Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Match: Angkrish Raghuvanshi (59 off 47 balls) and Ajinkya Rahane (43) guided Kolkata Knight Riders to a seven-wicket victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad to prevent SRH from winning their sixth game in a row and rising to the top of the IPL 2026 standings.
In the first innings, for the first time in IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad lost all their 10 wickets while for the first time in IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders managed to scuttle out an opposition and take all 10 wickets. Sunrisers Hyderabad slumped from 105/1 to 165 all out at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad.
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After Abhishek Sharma departed early, Travis Head smashed his way to a 28-ball 61 against the Kolkata Knight Riders to help Sunrisers Hyderabad cross the 100-run mark in the 9th over. But after that, Sunrisers Hyderabad lost quick wickets: in fact, SRH slumped from 105/1 to 156/9. Pat Cummins’s Sunrisers Hyderabad opted to bat first in the afternoon game against Ajinkya Rahane’s Kolkata Knight Riders in the first game of double-header Sunday in the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL).
KKR also seem to have found their feet after a horror start in which they were without a win for six games. It remains to be seen if it was all too little too late but KKR do come into this match having won both of their previous two fixtures. For them to make it to the playoffs from here, though, they will have to win practically every match and then hope for other results to go their way. They may have played only eight games this season but KKR are already in a zone where every match they play is a must-win.
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Match EndedIndian Premier League, 2026 – Match 45
Sunrisers Hyderabad
165 (19.0)
vs
Kolkata Knight Riders
169/3 (18.2)
Match Ended ( Match 45 )
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets
Pat Cummins: I’m going to live life
Pat Cummins has never thought of himself as a leader.
“I think for most of my life I’ve always been the youngest person in the room. I never really felt like a leader at all,” he told Elizabeth Day on her podcast How to Fail.
Then Australia asked him to captain the Test side in November 2021. Then he won the World Test Championship. Then the 2023 ODI World Cup. Then SRH handed him their IPL franchise and he turned them into one of the most watchable teams in the tournament’s history, liberating a batting order that had forgotten it was allowed to swing.
Abhishek Sharma, the main beneficiary of what followed, put it plainly on the YouTube show Breakfast with Champions: “Marte hue out hona chahiye, darte hue nahi. I am fine with the team being 100 all out, but I don’t want safe scores of 160 or 170.”
That was Cummins speaking through Sharma. The captain who didn’t seek the role, expressing it through the batter who most completely understood it. READ MORE
