KKR vs GT Highlights, IPL 2026: Allen, Raghuvanshi, Green half-centuries key as KKR defeat GT by 29 runs

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: A short ball by Arshad, and Allen smokes it over long leg for a six, pulled with ease! Then its back of a length, at the stumps, slammed wide of midwicket for another six! Arshad responds with a dot but Allen doesn't stop. He clatters the next ball over deep square leg for a six and then its another dot. Over ends with a four, 22 off this over!

KKR - 138/1 (11)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Kishore overpitches his ball, and its full. Allen hammers it over long on for a six. Then he takes a single, followed by the bowler getting a dot. Then he overpitches it, Raghuvanshi launches him over long on for a six!

KKR - 116/1 (10)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: A slot delivery by Holder and Allen slams it over long on for a six, and then its back-to-back singles as they get their fifty partnership. Holder responds with a dot and then Allen creams him over deep square leg, pulled, for a six!

KKR - 100/1 (9)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: DROPPED! A short delivery from Holder and Allen pulls it, goes to long-on and Siraj drops it! MAKES A TOTAL MESS! Then Raghuvanshi slams Holder for a six, to backward square leg!

KKR - 67/1 (7)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: A full delivery by Rabada, with pace. Raghuvanshi goes forward and scoops it over fine leg for a six! WHAT A SHOT! Rabada responds with a single. Powerplay ends!

KKR - 56/1 (6)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: OUT!

An inswinger from Siraj. It is full and on good length. Rahane fails to connect and doesn't read it well. It hits the stumps!

Rahane b Siraj 14 (14)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: A full delivery by Rabada and Allen smacks it over long off for a six! In the next ball, he pulls him over deep midwicket for another six and then takes a single. Over ends with back-to-back dots.

KKR - 39/0 (4)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: A length delivery by Rabada, and its short. Rahane waits and then cuts it over third man for a six. Then he takes a single. Rabada ends the over with a length delivery, angling in. Allen flicks it through backward square leg for a single.

KKR - 13/0 (2)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Siraj begins with a length delivery, onto the pads. Rahane guides it to backward square leg for a single, followed by Allen also taking a single. Siraj responds with back-to-back dots and then Rahane hits him to deep backward point for another single. Over ends with a double, Rahane edged it past the wicketkeeper.

KKR - 5/0 (1)

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Action begins! Rahane and Allen open for KKR. Siraj to bowl the first over for GT.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: KKR - Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Cameron Green, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakaravarthy, Saurabh Dubey, Kartik Tyagi

GT - Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: After winning the toss, GT skipper Gill said, “We are gonna bowl first. There was a little bit of rain yesterday. We are hoping that it'll get better in the second innings. Our bowling unit has been top-notch. The momentum is with us. This is not the time to take any team lightly. You get one extra match if you finish in the top-two. Same team.”

Meanwhile, KKR captain Rahane said, “Taking one game at a time. We have to win three games and see what happens. We've been playing really good cricket, the last five games. We were looking to field as well. There's a little bit of mositure. I don't think it'll change too much. Varun comes in, Varun is fit.”

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Toss time! Both Rahane and Gill are in the middle. Rahane flips the coin, Gill calls for heads. It is heads, Gill opts to bowl.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Toss is coming up folks! We will soon see both captains take centre stage.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: At one point of the season, one would have thought that KKR would be the first team to fall out of the playoffs race. But they have managed to hang on. They managed to get a four-match unbeaten run and it could have been five, but RCB denied it. Now they have a mathematical chance to qualify for the playoffs, but also need to win their remaining games and depend on other results to go their way.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: KKR bowlers have found it tough in the powerplay this season. Speaking ahead of the match, KKR pacer Tyagi said, “The powerplay has been a bit challenging for us this year, but we're always looking to take wickets early so that it becomes easier for the spinners coming in to bowl in the middle overs. Sending Shubman and Sai Sudarshan back to the pavilion in the power play will be a huge advantage for us.”

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Rahane's form faltered after a strong start to his season, where got a 67 vs MI. He has registered two ducks, two single-digit scores and has crossed the 20-run mark only four times. KKR have gotten the 50-run mark in powerplay only six times this season and Rahane's strike rate in that phase is 131.19. He will face Siraj in the powerplay tonight. Siraj has dismissed him twice in the IPL and has conceded only 19 runs in eight innings.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Holder has an economy rate of 5.1 in death overs, which the best for any bowler with more than two overs in IPL 2026. In that phase, he has also taken four wickets. GT bowlers have taken the most wickets in the powerplay too (25), and have the best economy rate (8.6) in that phase. Rabada has the most powerplay wickets (16) this season.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Narine is on course to become the first overseas player to get to 200 IPL matches tonight. It will also be KKR's 100th IPL game at the Eden Gardens, only the second team after RCB at Chinnaswamy Stadium to play 100 games at a venue.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: If Varun is included in the playing XI tonight, he will have a key match-up with GT's Buttler. In T20s, Buttler has registered 88 off 61 balls against Varun, striking at 144.26. Meanwhile, Varun has dismissed him seven times.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Varun missed KKR's last match due to a niggle. He was bowling in the nets on the eve of the game. The medical team and coaching staff are observing him closely and its not yet confirmed if he will play tonight.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Sundar has been key to GT's revival this season, and has been good with the bat in the middle order. He has managed 296 runs in 12 innings, his best IPL season in terms of runs, with a strike rate of 152.57. He has also dominated in death overs hitting, getting the fourth most runs from overs 17-20 this seaon (121), striking at 180.59.

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Saurabh Dubey, Ramandeep Singh, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Tim Seifert, Varun Chakaravarthy, Blessing Muzarabani, Matheesha Pathirana, Umran Malik, Rahul Tripathi, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Daksh Kamra

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Glenn Phillips, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Anuj Rawat, Kumar Kushagra, Shahrukh Khan, Ashok Sharma, Luke Wood, Connor Esterhuizen, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Kulwant Khejroliya, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Brar

KKR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Welcome to our live coverage of today's IPL 2026 fixture in Kolkata as KKR face GT. For GT, it will be all about getting the win as it will make them the first team to qualify for the playoffs. Meanwhile for KKR, its about survival.