IPL 2026 MI vs KKR 2nd Match: The second match of the Indian Premier League 2026 will be played between Mumbai Indians (MI) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) today i.e. on March 29 (Sunday) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. By winning the match, both the teams would like to start their campaign in the tournament. So let us know before the match which team has the upper hand and who can win today.

kkr vs mumbai head to head

Talking about head to head between KKR and Mumbai Indians, a total of 35 matches have been played between the two so far. In these matches, Mumbai took the lead and won 24 matches, while Kolkata won 11 matches. In terms of head to head, MI seems to have the upper hand.

Mumbai’s record of defeat in the first match of the season

Mumbai’s record in the first match of the season is very bad. Mumbai has faced defeat in the last 13 opening matches of the season. Mumbai last won the first match of the season in 2012. Mumbai Indians, who were ahead in head to head, seem to be lagging behind in the first match of the season due to poor record. In such a situation, the competition between Mumbai and Kolkata will be more interesting. Now it will be interesting to see which team wins the match.

KKR squad for IPL 2026

Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Cameron Green, Tim Seifert (wicketkeeper), Rovman Powell, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Karthik Tyagi, Umran Malik, Rahul Tripathi, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Rachin Ravindra, Blessing Muzarabani, Navdeep Saini, Prashant Solanki, Daksh Kamra, Sarthak Ranjan, Tejasvi Dahiya, Saurabh Dubey.

MI squad for IPL 2026

Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (wk), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (captain), Sherfane Rutherford, Shardul Thakur, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Raj Bawa, Robin Minze, Naman Dheer, Ryan Rickelton, AM Ghazanfar, Mayank Markande, Danish Malewar, Ashwini Kumar, Mohammad Salahuddin. Izhar, Will Jack, Mitchell Santner, Mayank Rawat, Atharva Ankolekar, Raghu Sharma.

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In the second match of IPL 2026, the teams of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) are on the field. In the match, KKR batted first and put 220/4 runs on the board in 20 overs. Ajinkya Rahane played the biggest innings for the team and scored 67 runs in 40 balls with the help of 3 fours and 5 sixes. Apart from this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came at number four for the team, did wonders and scored 51 runs in 29 balls with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes. During this period, Shardul Thakur took maximum 3 wickets in his account for Mumbai.

In the match, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl. Kolkata, who came to bat first, had a good start. The team had scored 78 runs for 1 wicket in the powerplay i.e. in the first 6 overs. Ajinkya Rahane and Finn Allen, who opened for the team, gave a good start to the team by making a partnership of 69 (32 balls) for the first wicket.

Along with the beginning, Kolkata also had a good ending. 21 runs came in the last 2 overs of the innings. In the beginning, Rahane gave a class to the Mumbai bowlers. Then in the end Raghuvanshi took the team to the mark of 220 runs with amazing batting.

KKR innings

Rahane and Finn Allen added 69 runs for the first wicket for Kolkata. During this period Allen scored 37 runs. After this, Ajinkya Rahane and Cameron Green together added 40 runs (21 balls) for the second wicket. Then moving forward, Rahane made a partnership of 36 (28 balls) with Angkrish Raghuvanshi for the third wicket.

After this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi along with Rinku Singh helped the team reach a good total by making a partnership of 60 (30 balls) for the fourth wicket. Vice-captain Rinku scored 33* runs for the team with the help of 4 fours in 21 balls.

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