Kolkata Knight Riders, captained by Shreyas Iyer, registered its first win in IPL 2026 on Sunday. While chasing the target of 156 set by Rajasthan Royals, KKR lost 6 wickets at 85, both the openers in the form of captain Rahane and Tim Seifert could not even open the account. However, Rinku Singh’s half-century made Kolkata win the lost match. But a shameful record was registered in Rahane’s name in this match.

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane has become the opener to be out on zero the most number of times in IPL history. Rahane has been out for duck a total of 12 times so far. In the previous match, he had equaled Parthiv Patel in this unwanted record, who was out on zero 11 times as an opener.

Players who have been out on zero the most number of times as an opener in IPL

• 12 times- Ajinkya Rahane
• 11 times- Parthik Patel
• 10 times- Shikhar Dhawan
• 10 times- Gautam Gambhir
• 9 times- David Warner

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Rahane’s performance in IPL 2026

Ajinkya Rahane played a brilliant inning of 67 runs in the first match of IPL 2026, although KKR lost this match. After this, he could not even reach double figures in 4 out of 6 innings. Before Rajasthan, Rahane was also out for zero in the match against Gujarat. Rahane scored a total in 7 matches of the ongoing edition.
Scored 152 runs.

match status

Batting first in this match played at Eden Gardens, Rajasthan Royals were able to score only 155 runs. Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets for just 14 runs in 4 overs, Karthik Tyagi took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs. Sunil Narine took 2 wickets. KKR had a very bad start while chasing the target. Tim Seifert (0) was out in the first over and Ajinkya Rahane (0) was out in the second over.

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After this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (10), who came as an impact player, also returned to the pavilion cheaply, Cameron Green (27), Rovman Powell (23) and Ramandeep Singh (10) were also out early. The team’s sixth wicket fell in 13.3 overs, when the score was 85 runs. Then Rinku Singh took over the innings and won the lost game, he scored unbeaten 53 runs in 34 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 5 fours. Anukul Roy supported him and played an important inning of 29 runs in 16 balls. KKR won the match by 4 wickets.