The sixth match of IPL is between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sun Risers Hyderabad. It is going to take place on 2nd April 2026 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. It is the home ground of KKR.
Generally, Eden Gardens’s pitch in Kolkata is a batting friendly, high scoring surface with short boundaries. Moreover, it can assist spinners as the match progresses. It is a high scoring ground often crossing 180-200 runs in IPL.
In terms of team combination Finn Allen, Captain Ajinkya Rahne, Cameron Green are positioned as top order batsman. And Kolkata has a wide range of spin bowlers as Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty.
On the other hand ,Sun Risers Hyderabad has awesome openers as Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head at 3rd and 4th position there is Ishaan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen. In bowling SRH has wide range of pace bowling by Jayadev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga.
Kolkata Knight Riders playing 11 (probable):
Ajinkya Rahne (C), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Vaibhav Arora, Blessing Muzrabani
Sun Risers Hyderabad playing 11 (probable):
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishaan Kishan (C), Nitish Kumar Readdy, Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, David Payne, Jayadev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga
Both team will compete to win there first match of IPL 2026.The match will stream on Jio Hotstar App and Star Sports Network.