Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns against Lucknow Super Giants in the 15th match of IPL 2026 at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Thursday. KKR have lost two games, whereas their last match against Punjab Kings was abandoned due to rain.
On the other hand, Lucknow Super Giants lost their opening clash against Delhi Capitals but bounced back stronger to win their next game against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Mohammed Shami was the star of the show as he returned with impressive figures of 2-9 in his quota of four overs, bamboozling SRH openers – Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head – with slower deliveries.
Furthermore, Rishabh Pant scored a match-winning knock of 68 runs off 50 balls in the run chase of 157 while batting at number three, which would give him a lot of confidence.
Meanwhile, KKR have not been clinical with the ball, and they surprisingly left out Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy in the last game against PBKS from their playing XI. There are a lot of question marks hanging in the KKR’s dressing room and they need to finds quick solutions before it gets too late in the season.
Ajinkya Rahane will need to lead from the front and be aggressive with the bat even after the Powerplay overs.
Head to Head: Matches: 6, Won by LSG: 4, Won by KKR: 2.
Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Matthew Breetzke, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anrich Nortje, Himmat Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis, Naman Tiwari, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Prabhu Yadav, Akash Maharaj Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohsin Khan, Wanindu Hasaranga
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Navdeep Saini, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Blessing Muzarabani, Manish Pandey, Tejasvi Dahiya, Saurabh Dubey, Sunil Narine, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Rachin Ravindra, Prashant Solanki, Varun Chakaravarthy, Matheesha Pathirana, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra
