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Rinku Singh Breaks Major Record Held By Andre Russell: The start of the Indian Premier League 2026 has been very disappointing for Kolkata Knight Riders. This season, KKR has faced defeat in two back to back matches. KKR had lost in the first match against Mumbai Indians and in the second match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. However, despite the defeat in this match, KKR vice-captain Rinku Singh achieved a feat. He has made a big record in his name leaving Andre Russell behind.
Rinku Singh broke a big record of Andre Russell
Rinku Singh registered this record in his name in fielding. Actually, Rinku Singh has made a record of taking more catches than Andre Russell for KKR in IPL. Rinku did this feat in his 61st match while playing for KKR. Rinku now has a total of 42 catches in his name for KKR, while Andre Russell had achieved the feat of taking 40 catches while playing for KKR.
KKR lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by 65 runs
In this match played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, KKR team had to face a big defeat of 65 runs against Sunrisers. In this match, Sunrisers Hyderabad team, batting first, scored a huge score of 226 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. While batting for Sunrisers, Heinrich Klaasen played a explosive inning of 52 runs. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma made important contribution of 48 runs and Travis Head made 46 runs.
Kolkata Knight got all out for only 161 runs.
KKR team, which came to chase the target of 228 runs given by Sunrisers Hyderabad, had a very bad start. KKR lost its first wicket in the form of Finn Allen, then captain Ajinkya Rahane also got out after scoring just 8 runs. After this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi definitely kept the hopes alive for some time, but due to lack of coordination with Rinku Singh, he got run out after scoring 52 runs. Before that he had also made Cameron Green run out. After Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh tried to take KKR’s innings forward, but he too was out after scoring 35 runs in 25 balls. In this way, the entire KKR team was all out after scoring only 161 runs in 16 overs.