Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Match: Angkrish Raghuvanshi (59 off 47 balls) and Ajinkya Rahane (43) guided Kolkata Knight Riders to a seven-wicket victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad to prevent SRH from winning their sixth game in a row and rising to the top of the IPL 2026 standings.
In the first innings, for the first time in IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad lost all their 10 wickets while for the first time in IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders managed to scuttle out an opposition and take all 10 wickets. Sunrisers Hyderabad slumped from 105/1 to 165 all out at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad.
After Abhishek Sharma departed early, Travis Head smashed his way to a 28-ball 61 against the Kolkata Knight Riders to help Sunrisers Hyderabad cross the 100-run mark in the 9th over. But after that, Sunrisers Hyderabad lost quick wickets: in fact, SRH slumped from 105/1 to 156/9. Pat Cummins’s Sunrisers Hyderabad opted to bat first in the afternoon game against Ajinkya Rahane’s Kolkata Knight Riders in the first game of double-header Sunday in the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL).
KKR also seem to have found their feet after a horror start in which they were without a win for six games. It remains to be seen if it was all too little too late but KKR do come into this match having won both of their previous two fixtures. For them to make it to the playoffs from here, though, they will have to win practically every match and then hope for other results to go their way. They may have played only eight games this season but KKR are already in a zone where every match they play is a must-win.