IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Highlights: Shubman Gill stars against old team as GT wrap up dominant 39-run win to extend lead

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Just like that, Sudharsan back with the orange cap with a gentle nudge for one. Next ball he faces, easily controlled through the offside gap against Moeen for four.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Vaibhav keeping it tight. Only concedes four off the first, a wide and three singles.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: One of the most intimidating sights in this IPL, two openers bang in form. Sudharsan to take strike and Gill opposite him. Vaibhav Arora with the new pill.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: QDK axed from the team after a string of disastrous performances. Nortje also sacrificed to bring in Moeen, extra spin and extra bat.

KKR playing XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy

Bench: Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Washington Sundar back in for GT to offer an extra spin option.

GT's playing XI: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler, Sherfane Rutherford, Washington Sundar, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj

Bench: Ishant Sharma, Karim Janat, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat, Arshad Khan

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Ajinkya Rahane wins the toss to the great pleasure of the Eden Gardens crowd, and opts to chase, but a couple of big decisions from them. Quinton de Kock sees himself dropped after a strange start, Rahmanullah Gurbaz coming in, and Moeen Ali to boost the batting and spin as well.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Another issue for KKR has been an inability to settle on an overseas combination, with Spencer Johnson, Moeen Ali, and latest Anrich Nortje shuttling in and out of that fourth overseas player role. Today, do they want to extra batting boost of Moeen, the seam of Nortje, or the leftyness of Johnson to target Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan early?

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Not too far away from the toss in Kolkata now. A brief weather report: it's expected to be pretty warm for most of the evening, around 35 degrees at start, and humidity above 75% for much of the night. As sticky as can get.

The pitch itself is expected to be high-scoring and pretty flat, with the team defending winning twice in three matches in IPL 2025 so far. Nevertheless, teams do prefer to chase at this venue, and it will likely be more of the same for two teams whose strengths lie in that department.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Questions have begun to emerge about whether Rashid Khan is just going through an extended rough patch, or if he is just in decline after close to a decade of top-level cricket. He doesn't have the same zip and persistent ability to hit a spot that he used to, nor the same bravado and confidence that had the ability to elevate his game even further. The latter just comes with momentum from performances, but Rashid is struggling to find that.

He was used as GT's sole spinner against DC, with Sai Kishore only bowling a solitary over. Is it time for a role shift in which Rashid plays more of a supporting role, until he can find his best again with rhythm? A head-scratcher for analysts and GT management.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Fresh off a four-fer where he snapped up KL Rahul, Axar Patel and Karun Nair, Prasidh Krishna has hit a real peak int erms of his performances. He is looking fast, accurate, and nearly impossible to deal with, consistently hitting that back-of-a-length mark that with his height and tall action has gotten 14 different batters in a tangle and out.

Now with the Purple Cap and supported remarkably well by Mohammed Siraj and Sai Kishore, Prasidh goes back to an old hunting ground, and will be trying to leave a mark of his own. He knows all about Eden Gardens from his years in Kolkata, and given the bowling form he is in, is one the KKR batters will need to be very wary of.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: KKR won't be competitive until their batting really comes to the party. Sunil Narine has always been a hit-or-miss opener, but with Quinton de Kock having no scores of substance outside his 97*, KKR have had poor starts across most of their games. Captain Rahane has led from the front with a few solid performances, but he hasn't been able to inspire the same from the batters around him.

Players such as Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, and Andre Russell really need to step up and carry some of the burden, with KKR really not doing the heavy lifting that will allow them to find those consistent wins. If they continue to fail at that, a bowling unit the quality of GT’s will have very little trouble.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: By the same measure, attacking and putting this GT big three under pressure is the name of the game for KKR. Thankfully for them, they know they have the resources to turn to, with 8 overs of Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy up Ajinkya Rahane's sleeves.

While all three of these batters are very confident agaisnt spin, they aren't necessarily the fastest scorers agaisnt the wicket-taking ones. Can KKR take advantage of that by piling the pressure on through the middle?

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: In seven matches thus far, there hasn't been a single game in which at least one of Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, or Jos Buttler haven't fired. Buttler was on it with a masterful 97* against a great bowling attack last time out, while Sai Sudharsan continues to fight for the Orange Cap.

This trio is essential to GT's hopes of success, but there is such quality and reliability across them that GT have found it to be a pretty safe bet to expect production out of them thus far. Can KKR challenge the middle order a touch more?

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: KKR have had nearly an entire week to stew in their disappointment of losing to Punjab Kings after failing to chase down 112, the record lowest total defended in IPL history. Usually players want to get back out there as soon as possible after such a loss, but KKR didn't have that luxury.

What would the mood have been like in the KKR camp in the following week? What are the things they would have tried to figure out to set their campaign back on track? There are more questions than answers at the minute, and that needs to change quickly.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: GT ran into their toughest competitors in this IPL season so far, as DC visisted Ahmedabad. It was a clinical and impressive performance across the board from GT to pull off the win in the last over, helped largely by Prasidh Krishna's 4-fer and Jos Buttler's 97*. However, it was the all-round gameplan coming to fruition that would have been the biggest tick mark for the GT team, as they always stayed one step ahead of DC on a tactical standpoint.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: It's certainly been a while. These two teams look very different to what they did in 2023, as is to be expected. Two years go to the week, GT chased down a target of 180 at Eden Gardens, a Rahmanullah Gurbaz 81(39) not being enough. Three wickets for Mohammed Shami and a quickfire half-century for Vijay Shankar helped Gujarat to a win inside 18 overs.

Can't read too much into it, this is back when Hardik Pandya and Nitish Rana were captaining the two teams. They start fresh.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Since GT's inception in 2022, these two teams have only faced off thrice - once in the inaugural year, twice in 2023, with their 2024 tie being abandoned without a ball bowled.

There's very little history to go on for these two teams from that perspective, but GT do have a slender lead in their head to head, having won two games and lost one. KKR looking to pull level today.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: One of the main storylines of this match will be Shubman Gill returning to Eden Gardens, this time as a captain of an opposing franchise. Released into the pre-auction draft for GT to snap up in their inaugural 2022 season, Gill and KKR have both seen trophy success in the three following years. Nevertheless, there is always the competitive incline at the highest level of the sport that will see Gill want to prove himself against a team that opted against retaining him. Can he show the fans at the Gardens what they will be missing out on, up close and personal?

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: It hasn't been a start to remember for the defending champions despite retaining much of their 2024 core. They have lost four matches and won only three thus far, leaving them on 6 points and a fair ways away from the top-half logjam in the IPL table. With several teams racking up the wins, this is already a must-win game for KKR. At least their pattern of results suggests a win.

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: Having beaten Delhi Capitals in what was a straight shootout for the top spot of the IPL table, GT are now looking nice and comfortable on 10 points and with a healthy NRR. Can they keep building on the momentum they have generated to become the first team to 12 in 2025?

IPL 2025, KKR vs GT Live Score: The IPL travels back to Kolkata and the Eden Gardens for a high-profile game, as the table topping Gujarat Titans try to extend their lead at the top of the table against the defending champions. It's not all smell-the-roses season for a KKR team struggling to find any consistency, but looking to bounce back from a humiliating loss.