Gujarat Titans will lock horns against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, on Friday in the 25th match of IPL 2026. After losing their opening two matches, GT have come back strongly, winning their last two games.

On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders are still looking for their first win of the season after five games. KKR have looked clueless with both bat and ball and they need to turn a corner. 

Ajinkya Rahane’s team was never in the run-chase of 193 against CSK in the last game as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals and could not get any impetus in their batting innings.

Furthermore, Varun Chakravarthy’s form is a cause of concern for the three-time champions. Not only has the mystery spinner been expensive, but he has also been wicketless in the tournament.

Meanwhile, Gujarat Titans are clicking as a unit, as the likes of Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler have delivered with the bat. Moreover, GT had come up with a collective bowling effort against LSG in the last game. Prasidh Krishna was the star of the show as he had returned with impressive figures of 4-28 in his quota of four overs.

Head to Head: Matches: 5, Won by GT: 3, Won by KKR: 1, No result: 1.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Blessing Muzarabani, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Kartik Tyagi, Saurabh Dubey, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Rachin Ravindra, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra

Gujarat Titans Squad: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, M Shahrukh Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Jason Holder, Luke Wood, Washington Sundar, Tom Banton, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Kumar Kushagra, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Brar, Nishant Sindhu, Ashok Sharma