Kolkata Knight Riders will square off 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 the 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. 

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Rinku Singh needs five fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament.

Sunil Narine needs 11 fours to complete 200 boundaries in the IPL.

Matheesha Pathirana needs three wickets to complete 50 scalps in the tournament.

Rachin Ravindra needs 10 fours to complete 50 boundaries in the IPL.

Manish Pandey needs 58 runs to reach the 4000-run mark in the IPL.

LSG opener Aiden Markram needs four runs to complete 1500 runs in the IPL.

Ayush Badoni needs 25 runs to complete 1000 runs in the IPL.

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