IPL 2026: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders Match Scorecard

I stayed up late to watch this one. April 2, 2026. Eden Gardens, Kolkata. The KKR Vs SRH IPL match had everything. Big hits. Wickets falling in clusters. Two run-outs that changed everything. And a chase that never really got going.

Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 226 for 8. Kolkata Knight Riders folded for 161 in just 16 overs. A 65-run win for the orange army.

Here is the full KKR Vs SRH highlights 2026. Ball by ball. Wicket by wicket. No fluff. Just what happened.

Toss and Team News

KKR Vs SRH highlights 2026

Ajinkya Rahane won the toss. He chose to bowl first. Big moment for him. This was his 200th IPL match. Only the 11th player to reach that mark. MS Dhoni. Rohit Sharma. Virat Kohli. Now Rahane.

KKR had injury problems coming in. Matheesha Pathirana unavailable. Harshit Rana and Akash Deep also missing. Their pace attack looked thin.

SRH handed a debut to Shivang Kumar. A left-arm chinaman spinner from Madhya Pradesh. Pat Cummins still not fit. Ishan Kishan captained again.

SRH Innings: The Travishek Destruction

The KKR Vs SRH IPL match highlights start with the powerplay. Pure carnage. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma put on 82 runs in just 5.4 overs. That is a run rate of nearly 15 per over.

Travis Head smashed 46 runs off 21 balls. Six fours. Three sixes. Vaibhav Arora started with three dots to Head. Beat his outside edge on all three deliveries. Then Head pulled the last ball for four. That was the calm before the storm.

Abhishek Sharma scored 48 off 21 balls. Four fours. Four sixes.

The real damage came in the fifth over. Abhishek took on Varun Chakravarthy. 25 runs in one over. Two sixes over long-on. Three fours on the off-side. The spinner had no answer.

KKR dropped a catch too. Rahane put down Head in the fourth over. Off Sunil Narine. Head stepped forward for a big shot. The ball went high. Rahane ran back. Got under it. Could not hold on.

SRH finished the powerplay at 84 for 1. According to CricViz, that is SRH's third-highest powerplay score when setting a target in IPL history. Only behind 124 for 0 against Delhi Capitals in 2024 and 94 for 1 against Rajasthan Royals in 2025.

The Middle Overs Collapse

KKR made a comeback. A serious one. Kartik Tyagi ended the opening stand. He dismissed Head in the sixth over. Caught at mid-on. Then Blessing Muzarabani turned the game.

He removed stand-in skipper Ishan Kishan for 14 off 9 balls. Caught at deep cover. Then he removed Abhishek Sharma in the same over. Varun Chakravarthy took a brilliant diving catch at deep square leg. The third umpire had multiple looks. Decided it in KKR's favour.

Anukul Roy then removed Aniket Verma for 1. Caught at long-off. Suddenly SRH went from 112 for 1 to 118 for 4 in the space of a few overs.

Klaasen and Nitish Reddy Steady The Ship

This is where experience matters.

Heinrich Klaasen scored 52 runs off 35 balls. Four fours. One six. He did not try to hit everything. He just rotated strike. Kept the scoreboard moving.

Nitish Kumar Reddy contributed 39 runs off 24 balls. Four fours. One six. He also dropped a catch earlier. Varun Chakravarthy put him down on the last ball of the 18th over. That miss cost KKR.

Their partnership added 82 runs in 53 balls. Klaasen hit a reverse scoop six off Kartik Tyagi. Over deep third. That shot alone was worth watching.

Vaibhav Arora hurt SRH in the 19th over. He dismissed Nitish Reddy and Salil Arora off successive deliveries. Two wickets in two balls. Could not complete the hat-trick though. Klaasen ensured SRH finished strong. They took 51 runs in the last four overs.

Blessing Muzarabani took 4 wickets for 41 runs for KKR. Impressive figures on a flat pitch.

SRH finished at 226 for 8. The highest total of IPL 2026 so far.

KKR Innings: The Chase That Never Happened?

The KKR Vs SRH highlights 2026 continue with the chase. It started with fireworks. Then fizzled out.

Finn Allen started like a man possessed. 28 runs off just 7 balls. Four fours. Two sixes. He smashed David Payne for 25 runs in the first over itself. Three fours. Two sixes.

Then he chipped one back to Harsh Dubey. Caught and bowled. KKR was 29 for 1 in 1.3 overs.

Ajinkya Rahane scored 8 runs off 10 balls. Painful to watch. The veteran skipper looked completely out of touch. Jaydev Unadkat dismissed him. Caught by Eshan Malinga.

The Run-Out That Changed Everything

Then came the chaos. Cameron Green scored 2 runs. Then got run out. Here is what happened. Angkrish Raghuvanshi played the ball straight back. The bowler, Harsh Dubey, got a boot to it. Deflected it toward the stumps.

Both batters froze. Then decided to run. Confusion. Green was stranded mid-pitch. The bowler came back and broke the stumps. The third umpire gave Green out after review.

Earlier in the same over, Raghuvanshi collided with Eshan Malinga while trying to take a run. The bowler was in his way. Things got a bit heated. KKR ended the powerplay at 74 for 3. Not terrible. But losing Green hurt.

Raghuvanshi's Fifty and Another Run-Out

Angkrish Raghuvanshi played brilliantly. 52 runs off 29 balls. Six fours. Two sixes. His second consecutive fifty in IPL 2026. He and Rinku Singh put on 46 runs in 30 balls. KKR was building something. Then another run-out. This time Raghuvanshi was the one out.

Rinku played a cut shot and ran for a single. Then stopped midway. Raghuvanshi had already crossed half the pitch. Too late to turn back. Shivang Kumar completed the runout on Eshan Malinga's throw.

Game over after that.

Rinku Singh scored 35 runs off 25 balls. Four fours. One six. But the game was already gone.

Sunil Narine hit 12 runs off 4 balls. Two sixes. Too little too late.

Bowling Figures That Matter

Jaydev Unadkat took 3 wickets for 21 runs in 3 overs. He dismissed Rahane, Kartik Tyagi, and Varun Chakravarthy. Experience showed.

Eshan Malinga took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 2 overs. The young Sri Lankan also had a hand in both run-outs. Sharp in the field.

Nitish Kumar Reddy took 2 wickets for 17 runs in 2 overs. All-round performance of the highest quality. Also scored 39 runs with the bat.

Harsh Dubey took 1 wicket for 18 runs in 2 overs. The one who removed Finn Allen.

KKR was bowled out for 161 in 16 overs. Four overs unused. That tells you everything.

Full Scorecard Summary

Sunrisers Hyderabad – 226 for 8 in 20 overs

Batter	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Travis Head	46	21	6	3
Abhishek Sharma	48	21	4	4
Ishan Kishan (c)	14	9	3	0
Heinrich Klaasen	52	35	4	1
Nitish Kumar Reddy	39	24	4	1
Aniket Verma	1	2	0	0
Salil Arora	0	1	0	0

KKR Bowling

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Blessing Muzarabani	4	41	4
Vaibhav Arora	4	47	2
Kartik Tyagi	4	47	1
Varun Chakravarthy	2	31	0
Sunil Narine	4	39	0

Kolkata Knight Riders – 161 all out in 16 Overs

Batter	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Finn Allen	28	7	4	2
Ajinkya Rahane (c)	8	10	0	0
Angkrish Raghuvanshi	52	29	6	2
Cameron Green	2	3	0	0
Rinku Singh	35	25	4	1
Sunil Narine	12	4	1	1
Ramandeep Singh	10	9	1	0
Anukul Roy	0	1	0	0

SRH Bowling

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Jaydev Unadkat	3	21	3
Eshan Malinga	2	14	2
Nitish Kumar Reddy	2	17	2
Harsh Dubey	2	18	1
David Payne	2	36	0
Travis Head	1	16	0

Key Moments That Changed The Game

The 25-run over from Varun Chakravarthy destroyed KKR's bowling plans. Abhishek Sharma took him apart. Two sixes. Three fours. The spinner never recovered.

Cameron Green's run-out on the last ball of the Powerplay. KKR was 74 for 3 instead of maybe 90 for 2. That hurt.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi's run-out at 120 for 4. The partnership with Rinku Singh was building. 46 runs together. Then chaos. Game over.

SRH's Powerplay score of 84 for 1 was their third-highest ever when setting a target.

Records Broken and Milestones Reached

Abhishek Sharma completed 100 IPL sixes for SRH. David Warner leads with 143 sixes for the franchise. Abhishek now has 101. Second on the list.

Ajinkya Rahane played his 200th IPL match. 11th player to reach that mark.

Rinku Singh became KKR's player with most field catches. 41 catches. More than Andre Russell (40) and Sunil Narine (36).

Finn Allen scored 24 runs in the first over. Tied with Prithvi Shaw for second-highest runs in the first over of an IPL innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal holds the record with 26 runs.

Player of the Match

Nitish Kumar Reddy was named the Player of the Match. 39 runs. 2 wickets. Calm under pressure.

What This Means For IPL 2026 Standings?

SRH opened their account. Two points. Sixth place with two games played. KKR is ninth. Zero points from two matches. They lost to Mumbai Indians at Wankhede first. Now this at home.

The Final Thoughts

The KKR Vs SRH highlights 2026 tell a clear story. SRH batted fearlessly. KKR batted carelessly. The opening stand of 82 in 5.4 overs set the tone. Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head did not respect the KKR bowlers.

They just attacked. That mindset is hard to defend against. KKR's chase started with promise. Finn Allen's 28 off 7 was incredible. But run-outs killed them. Two run-outs in crucial moments. You cannot chase 227 with that kind of running between wickets.

The KKR Vs SRH IPL match result shows one team playing modern T20 cricket and the other stuck in the past. SRH understood the pitch. KKR did not. Nitish Kumar Reddy deserves every bit of praise coming his way. 39 runs. 2 wickets. Calm under pressure. The kid is special.

KKR needs to go back to the drawing board. Fast. The season is young. But two losses in two games creates pressure. Especially when one of them is a 65-run thrashing at home.

For SRH, this is the perfect confidence booster before their home game against Lucknow Super Giants on April 5.