With the mercury expected to cross 40 degrees Celsius in Ahmedabad for Gujarat Titans’ afternoon game against the Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League on Saturday, the host franchise announced that it was taking measures to ensure that fans travelling to the Narendra Modi Stadium would have a comfortable viewing experience.
The Gujarat Titans said they will be “enhancing fan comfort by providing mist fans in all sun-facing stands, along with sun screen and sun visors. Additionally, free drinking water, ORS, and mobile medical facilities”.
According to AccuWeather, the temperature for the day at Ahmedabad will be at its peak at 4 pm with temperature expected to be at 41 degrees Celsius. The humidity is also expected to be around 14 percent during the game.
Delhi Capitals are on top of the standings coming into the clash with 10 points from six games in IPL 2025. Gujarat Titans are, meanwhile, second with eight points. There are three more teams joining Gujarat on 8 points: Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants (before Friday’s IPL clash between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings.)
This season, the Narendra Modi Stadium has already hosted three IPL 2025 games and Gujarat have won two of them. They started their season with a narrow 11-run defeat to the Punjab Kings before beating Mumbai Indians by 36 runs and then the Rajasthan Royals by 58 runs.
The visiting team, Delhi Capitals, come into the game after a morale-boosting victory in the Super Over against Rajasthan Royals at home.
Gujarat Titans meanwhile are reeling with player issues: they saw South African pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada return home for personal reasons in the middle of the event and then were dealt with another blow as New Zealand star Glenn Phillips was ruled out of the event with a groin injury.
