IPL 2026 KKR vs GT Playing 11: Ajinkya Rahane-led Kolkata Knight Riders will square off against Shubman Gill-led Gujarat Titans in the 60th match of the IPL 2026 on May 16 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Gujarat Titans have been enjoying an impressive season with 8 wins out of 12 games and are close to qualifying for the playoffs.

On the other hand, KKR had a poor start in the campaign and made a brilliant comeback with four wins in last five games. They will be need to win all the remaining games to keep their qualification hopes alive.

With Gujarat sitting comfortably in the 2nd position, Kolkata Knight Riders are in the 8th position of the IPL 2026 points table.

The sides have met on 6 occasions where Gujarat Titans have 4 wins while KKR have only 1 win and one game ended with no result.

Gujarat Titans won the toss and opted to bowl. Speaking at the toss, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill said, “We are gonna bowl first. There was a little bit of rain yesterday. We are hoping that it’ll get better in the second innings. Our bowling unit has been top-notch.

Meanwhile, KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane said, “Taking one game at a time. We have to win three games and see what happens. We’ve been playing really good cricket, the last five games. We were looking to field as well. There’s a little bit of mositure. I don’t think it’ll change too much. Varun comes in, Varun is fit.”

IPL 2026 KKR vs GT Playing 11

Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakaravarthy, Saurabh Dubey, Kartik Tyagi.

Gujarat Titans Playing 11: Shubman Gill (c), B Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Nishant Sindhu, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore