The sixth match of the Indian Premier League 2026 (IPL 2026) was played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). This match was played on 2 April at the historic Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata. This match was a high scoring match which Hyderabad was successful in winning by a huge margin. SRH was successful in winning this match by 65 runs. At the same time, one of the reasons for Kolkata’s defeat is that the old mistake weighed heavily on them.
This is KKR’s second consecutive defeat in IPL 2026. With this win, SRH opened its account in the points table. Hyderabad is now at sixth position with two points and a net run rate of +0.469. Losing by such a huge margin has hurt KKR’s net run rate, Kolkata’s net run rate is now -1.964.
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SRH innings
SRH, who came to bat first after losing the toss, had a tremendous start. In the powerplay, the team batted brilliantly and scored 84 runs losing only 1 wicket. There was a slight decline in the middle overs but the pace of scoring did not decrease. Between 7 and 15 overs, the team lost 3 wickets and added 84 runs.
Wickets kept falling continuously in the death overs but here too the batsmen did not stop scoring runs. Between 16 and 20 overs, SRH scored 58 runs losing 4 wickets. Due to this brilliant batting, Sunrisers Hyderabad made a big score of 226 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.
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Heinrich Klaasen scored the highest score of 52 runs for SRH. Abhishek Sharma scored 48 runs and Travis Head scored 46 runs. Whereas for KKR, Blessing Muzarabani took maximum 4 wickets. Vaibhav Arora took 2 wickets. Karthik Tyagi and Anukul Roy took 1 wicket each.
KKR innings
KKR started well but could not overtake SRH in the powerplay. In the first 6 overs the team scored 74 runs losing 3 wickets. After this KKR’s batting disintegrated. Between 7 and 15 overs, Kolkata lost 5 wickets and could add only 85 runs. As soon as the death overs started, the team lost 2 wickets in the first over and could score only 2 runs. The result was that Kolkata Knight Riders were all out for 161 runs in 16 overs and SRH won the match by 65 runs.
Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored the highest score of 52 runs for KKR. Rinku Singh scored 35 runs, while Finn Allen scored 28 runs in 7 balls. Jaydev Unadkat took maximum three wickets for SRH. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Ishan Malinga took two wickets each. Harsh Dubey took one wicket.
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KKR repeated the old mistake
In this match, KKR once again repeated the same mistake which they made during Mumbai Indians. In the powerplay against Mumbai Indians, Kolkata had scored 80 runs without losing any wicket. In this match also, KKR took only one wicket in the powerplay and gave 84 runs to SRH. Apart from this, there were 2 runouts during Kolkata’s batting. Which shows that there was a lack of communication between the team. It was also clearly visible that KKR could not bear the pressure of run chase for a big score.
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