Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets. This is the fourth consecutive win for the Kolkata team in the IPL 2026 season and has kept its playoff hopes alive. Finn Allen, who came to play as an impact player, created history by playing a match-winning inning of 100 runs. Batting first, Delhi Capitals had scored 142 runs, in reply Kolkata team chased the target 34 balls earlier.

Finn Allen created history

Finn Allen gave victory to Kolkata Knight Riders by hitting a six. He completed his century in 47 balls, which is the fastest century for Kolkata in the history of IPL. Finn Allen is only the fourth batsman to score a century for KKR. Before him, only Brendon McCullum, Venkatesh Iyer and Sunil Narine could score centuries for the Kolkata team.

• 47 Ball – Finn Allen
• 49 balls – Sunil Narine
• 49 balls – Venkatesh Iyer
• 53 balls – Brendon McCullum

Finn Allen returned unbeaten after scoring 100 runs in 47 balls and hit 5 fours and 10 sixes in this stormy innings. Allen scored 80 runs from the boundary itself. At one time Allen was playing after scoring 53 runs in 34 balls. He took only 13 balls to score the last 47 runs of his innings.

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KKR’s winning four

This is the same Kolkata Knight Riders, which could not win even a single match in the first 6 matches of the season. But now Kolkata has scored four wins, taking it to 9 points in 10 matches. KKR can still easily get a ticket to the playoffs without depending on anyone. Because by winning the next four matches it can reach 17 points.

Pathum Nissanka contributed 50 runs and Ashutosh Sharma contributed 39 runs for Delhi Capitals. But this score was definitely not worth defending. Except Axar Patel and Lungi Ngidi, all the Delhi bowlers were badly beaten.

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