Gujarat Titans in the IPL

A title at the first attempt

Gujarat Titans, based in Ahmedabad, were one of two franchises added for 2022. Before the mega auction they signed three players, Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan and Shubman Gill, then 22, and made Hardik captain. They won the title in their first season, beating Rajasthan in the final, with Hardik taking three wickets and named player of the match, and reached the final again in 2023, losing to Chennai off the last ball.

Built on bowling

No franchise in this archive has spent a larger share of its auction money on bowlers. Lockie Ferguson, bought for ₹10 crore, and Mohammed Shami were early buys, and Rahul Tewatia, an uncapped all-rounder bought for ₹9 crore in 2022, won them matches with his hitting at the end of the innings. The approach was a team built to defend totals, with much of the batting from Gill, Hardik and David Miller.

After Hardik

In late 2023 Hardik was traded back to Mumbai, and Gill became captain. Gujarat spent the most at the 2024 auction and missed the playoffs that season. Before the 2025 mega auction they kept Gill, Rashid, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia and Shahrukh Khan, and bought Jos Buttler and Mohammed Siraj.

Gujarat in CricArcade

In IPL Dynasty you can start Gujarat in 2022 and try to repeat a first-season title.

Finds and revivals

Gujarat's cheaper buys have produced some of their best seasons. Mohammed Shami, bought for ₹6.25 crore in 2022, took 20 wickets in the title season. David Miller, bought for ₹3 crore, scored 481 runs. Most striking of all, Mohit Sharma, who had gone unsold in 2022, was bought for ₹50 lakh at the 2023 auction and took 27 wickets.

Shubman Gill, one of the three players signed before the first auction, became the league's leading run-scorer in 2023 and captain the year after. The franchise plays at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the largest cricket ground in the world, which also hosted the 2022 and 2023 finals.

Gujarat by the numbers

Gujarat have been in the league only since 2022, so they have been through two mega auctions and three mini auctions. Their average price per player bought is among the highest in the archive, because a young franchise has more gaps to fill and fewer cheap squad players already in place. They were the biggest spenders at the 2024 auction, rebuilding after Hardik Pandya left.

More than half of all Gujarat's auction money has gone on bowlers, the highest share of any franchise. Their record buys, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj and Kagiso Rabada at the 2025 mega auction, show the balance shifting towards an established overseas batter at the top of the order.

Hardik's team

Gujarat's first two seasons belonged to Hardik Pandya. Signed before the first auction and made captain, he batted in the top order, bowled when fit and led a side that won ten of its fourteen league matches in 2022. Rashid Khan gave them the league's most reliable spinner, and Shubman Gill a steady opener.

The 2023 final against Chennai was played on a reserve day after rain and decided off the final ball, and Gujarat lost it. Hardik's return to Mumbai before 2024 ended the first chapter; Gill, not yet 25, took over a franchise whose identity had been built around his predecessor, and Gujarat missed the playoffs in his first season as captain.

Gujarat have also been good at finding young Indian batters. Sai Sudharsan was bought uncapped for ₹20 lakh in 2022, became a regular in the top order and was kept before the 2025 mega auction.

Gill's record season

Shubman Gill's 2023 season was one of the best by any batter in the league: 890 runs with three hundreds, including one in the second qualifier that took Gujarat to their second final. It was the kind of return franchises dream of from a player signed before the auction rather than bought in it, and it made him the obvious successor as captain when Hardik left.

Rashid Khan, the third of the original signings, has been Gujarat's constant: kept before both mega auctions and, in most seasons, their most economical bowler. He is one of very few overseas players to have been central to a franchise from its first match.

Reading Gujarat's tables

With five seasons in the league, Gujarat's tables are short, but they show a clear shape: large outlays at the two mega auctions, a big mini auction in 2024 after Hardik left, and smaller ones otherwise. The record buys are mostly bowlers and overseas batters, and the retention lists are built around Gill and Rashid. The season table records the title in the first season and the final in the second, a start no other franchise in the league's history has matched.