- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.3 Siraj knocks him over, and out comes the SIIIUUU-lebration It's a 200th T20 wicket for Siraj and it's brought up in some style. Fuller this time, hint of shape away, but it just seams in a touch. Rahane plays all around it as he tries to whip it away and he turns around to watch his middle stump out of the ground 44/111.2 got him!! Allen looks up to wonder why?! Rashid takes it on the edge of the deep-midwicket boundary. SK tossed this ball up, and went slow and full on leg. Allen got his front leg out of the way and went heaving through the line, only to be caught this time 139/2Extras6 (lb 1, nb 1, w 4)TOTAL247/2 (20 Overs, RR: 12.35)Fall of wickets: 1-44 (Ajinkya Rahane, 4.3 ov), 2-139 (Finn Allen, 11.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Mohammed Siraj 4 0 50 1 12.5 8 4 3 3 0 K Rabada 4 0 40 0 10 10 0 5 1 0 JO Holder 4 0 39 0 9.75 5 1 3 0 1 Rashid Khan 4 0 57 0 14.25 4 5 4 0 0 R Sai Kishore 3 0 38 1 12.66 5 1 4 0 0 Arshad Khan 1 0 22 0 22 2 1 3 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR16.2 well-judged catch at fine leg!! Gill falls right after the break. Anukul at the boundary line tip-toed for a second, before completing the catch with a reverse cup. Gill has started to walk back, but the third umpire will still confirm the cleanliness of the catch. Anukul's back leg is extremely close to the boundary cushion, and the third umpire just wants to confirm if it tickled the boundary. Gill is made to wait. The third umpire wants to check different angles. He's finally satisfied, and rules Gill out. Gill went for the slog sweep off this length delivery, but fell short barely by a centimetre. That's how fine the margins can be 177/24.1 And Narine strikes right away! Sindhu has miscued this straight to long-off. Tossed up full outside off, inviting him to take it on. Sindhu tries to go over long-off but can't quite get under it. Manish Pandey has to run in from the rope and take a low catch, and as one of the best fielders the IPL has seen, he makes no mistake 49/118.5 taken at long-off. Buttler knew he was gone the moment the ball left bat. Slower ball from Dubey, and around sixth stump. Buttler waits for the ball to come, and ends up lofting straight to the fielder, who took the catch well inside the field of play 207/319.6 edged behind. Raghuvanshi takes a low catch. Tewatia got across the stumps and went pulling at this rising short ball around middle. He swung too hard, and eventually fell to Green. KKR win by 29 runs, and keep their slim playoffs hopes alive 218/4Extras20 (b 1, lb 8, w 11)TOTAL218/4 (20 Overs, RR: 10.9)Fall of wickets: 1-49 (Nishant Sindhu, 4.1 ov), 2-177 (Shubman Gill, 16.2 ov), 3-207 (Jos Buttler, 18.5 ov), 4-218 (Rahul Tewatia, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB SR Dubey 2.4 0 23 1 8.62 8 2 0 4 0 C Green 3 0 25 1 8.33 7 1 2 0 0 Kartik Tyagi 4 0 59 0 14.75 6 6 4 0 0 M Pathirana 1.2 0 9 0 6.75 4 1 0 2 0 SP Narine 4 0 29 2 7.25 11 1 2 0 0 CV Varun 4 0 47 0 11.75 3 4 2 1 0 AS Roy 1 0 17 0 17 2 1 2 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Gujarat Titans , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.15, Second Session 21.15-22.45
Match days
16 May 2026 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Gujarat Titans 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 56 runs, 1 wicket)
- Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Player Subs: Ramandeep Singh, Rovman Powell, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Dahiya and Vaibhav Arora.
- Gujarat Titans Impact Player Subs: Rahul Tewatia, Prasidh Krishna, Glenn Phillips, Kumar Kushagra and Anuj Rawat.
- Over 5.2: Review by Gujarat Titans (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - K Swaroopanand, Batter - FH Allen (Struck down)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (34 balls), Extras 4
- FH Allen: 50 off 21 balls (3 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 85/1 in 8.0 overs (FH Allen 51, A Raghuvanshi 16)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 25 balls (FH Allen 28, A Raghuvanshi 18, Ex 4)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 8.6 overs (54 balls), Extras 4
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 150 runs in 12.4 overs (76 balls), Extras 4
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 26 balls (A Raghuvanshi 17, C Green 33, Ex 1)
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 190/2 in 15.5 overs (A Raghuvanshi 45, C Green 33)
- A Raghuvanshi: 50 off 33 balls (2 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Over 16.5: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - C Green (Struck down)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 200 runs in 16.6 overs (103 balls), Extras 5
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 49 balls (A Raghuvanshi 53, C Green 46, Ex 2)
- C Green: 50 off 26 balls (3 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Over 19.5: Review by Gujarat Titans (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - K Swaroopanand, Batter - C Green (Upheld)
- Innings Break: Kolkata Knight Riders - 247/2 in 20.0 overs (A Raghuvanshi 82, C Green 52)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 56 runs, 1 wicket)
- Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Player Sub: Matheesha Pathirana in for Finn Allen (Kolkata Knight Riders innings, 19.6 ov)
- Gujarat Titans: 50 runs in 4.2 overs (26 balls), Extras 14
- Over 8.1: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - K Swaroopanand, Batter - Shubman Gill (Upheld)
- Strategic Timeout: Gujarat Titans - 92/1 in 9.0 overs (Shubman Gill 46, JC Buttler 6)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 33 balls (Shubman Gill 36, JC Buttler 12, Ex 2)
- Gujarat Titans: 100 runs in 9.5 overs (59 balls), Extras 16
- Shubman Gill: 50 off 33 balls (2 x 4, 5 x 6)
- Over 11.2: Review by Gujarat Titans (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - Shubman Gill (Upheld)
- Gujarat Titans: 150 runs in 13.6 overs (84 balls), Extras 17
- 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 59 balls (Shubman Gill 66, JC Buttler 34, Ex 3)
- Strategic Timeout: Gujarat Titans - 177/1 in 16.0 overs (Shubman Gill 85, JC Buttler 50)
- JC Buttler: 50 off 32 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)
- B Sai Sudharsan retired hurt on 23* from 42/0 to 177/2
- Over 17.3: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Bowling), Decision Challenged - NoBall, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - B Sai Sudharsan (Upheld)
- Gujarat Titans: 200 runs in 17.6 overs (108 balls), Extras 18
- Gujarat Titans Impact Player Sub: Rahul Tewatia in for Mohammed Siraj (Gujarat Titans innings, 18.5 ov)
- B Sai Sudharsan: 50 off 27 balls (6 x 4, 3 x 6)
Match Coverage
All Match News'It is simple math' for GT but the 'upper ceiling' complicates matters
"If you have to score targets further than 225, it will come back and hurt them," Sanjay Bangar says after GT fell 29 runs short of KKR's 247
'I was probably a shell of a human for a bit' - being dropped helped, says Allen
"I probably wasn't enjoying it as much as I should have at the time, because I was putting so much pressure on myself," Finn Allen says of his struggles early on in IPL 2026
Rayudu calls Narine the 'best IPL player of all time' after latest heroics
"These are regulation figures for him, he has not done anything extraordinary," Sanjay Bangar says after Sunil Narine's 2 for 29 in KKR's win over GT
Stats - Allen puts on a six-hitting feast, Narine is POTM in his 200th IPL game
Many records were rewritten at Eden Gardens on Saturday when KKR put up 247 for 2, the highest total against GT
Raghuvanshi proves he belongs in KKR purple
His 82 off 44 balls against Gujarat Titans' high-quality bowling attack is a sign he may have a future in India blue as well




