Having started the IPL 2026 season with back-to-back defeats to the Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad, Ajinkya Rahane-led KKR were also in trouble against the Punjab Kings in a rain-affected game at home, before the weather forced the sides to share the spoils in an unfinished match.

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Rishabh Pant’s LSG also got off to a poor start, losing to the Delhi Capitals at Ekana, but they made a comeback against SRH, beating Ishan Kishan’s side in the final over by five wickets.

LSG also go into the contest with a better head-to-head record. They have won four out of the six times the sides have faced each other, while KKR have won only twice.

Teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Navdeep Saini, Kartik Tyagi

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav

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‘He’s got a better IPL record than Rohit Sharma’: Simon Doull backs Ajinkya Rahane amid KKR captain’s strike rate debate

Kolkata Knight Riders’ captain Ajinkya Rahane found support from Simon Doull, who said the 37-year-old’s retort was not entirely misplaced. The Kiwi pundit also observed that Rahane’s record in recent seasons even stood ahead of his former India teammate Rohit Sharma, who is regarded as an aggressive batter in the format. “His numbers in the last four years have not been that bad. He averages 30 and strikes at 148 over 30-odd games. People are talking about dropping him. It’s a better record than what Rohit has got in the last four years. It’s an equal record to Ishan Kishan in the last four years. You are not talking about dropping any of those blokes. Hence his frustration. But it comes down to the pressure from a captaincy point of view,” Doull said in a conversation on Cricbuzz. (READ MORE)