Kolkata Knight Riders Defeated Gujarat Titans by 29 runs in the 60th match of the 2026 Indian Premier League at Eden Gardens.
When invited to bat, Knight Riders made a bright start and reached 56-1 by the end of the powerplay. They lost captain Ajinkya Rahane cheaply, but finn allen Also motorized. Once the powerplay was completed, Elyan took on the Titans bowlers and brought up his half-century off 21 balls in the eighth over. Off his next 13 balls, he scored 43 runs as he went after the Titans bowlers ruthlessly. He was out after scoring 93 runs in 35 balls, which set the stage for the Knight Riders.
From there, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who played second fiddle to Allen, took over as the lead batsman. He received full support from Cameron Green and the pair kept going and added an unbeaten partnership of 108 runs off just 53 balls. Raghuvanshi completed his half-century in 32 balls, after which he played an unbeaten inning of 82 runs in 44 balls in the death overs. Green remained unbeaten on 52 off 28 balls as the three-time champions finished on a mammoth score of 247/2.
Titans made a great start to their innings Sai Sudarshan The Knight Riders bowlers started attacking at the very beginning of the powerplay. Sudarshan suffered an elbow injury, due to which he had to retire in the third over itself. Nishant Sindhu, batting at number three, was dismissed cheaply, bringing out the experienced Jos Buttler, who along with Titans captain Shubman Gill resumed their innings with a challenging score.
The pair put on an impressive partnership of 128 runs from 73, but seemed unable to keep up the scoring rate. Gill was out after scoring 85 runs in 49 balls and Butler was out after scoring 57 runs in 35 balls. Finally Sudarshan came to bat and remained unbeaten after scoring 53 runs on 28 balls. Sunil NarinePlaying his 200th IPL game, he finished with impressive figures of 2 for 29 as the Knight Riders kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a dominant win.
The three-time champions are now seventh on the table with 11 points from 12 games. They will need to win their last two matches to make it to the playoffs and hope the results go in their favour. Titans are second with 16 points from 13 games, needing to win their last game to regain the lead in the table.
Here are the most important stats and milestones from Match 60:
- Sunil Narine:First foreign player to play 200 IPL games
- Sunil Narine: Fourth player to play 200 matches for the same IPL team
- Kolkata Knight Riders: Second team to play 100 matches at the same IPL venue – Eden Gardens
- Kolkata Knight Riders: Jointly second most sixes in an innings of IPL – 22
- Kolkata Knight Riders: Third highest score in IPL- 247/2
- joint-max 50+ scores in an IPL innings for KKR: 3
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi:Joint second highest 50+ scores for KKR in a season: 5
- Shubman Gill: Consecutive 500+ run seasons as captain (two)
- finn allen: 5500 runs completed in T20 cricket
- cameron green: 1000 runs completed in Indian Premier League
- Sai Sudarshan: 3000 T20 runs completed
- Sai Sudarshan:Fastest to 3000 T20 runs by innings – 78
- Shubman Gill: 3000 runs completed for GT
- Mohammad Siraj: 200 T20 wickets completed
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