Kolkata Knight Riders will face Sunrisers Hyderabad in the sixth match of IPL 2026 at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Thursday. This will be the first home fixture for KKR and it would be interesting to note if they get the pitch they would want, which hasn’t been the case in the last couple of seasons.

On the other hand, SRH head coach Daniel Vettori admitted they didn’t bowl well against RCB after they could not defend 202 in their opening game. SRH’s bowling looked toothless and they would want to turn a corner in the absence of Pat Cummins.

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Liam Livingstone will play his 50th IPL game.

Heinrich Klaasen needs 10 sixes to complete 100 maximums in the IPL.

KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane will play his 200th IPL game.

Rinku Singh needs nine 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.

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

Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, David Payne, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Shivang Kumar, Liam Livingstone, Smaran Ravichandran, Sakib Hussain, Shivam Mavi, Zeeshan Ansari, Kamindu Mendis, Brydon Carse, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar