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Kolkata Knight Riders kept alive their play-offs hopes as they beat Gujarat Titans by 29 runs in a Tata IPL 2026 encounter at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Earlier GT won the toss an opted to bowl first.
KKR put into bat lost skipper Ajinkya Rahane early for run a ball 14 . But the dangerous Kiwi Finn Allen exploded in his inmitable style and blasted a superb 93 off 35 balls . Unfortunate to miss a hundred Allen smashed 10 sixes and four fours in his carnage with an astonishing strike rate of 265.7 . Allen got support from young Angkrish Raghuvanshi was impressed scoring unbetaen 82 ( 44 balls , 4 fours, 7 sixes). Aussie Cameron Green was also brilliant smashing a quick 28 ball unbeaten 52 ( 3 fours, 4 sixes) as KKR finished strongly at an imposing 247/2 in their 20 overs.
Clean hitting at a strike rate of 265.7 🤯
Finn Allen leaves us all awestruck with his 93 (35) 👏💜
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GT were sloppy in the fied with some dropped catches that proved costly at the end . The GT bowling too which has been impressive so far expecially the pacers were bit off line and length this time around and hence went for runs.
Gujarat Titans Bowling : Mohammed Siraj 1/50 ( 4 overs), Kagiso Rabada 0/40 ( 4 overs), Jason Holder 0/39 ( 4 overs), Rashid Khan 0/57 ( 4 overs) hopw often have one seen such figures from him. Sai Kishore 1/38 ( 3 overs), Arshad Khan 0/22 ( 1 over)
In reply GT lost Nishant Sindhu 1 , who came in place of retired hurt Sai Sudharsan. Skipper Shubman Gill played yet another fine knock 85 ( 49 balls , 5 fours , 7 sixes ) , Jos Buttler hit 57 ( 35 balls , 5 fours , 2 sixes). Rahul Tewatia 2 was out off the last ball of the innings bolwed by Cameron Green. Sai Sudharsan who came back to bat again remained unbeaten on 53 ( 28 balls , 6 fours, 3 sixes) and GT could manage 218/4 in their 20 overs.
200 matches done and the batters are still trying to solve the mystery! 🪄
Sunil Narine strikes first ball 💜
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KKR Bowling : Sunil Narine was the pick with 2/29 ( 4 overs), Saurabh Dubey 1/23 ( 2. 3 overs), Cameron Green 1/25 ( 3 overs), Kartik Tyagi 0/59 ( 4 overs) was off target. Matheesha Pathirana 0/9 (1.2 overs), Varun Chakaravarthy 0/47 ( 4 overs), Anukul Roy 0/17 ( 1 over)
Match: IPL 2026, 60th Match
Venue: Kolkata | Date: May 16, 2026
