Sunday is bringing tremendous excitement in IPL 2026. Two matches will be played on 19th April, where the first clash will be between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. Even after 6 matches, KKR has not got its first win. The second match will be played between Lucknow Super Giants and table topper Punjab Kings.

The match between Kolkata and Rajasthan will start at 3:30 pm Indian time. This match will be played at Eden Gardens. The second match of the day will be played between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings in New Chandigarh, which will start at 7:30 pm.

Kolkata vs Rajasthan, who will win?

Talking about the current form, Kolkata Knight Riders is struggling with very bad form. On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals have lost only one match in the entire season so far. Obviously the morale of the RR team will be sky high. But it also has to be kept in mind that in the last match itself, two young bowlers of SRH had exposed the batting line-up of Rajasthan. KKR would also like to take advantage of the same weaknesses.

Talking about the overall head to head record, Kolkata has defeated RR 16 times in 32 matches. Rajasthan has won 14 times while there was no result in one of their matches. But in the last 4 matches played at Eden Gardens, Rajasthan has defeated KKR thrice. The current form and the figures of Eden Gardens are pointing towards Rajasthan’s victory somewhere.

How will the pitch be?

This match will be played at Eden Gardens, where the pitch is usually helpful for batting. These days, dew can prove to be a big factor in the field, in such a situation the team winning the toss can decide to chase. The average score in the first innings here is 171 runs.

KKR’s probable playing eleven: Tim Seifert, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wicketkeeper), Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Karthik Tyagi.

Probable playing eleven of Rajasthan: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Riyan Parag (c), Luan-Dre Pretorius, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Joffra Archer, Nandre Berger, Sandeep Sharma, Ravi Bishnoi, Tushar Deshpande.

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Lucknow vs Punjab, who will win?

Talking about the current form in IPL 2026, Punjab has been unbeaten so far and is sitting on the top of the points table. Demolishing the fort of Punjab will be a very difficult task for Lucknow. LSG is at seventh place in the table. In head to head record, both the teams have defeated each other three times. Especially middle order batting has been a big weakness of Lucknow. Punjab bowlers would like to take advantage of this aspect. These figures and current form are pointing towards Punjab’s victory.

How will the pitch be?

Once a batsman gets settled on this ground of New Chandigarh, it becomes very easy for him to bat. When the last match was played on this ground, Punjab Kings had chased the target of 220 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. A high-scoring match can be seen here also on Sunday.

Probable playing eleven of Punjab: Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Xavier Bartlett, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Probable playing eleven of Lucknow: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (captain), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, George Linde, Abdul Samad, Avesh Khan, Prince Yadav, Mohammed Shami.

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