KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Highlights: KKR bowlers decimate SRH batting, complete dominant 80-run victory

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Strong end for KKR! Simarjeet comes on, and his short length is handled well by Rahane and Raghuvanshi. A couple of pull shots off the hips, both sail over for six. KKR will be much happier with that. 53-2 at the end of the powerplay.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Shami bowling three up front, but Rahane gelling well to the pace of this pitch. Had a lovely backfoot pickup against Cummins for six in the previous over, and it's off the front foot against Shami on this occasion.

Raghuvanshi with a boundary on the last ball, 38-2 after five overs.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Oh no no no KKR, it's happening again! Narine departs next. Very full from Shami, Narine was making room. He tries to jam it down, but it's a thick edge, and a lovely low catch by Klaasen.

16/2 now, great start for SRH. Angkrish Raghuvanshi joins Rahane at the crease.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Poor from Quinton de Kock! The short ball is telegraphed with two boundary riders at deep square and fine leg. QDK goes for the pull, it's not a great bouncer, but he doesn't get enough. Gobbled up by the man at deep square leg.

14/1. KKR with another early wicket lost.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Narine knew what to expect, slightly dug in on the off stump. He just clears a leg and whacks it over midwicket, soars over the ropes.

Next one is at his toes, Narine can't get anything on it as it passes harmlessly through to Klaasen.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Much better from Shami from over the wicket. Hitting a length, not allowing de Kock to open his arms or play that pickup. Beats the outside edge with the last ball of the over.

7-0 after the first. Captain Cummins from the other end.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Mohammed Shami to get us going around the wicket to QDK, and it's not ideal as he sprays it down the leg-side. Klaasen good with the gloves to stop five wides — but can't stop the next one, as it tickles De Kock's pads and runs away past fine leg. Shami shifts to over the wicket.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Couple of notable changes for these two teams as we approach the first ball. KKR, batting first, have subbed out Spencer Johnson for Moeen Ali. Vaibhav Arora will still likely be the impact sub.

Meanwhile, SRH bring in Kamindu Mendis, and it will be interesting to see where he bats. This means no Adam Zampa for them today, but Travis Head certain to come on to open for their chase. A little light in the spin department, potentially?

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score:

Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aniket Verma, Kamindu Mendis, Pat Cummins (c), Harshal Patel, Simarjeet Singh, Mohammed Shami, Zeeshan Ansari

Subs: Abhinav Manohar, Jaydev Unadkat, Travis Head, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: The playing XI and bench options for KKR:

Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy

Subs: Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: So Sunrisers chasing for the first time in this tournament and hoping for a change in fortunes. Rahane confirms he would have bowled first as well — doesn't sound too happy with the pitch, but Moeen Ali does come in for Spencer Johnson as an extra spin option.

Team news next.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Nearly time for the toss at the Eden Gardens now, and expect the toss-winning captain to opt to chase, with humidity and dew definitely playing a role. But SRH do like to bat first, so you never know.

Can the Kolkata faithful see their team bounce back from their opening day loss? Can SRH finally get one over on their nemesis from last year?

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: KKR's top order was decimated by the likes of Trent Boult and Ashwani Kumar, with Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock, Iyer, and Rahane all failing to have an impact.

SRH's pace bowling currently concedes over 11 runs per over, but they will really need to hone in if they want to keep the pressure on against a destructive KKR top order. They know the vulnerabilities of these batters, it is just about execution at the crunch moments.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Klaasen's quality against spin really comes through when you see how he deals with two spinners even of their quality. In 42 deliveries against Narine and Chakravarthy, the Protean wicketkeeper has scored 69 runs in the IPL, only being dismissed once.

Nevertheless, a key focus for the spinners will also be to dislodge Travis Head or Abhishek Sharma in the powerplay. Varun could be introduced early, as he was in the CT semifinal against Head. The trick worked for India that day: will it work for KKR now?

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Heinrich Klaasen is one of the most dangerous and destructive batters against spin in world cricket. Equally, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy are two of the craftiest spinners. This mini-battle in SRH's batting innings could very well come to define the game, with their ability to keep Klaasen quiet, or Klaasen's ability to knock them out of the attack, likely to swing momentum heavily one way or the other.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: After their opening loss to RCB, Ajinkya Rahane asked for more spin friendly pitches to assist KKR's world class spin duo at home. His request was turned down by head curator Sujan Mukherjee, but it does seem as if KKR will receive their wishes ultimately. It's a side-plot worth keeping an eye on, especially with the key battle that awaits in the spin department.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: SRH's bowling unit has flattered to deceive in their three matches so far. They conceded 240+ against RR, and then had 190+ vs LSG and 160+ vs DC chased down in 16 overs respectively.

Despite names such as Pat Cummins, Mohammed Shami, and Adam Zampa, SRH have been expensive and ineffective with the ball. After a certain point, the batting can only be expected to do so much: they won't score 280 every game.

KKR has a powerful batting unit hungry for some form, and SRH will need to try to be clinical in such a match.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: KKR have a tall left-hander of their own who has been struggling, and the pressure on the shoulders of Venkatesh Iyer is immense. Paid 23.75 crore to retain his services in the auction, he is expected to perform at the level dictated by one of the highest paychecks in IPL history.

He showed that quality against SRH in the playoffs, but he will have to earn it by replicating it with consistency across a full season. Can that journey start with another match against SRH to spur it forward?

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: One of the keys to SRH's success last year was the development of Abhishek Sharma into one of Indian cricket's bonafide young stars. So far in IPL 2025, however, he's been kept quiet: only 31 runs in three innings, and an unceremonious first-over run-out against DC.

Abhishek hasn't quite arrived for SRH, and the key for them will be how good a platform he can set alongside Travis Head. Can he hit his first six of the IPL season at the Eden Gardens?

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: Captain Ajinkya Rahane was brutally honest after KKR's loss against MI, calling their performance a ‘collective batting failure’ and demanding more application. Despite KKR's depth and ability throughout the lineup, they only managed 116 in their first innings. Rahane is aware his team has far too much quality for such performances, it just remains to be seen whether his teammates can rise up to the challenge he has laid down.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: The IPL does move fast. Just about two weeks into this year's tournament, last year's finalists are closer to the bottom of the table than the top.

In fact, KKR are dead last, although they are tied on 2 points with 5 other teams. Their net run rate hit leaves them bottom, but they could climb very quickly. SRH, meanwhile, are currently eighth, but it's a similar story for them.

That's the good news: this early in the season, the table doesn't mean much. But neither of these teams will want to suffer a third loss out of four.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: SRH's last match, against DC on Sunday, was a story of DC just outdoing their opponents in all three departments. An early run-out of Abhishek Sharma led to four powerplay wickets for SRH, and despite a valiant effort by Aniket Verma, 163 was never going to be enough.

Subpar new ball bowling and some sloppy fielding meant DC subjected SRH to a loss inside 16 overs of the chase. KKR not the only ones coming off a brutal defeat.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: KKR will quickly want to forget about what happened at the Wankhede Stadium earlier this week. Bowled out for 116, KKR's batters imploded in a way you wouldn't expect from a batting lineup that strong. It took MI only 77 deliveries to chase down that target, and KKR will be glad it's a quick turnaround to try and get back to winning ways after that NRR-demolishing loss.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: News only gets better for KKR at home, where they have only lost to SRH on three occasions, and been triumphant seven times. Despite the ongoing feud between the franchise as the head curator at the Eden Gardens, they do still have a big home advantage to live up to when the game begins today.

KKR vs SRH, IPL 2025 Live Score: In one of the more lopsided rivalries in the history of the IPL, KKR have tended to have the rub of green over Hyderabad in their contests. In 28 matches since SRH's induction into the IPL, KKR have won more than twice as many matches as SRH, leading 19-9.

This included all three matches last year — in their regular season thriller, in qualifier one, as well as the final.