Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians encounter. The match is being played at the iconic Eden Gardens stadium. It is a huge game for the home team who have surged into the tournament after losing their first few games of the season.

Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and chose to bowl first.

Matheesha Pathirana is out of the side after suffering an injury in his debut game vs GT. Varun Chakravarthy has retained his spot in the team despite his injury concerns.
For the visiting side, Hardik Pandya is back at the helm as the captain with Suryakumar Yadav also back in the XI.

Allah Ghazanfar makes his return to the side. Quinton de Kock and Raj Bawa were already ruled out due to injuries. Pandya missed the last three games owing to back spasms. Yadav, was given a game off to spend time with his family after welcoming his first born recently.

KKR vs MI IPL 2026 playing XIs and impact player list

KKR playing XI – Ajinkya Rahane(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Kartik Tyagi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Saurabh Dubey.

KKR Impact player list – Finn Allen, Vaibhav Arora, Ramandeep Singh, Tejasvi Dahiya, Rahul Tripathi

MI playing XI – Ryan Rickelton(w), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Will Jacks, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Raghu Sharma

MI impact player list – Shardul Thakur, Mayank Rawat, Robin Minz, Krish Bhagat, AM Ghazanfar-

Mumbai Indians openers Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma will come out to bat first and KKR will open with Anukul Roy from the looks of it.

Mumbai Indians first innings

0.1 – Anukul Roy to Ryan Rickelton – one run

0.2 – Anukul Roy to Rohit Sharma – one run.