Kolkata, April 2: Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad face off with both teams eager to register their first win of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026on Thursday at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. KKR Captain Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and has gone by the trend of the season and has opted to bowl first. All the teams chasing the target have won all the games so far in the IPL 2026 season.
KKR have entered the contest with the same team. After slow starts to their campaigns, both sides will be looking to make a strong statement, making the toss and team combinations crucial in setting the tone for the contest.
Squads
Kolkata Knight Riders
Ajinkya Rahane (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (w), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Blessing Muzarabani, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Kartik Tyagi, Anukul Roy, Saurabh Dubey, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Rachin Ravindra, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Ishan Kishan (c & w), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Liam Livingstone, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Shivam Mavi, Brydon Carse, David Payne, Eshan Malinga, Aniket Verma, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Smaran Ravichandran, Sakib Hussain, Zeeshan Ansari, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar
