There is something about the Narendra Modi Stadium that brings out the very best in Shubman Gill and Thursday night was no different. With KKR setting a target of 181 after choosing to bat first, Gujarat Titans needed a captain's knock to get the job done and their skipper delivered exactly that, 86 off 50 balls, his 27th T20 innings at this ground, his stats here now reading 1,369 runs at an average of 59.52 and a strike rate of 165.53. GT won with two balls to spare to claim their third consecutive victory of IPL 2026 while KKR remain pointless, still searching for their first win of the season after five matches and sliding deeper into a crisis that is beginning to look very difficult to reverse. Cameron Green's heroics not enough for KKR KKR elected to bat first and were in immediate trouble when Ajinkya Rahane fell for a golden duck off the very first ball he faced from Mohammed Siraj, caught at slip by Kagiso Rabada. Angkrish Raghuvanshi went cheaply for 8 and Tim Seifert added 19 before the innings threatened to completely unravel at 32 for 3. What saved KKR from total embarrassment was Cameron Green, who finally delivered the kind of innings that justifies his INR 25.20 crore price tag, 79 off 55 balls with seven fours and four sixes, the most important knock he has played since arriving in this tournament. He found support from Rovman Powell who made a brisk 27 off 20 and Ramandeep Singh who crunched 17 off just 8 balls in the lower order, but Green was the one holding the innings together for the crucial middle period. The final total of 180 was competitive but felt about 15 runs short of what a team defending at the Narendra Modi Stadium would ideally want. Rabada was GT's pick of the bowlers with 3 for 29 and Siraj took two wickets to remove both openers cheaply. Shubman Gill takes GT home with a captain's masterclass The chase began in exactly the manner GT needed, Sai Sudharsan and Gill putting on 57 for the first wicket at better than a run a ball to set the platform. Sudharsan fell for 22 in the sixth over but by then Gill had found his rhythm and was playing with the kind of unhurried authority that defines his batting at this ground. He brought up his fifty off just 27 balls and kept accelerating as the innings progressed, 39 runs against pace at a strike rate of 185.71 and 47 against spin at 162.06, dominating every type of bowling equally. Jos Buttler chipped in with a useful 25 off 15 before Varun Chakravarthy, brought on as KKR's impact player substitution, took two wickets to drag the game back slightly. Washington Sundar contributed 13 and Glenn Phillips made 19 to keep the required rate under control but it was always Gill's chase to finish. He was eventually dismissed for 86 in the 17th over by Vaibhav Arora but by then GT needed just 23 off 19 balls, a task Rahul Tewatia and Shahrukh Khan completed without drama to seal a five-wicket win with two balls remaining. Also READ: Hero to Zero: Rinku Singh's Ahmedabad Story goes from five sixes in 2023 to a two-ball duck in 2026 KKR's crisis deepens and questions are getting louder Five matches played. Zero wins. KKR sit tenth in the table and the situation is becoming genuinely alarming. Rahane's golden duck tonight was his second single-digit score in a row and the top order collapses have been a recurring theme throughout the season. The bowling attack has shown improvement, Varun Chakravarthy's two wickets tonight suggest he is finding his touch after injury and Narine was tidy with 1 for 28, but conceding 181 on a ground where the dimensions are large enough to contain teams if the lengths are right suggests the issues run deeper than personnel. Green's 79 was the one genuine positive but KKR need that kind of innings from him in every game while also getting contributions from the top order, and right now those contributions are simply not coming. With Rajasthan Royals and then a string of difficult fixtures ahead, the pressure on Ajinkya Rahane and the KKR management to turn things around is at its most intense point of the entire season.