By Admin 
Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Gujarat Titans by 29 runs. With this victory, Kolkata has kept its playoff hopes alive. Thanks to the half-century innings of Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Cameron Green, KKR team managed to register a big win. For Gujarat Titans also, 3 batsmen scored half-centuries. The half-century innings of Sai Sudarshan, Jos Buttler and Shubman Gill could not take Gujarat to victory.
KKR stopped Gujarat’s Vijayrath
Gujarat Titans had won five consecutive matches and were moving towards a top-2 finish in the points table. But this victory of Kolkata has defeated Shubman Gill and his army riding on Vijayarath. In this match played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata team batted first and scored 247 runs. This was the third highest score of KKR in the history of IPL.
When the Gujarat team came to chase the huge target, it had a good start. Gujarat had scored 42 runs in 3 overs, but then Sai Sudarshan left the field due to injury. As soon as Sudarshan went out, the batting momentum broke and Gujarat batsmen could only add 32 runs in the next five overs. This also proved to be the turning point of the match.
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6 fifties were scored in the match
A total of 465 runs were scored in this match and a total of 6 different batsmen scored half-centuries. Finn Allen (93 runs), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (82 runs) and Cameron Green (52 runs) scored fifties for Kolkata. On the other hand, Shubman Gill (85 runs), Sai Sudarshan (53 runs) and Jos Buttler (57 runs) scored half-centuries for Gujarat. Let us tell you that Sudarshan has scored four consecutive half-centuries in IPL 2026.
Mathisha Pathirana came to play for Kolkata for the first time in IPL 2026, but got injured again after bowling 8 balls and went out of the field. Sai Sudarshan was also injured, but he later returned and completed his half-century, which could not help Gujarat.
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