IPL 2026, SRH vs KKR LIVE: SRH Beat KKR By 65 Runs

Head gone

Dangerous Travis Head gone after giving SRH a strong start, scoring a well-made 46 off 21 balls. SRH loses first wicket.

SRH: 82/1 after 5.4 overs.

SRH openers on a roll

SRH’s openers are off to a flying start, smashing 71 runs in the first five overs.

SRH: 71/0 in 5 overs.

50 up for SRH

50 up for Sunrisers in the 5th over.

SRH: 52/0 in 4.1 overs. 

Strong start for SRH

Travis Head is giving the start that Sunrisers Hyderabad needed.

SRH: 43/0 in 3 overs.

Good start for SRH

Good start for Sunrisers Hyderabad, scoring 22 runs of the first two overs.

Head-To-Head

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have met 30 times in the IPL so far. Of these encounters, SRH have won 10 matches, while KKR have emerged victorious on 20 occasions.

SRH Playing XI

SRH XI: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (c and wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, David Payne.

Substitutes: Harshal Patel, Liam Livingstone, Eshan Malinga, Smaran Ravichandran and Sakib Hussain.

KKR Playing XI

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Blessing Muzarabani.

Substitutes: Manish Pandey, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Singh, Saurabh Dubey and Rovman Powell

KKR opts to field first

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and chose to bowl first against SunRisers Hyderabad at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.