Now that every T20 Cricket team in the IPL 2026 has played, the herd will start thinning itself out. The sixth match of the tournament will be Blessing Muzarabani and the Kolkata Knight Riders vs Ishan Kishan and the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
The beginning of the season for any sports league can be challenging, as teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB can attest. Luckily for the IPL, a 14-match season isn’t as much of a grind as some other seasons in other sports.
Here are live updates for today’s cricket match between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Sunrisers Hyderabad. Also included are the match squads and a few predictions.
Final Score: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad T20 Cricket Match (April 2, 2026)
*Sunrisers Hyderabad win by 65 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders: 161/10 in 16 overs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 226/8 in 20 overs.
Both teams have confirmed their playing XI (see below).
*KKR win the toss and have decided to bowl.
Player of the Match Award For SRH vs KKR April 2nd Match
The Player of the Match award was given to Nitish Kumar Reddy.
Nitish put together a great all-rounder performance. In two overs, he finished with 2/17 figures, five dots, and an 8.50 Economy. When he was behind the bat, he recorded 39 runs in addition to four fours and one six on 24 deliveries.
CONFIRMED Playing XI’s
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
- A. Sharma, T. Head, I. Kishan (c and wk), H. Klaasen, A. Verma, N. Kumar Reddy, S. Arora, H. Dubey, S. Kumar, J. Unadkat, D. Payne
Kolkata Knight Riders
- A. Rahane (c), C. Green, A. Raghuvanshi (wk), R. Singh, R. Singh, A. Roy, S. Narine, V. Chakaravarthy, V. Arora, K. Tyagi, B. Muzarabani.
IPL 2026 Squads For KKR vs SRH
Both the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Kolkata Knight Riders have plenty of players to choose from in this T20 cricket match. Here are the squads for both teams.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
- Batters: Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, & Rovman Powell.
- All-Rounders: Anukul Roy, Cameron Green, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Ramandeep Singh, & Sunil Narine.
- Bowlers: Blessing Muzarabani, Vaibhav Arora, Matheesha Pathirana, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Saurabh Dubey, Navdeep Saini, Umran Malik, & Varun Chakaravarthy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad
- Batters: Ishan Kishan, Aniket Verma, Smaran Ravichandran, Salil Arora, Heinrich Klaasen, & Travis Head.
- All-Rounders: Harshal Patel, Kamindu Mendis, Harsh Dubey, Brydon Carse, Shivang Kumar, Krains Fuletra, Liam Livingstone, David Payne, Abhishek Sharma, & Nitish Kumar Reddy.
- Bowlers: Pat Cummins, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Sakib Hussain, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Praful Hinge, & Shivam Mavi.
Some KKR vs SRH Predictions
- Crictracker predicts that KKR will win today’s match.
- Google win probability: KKR – 53 %, SRH – 47 %
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