Updated : May 25, 2026 00:04 IST
Catch all of Sportstar's live coverage of the IPL 2026 match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on May 24. | Photo Credit: AP
Catch all of Sportstar's live coverage of the IPL 2026 match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on May 24. | Photo Credit: AP
elcome to Sportstar’s coverage of the IPL 2026 match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on May 24!
Signing off
That’s it from us for the league-phase! It’s been a long 70 games, but how fun as well. See you on Tuesday now for the Playoffs!
Good night!
KKR vs DC, IPL 2026: Delhi Capitals signs off with consolation victory over Kolkata Knight Riders
Delhi Capitals secured a consolation victory over Kolkata Knight Riders, led by KL Rahul's batting and Kuldeep Yadav's bowling.
KKR Live Score: 163 all out in 18.4 overs
Ngidi to bowl out, and Varun flicks a full toss for four! Varun digs out a yorker and turns down a single. Wow. Full and wide, Varun misses out. Slower ball, Varun slices it to covers, and Delhi Capitals wins by 40 runs!
A consolation victory for Axar Patel and Co.!
KKR Live Score: 159/9 in 18 overs
Starc now, this could be a big over in the game. Anukul slices it straight and sets off for two, but Powell has been runout! Rizvi, the sub, nails a direct hit from long-on, and Powell is on his way! That’s likely curtains for KKR.
Rovman Powell run out (sub [Sameer Rizvi]) 29 (21b)
Anukul looks to slog it, and gets only height. Starc gets underneath it, and that’s it for Anukul!
Anukul Roy c & b Mitchell Starc 9 (8b)
Varun is in, broken foot in tow, and he chips one to start. And Starc has another! Cue-ended to mid-off by Tyagi!
Kartik Tyagi c Axar Patel b Mitchell Starc 0 (1b)
Saurabh Dubey is the last man in, how good is he with the bat? Squeezes the first ball to point. Finest of fine edges past the keeper for four!
KKR Live Score: 153/6 in 17 overs
Ngiid to bowl the first of two. Anukul punches for one. Powell digs out the yorker for one. Slower ball, and Anukul slices it agonisingly over extra-cover for four! Punched back to the bowler. Dug out for one. Good ball, but no luck! Goes for the yorker, but Powell inside-edges it past the keeper for four to end the over!
KKR Live Score: 142/6 in 16 overs
Kuldeep to bowl out, Powell starts with two. Down leg, half a shout for caught behind. Beaten on the outside edge now. Clipped for one. Wide down leg, Porel can’t gather and the batters run a bye. Squares Powell up. Short to finish, and Powell hammers it away for four!
KKR Live Score: 133/6 in 15 overs
Axar returns, and Tejasvi has chopped on! KKR committing hara-kiri!
Tejasvi Dahiya b Axar Patel 1 (3b)
Anukul Roy is out at eight. It’s on these two to win it now, you’d say. Punched straight for one. Powell takes one, and Anukul follows suit.
Another calamitous over from KKR.
KKR Live Score: 129/5 in 14 overs
Kuldeep is back on the field and will bowl, Rahane chips it for two. And now he’s holed out! Tries to go straight, but ends up slicing it to long-off! Big wicket, the captain is gone!
Ajinkya Rahane c David Miller b Kuldeep Yadav 63 (39b)
Rinku Singh joins Rovman Powell, and he’s gone first ball! Tries to go over covers and gets too straight, Stubbs does really well to take the catch diving forward!
Rinku Singh c Tristan Stubbs b Kuldeep Yadav 0 (1b)
It’s worth noting that today KKR Impact Subbed Sunil Narine out, so he can’t bat. For now Tejasvi Dahiya is the new batter with Kuldeep on a hattrick. Porel has dropped the catch! Around the wicket and floated away, it nicks Tejasvi’s bat but Porel can’t gather! Oh heartbreak! Tejasvi gets off the mark with one.
KKR Live Score: 126/3 in 13 overs
Kuldeep has gone off the field after that over. Madhav to bowl now. Starts short, and Powell hooks it for six! Single to mid-off. Rahane pulls across the line for one. One more to Powell. Rahane steps across, and Madhav throws it too far down leg. Worked straight for one.
KKR Live Score: 115/3 in 12 overs
Kuldeep for his second, Rahane drives straight for four more! Punched for one. Massive hoick and missed by Powell. Down leg, and Powell sweeps hard for four! Worked for one. Tapped away for two more.
KKR Live Score: 103/3 in 11 overs
Axar again, Rahane takes one. Powell punches to long-off. Two dots in a row to Rahane. Clipped to midwicket for two, and that’s fifty from 31 balls for Ajinkya Rahane! Punched to long-on to end the over.
KKR Live Score: 98/3 in 10 overs
Kuldeep Yadav for the first time today. Rahane pulls off the backfoot for one. Tossed up, slapped straight for one by Green. Clipped away for one. Gone! Green tries to go over long-off, and picks out the fielder!
Cameron Green c David Miller b Kuldeep Yadav 2 (3b)
Rovman Powell out to the crease. Punches straight for one. Kuldeep has a problem with his foot here. Final ball clipped away by Rahane.
KKR Live Score: 93/2 in 9 overs
Ngidi again, Pandey takes a quick single. Rahane squeezes away one more. Some covers are being readied by the edge of the field. But for now, Pandey is gone courtesy of a brilliant catch from Starc! Tries to go straight, and Starc swoops forward at long-on to snap up a very sharp catch!
Manish Pandey c Mitchell Starc b Lungi Ngidi 25 (16b)
Timely breakthrough by the pair of fast bowlers. Cam Green comes to the crease, off the mark with one. Oh, deft! Guided past point by Rahane for four! Driven for one to end the over.
KKR Live Score: 85/1 in 8 overs
Axar again, Pandey advances and lofts down the ground for six! Worked to leg for one more. Drilled over long-off for six by Rahane now! KKR getting a move on now. And now he goes straight for six more! Clipped for two to end the over.
KKR Live Score: 64/1 in 7 overs
Madhav Tiwari enters the attack, Pandey squeezes a single away. Wide down leg. Punched to the sweeper for one more. Chopped to point for a dot. Madhav drops a tough chance off his own bowling! Wide outside off. Pandey takes a step down, and pulls a length ball away for four! Pulled for one more to end the over.
KKR Live Score: 55/1 in 6 overs
Axar to bowl for the first time, Rahane takes one. Oh, Manish opens up and belts it over mid-on for six! Defended to cover. Punched to long-off for one. Dot to end the PowerPlay from Rahane.
KKR Live Score: 47/1 in 5 overs
Lungi Ngidi gets a bowl. Allen punches to cover. Gone! Allen has an almighty swing, and gets a thick edge onto his stumps.
Finn Allen b Lungi Ngidi 20 (13b)
Manish Pandey is out to the middle. Two dots to start. Slammed past mid-on to end the over.
KKR Live Score: 43/0 in 4 overs
Auqib again, Allen drives to mid-off. On the pads, and Allen clips it away for four. Inside-edge onto back pad. Single to leg for Allen. Finally, Rahane is away! Clubs a length ball over mid-on for a huge six! And two in a row! Little squarer this time, but same result.
KKR Live Score: 26/0 in 3 overs
Starc again, and Allen pumps it over mid-off for six! Fuller now, and Allen opens the face to guide it past point for four! Guided to short third now. Tap and run single from Allen, a rarity. Rahane cue-ends to mid-off for a dot. Thick edge over short third for four now, this has been a tough start for Rahane.
KKR Live Score: 11/0 in 2 overs
Auqib Nabi to share the new ball, and pins Rahane on the pad! DC goes up, but it seemed to be heading down leg. DC reviews it! It’s missing the stumps, so Rahane survives. Defended to cover. Tries to go over off, doesn’t get all of it but gets four!
Backs away and tries to go over off, misses out. Swing and a miss again, how has that missed off stump? Leading edge over the offside for two.
KKR Live Score: 5/0 in 1 over
Rahane misses the cut first ball. Full, and jammed out. Punched to extra-cover for a single to open the scoring. Four! On a length, and Allen pumps it past mid-off for four! Full ball, Allen misses and Porel asks about a catch. Not given and DC doesn’t review. Driven to mid-on to end the over.
Chase to begin soon
Finn Allen and Ajinkya Rahane are making their way out to the middle for KKR, while Kuldeep Yadav has been Impact Subbed in for DC in place of KL Rahul. Starc has the new ball.
DC Live Score: 203/5 in 20 overs
Dubey to bowl out, and starts with a full toss that Miller parks over the legside for six. Good wide yorker to come back. Slot ball outside off, and Miller drives over covers for six more! Wide outside off, and that’s 200 up for DC. And wide again. Drilled to mid-off now!
David Miller c Finn Allen b Saurabh Dubey 28 (19b)
Tristan Stubbs with two balls to spare. Swing and a miss, the batters run a bye. Dropped off the last ball of the over! Ashutosh opened the face and guided it to Tejasvi, but he can’t handle on.
Delhi Capitals closes on 203 for five in its 20 overs.
DC Live Score: 187/4 in 19 overs
Kartik Tyagi, starts with a full toss that surprises Miller. Can only plink it for one. Reviewed for the no-ball, but it’s just OK. Goes wide, given an extra but KKR reviews. Decision overturned. Oh, so unlucky! Perfect yorker, Ashutosh gets an edge into the ground that bounces over the keeper for four! No ball for height! Ashutosh misses out on the free hit! Misses out again! Slot ball, and Ashutosh drives over covers for six to end the over!
DC Live Score: 175/4 in 18 overs
Dubey back, edged to backward point for one. Drilled to cover for a dot. Pace off, smashed straight for one. Ashutosh punches to deep cover for one. Drilled to long-on. Short ball, ramped for four by Ashutosh!
DC Live Score: 167/4 in 17 overs
Varun to bowl out, and Axar crunches him over cow corner for six more! Thrown wide by Varun now. Sliced down the ground for six more! Wide now. And again. Drilled through the offside for two. Gone now! Slower and wider, Axar slugs it into Rinku’s hands at long-on.
Axar Patel c Rinku Singh b Varun Chakaravarthy 39 (25b)
Ashutosh Sharma to the wicket, clipped for one.
DC Live Score: 150/3 in 16 overs
Kartik Tyagi returns to the attack. Oh, KKR has made its Impact Sub, Finn Allen in for Narine. Miller pulls for one. Axar repeats the shot. Six! On a length, and Miller clubs it for six! Tries to go over off and misses. Sliced to deep third for one. Driven straight to end the over.
DC Live Score: 140/3 in 15 overs
Varun to bowl his third. Miller flicks for one. Axar works to short fine, dot ball. Punched straight for one. Miller misses an almighty hoick, runs away for a legbye. Slugged for one by Axar. Punched straight to end the over.
DC Live Score: 135/3 in 14 overs
Green again, Axar takes one to start the over. Miller works it fine for one. Sliced away for one more. Cut to point, dot ball. Short ball, pulled to deep midwicket. Runs at the bowler and drills it through covers for four!
DC Live Score: 127/3 in 13 overs
Anukul Roy to bowl his second, Axar works away for one. Thrown too wide now. Short ball, and KL pulls through midwicket for four! Wide again. Short and wide now, KL batters it through covers for four now! He’s looking so so good. And as soon as I’ve said that, he holes out to long-on! Commentator’s curse if there ever was one.
KL Rahul c Rovman Powell b Anukul Roy 60 (30b)
David Miller takes his place at the crease. Worked off the pads for one to start. Hammered to deep fine for one to end the over.
DC Live Score: 114/2 in 12 overs
Narine to bowl out, KL takes one. Axar punches to the left of point for two. Defended to cover. Quick single now. Pulled for one. Single to end Narine’s spell, and end a very good tournament.
DC Live Score: 108/2 in 11 overs
Tyagi returns, Axar takes a quick single to mid-off. Short and wide, KL has flayed it for four! Pitched up, and KL drives over mid-off and all the way for six! Great shot. Chopped away for one, and that’s a 25-ball fifty for KL Rahul! Lovely knock from the experienced opener. Short ball, and hooked away for four more. Runs are flowing now. And now flayed past point for another boundary!
DC Live Score: 88/2 in 10 overs
Narine for his third, picked up over long-on for six more! Pulled off the back foot for one more. Oh Sahil has been done in by Narine! Slower through the air and Sahil is through the shot early. Tries to pull out but ends up chipping it to cover.
Sahil Parakh c Ajinkya Rahane b Sunil Narine 24 (17b)
Axar Patel in at four. Oooh, beaten on the outside edge! Lovely bowling. Defended again. Cut for one to end the over.
DC Live Score: 80/1 in 9 overs
Varun again, short and wide but Sahil misses the cut. Slot ball, and Sahil takes it over cover for four. Beaten on the cut again. Pulls out the switch hit, and he gets it over third man for four! Cut for one. Single to end the over.
DC Live Score: 70/1 in 8 overs
Narine again, Sahil takes one. Runs down the wicket, and Rahul has belted it for six! Takes the car as well as six runs! Some early aggression from DC against Narine tonight. Down the track again, and chipped for four! That’s the class of the man. Worked to leg for one. Cut for one more. Sweeps and misses, but pitched outside leg so no lbw.
DC Live Score: 57/1 in 7 overs
Varun for the first time today, KL defends. Worked to leg for one. Sahil guides to backward point. Punched away for one. KL cuts for one more. Carved to deep point for one.
Four off the over.
DC Live Score: 53/1 in 6 overs
For the first time today, it’s Sunil Narine. Rahul takes a single to long-on. Thick edge to point from Sahil. Shot! Clears his front foot and belts it for six! Switch hit, and dropped by Rinku! That’s a sitter by his standards at point. Punched to cover. Chipped over mid-on to end the over, four runs to the total.
DC Live Score: 42/1 in 5 overs
Dubey again, Porel defends. Wide outside off. Big slash by Porel, misses out. Slower ball, keeper gathers was there an edge! Porel is walking! The umpires check if the ball carries, it has and Porel is on his way after a brisk start
Abishek Porel c Tejasvi Dahiya b Saurabh Dubey 22 (18b)
Sahil Parakh at three, off the mark with one to third. Slower ball again, falls just short of mid-on! Rahul nearly done in by the slower one. Guided to off for one.
DC Live Score: 39/0 in 4 overs
Tyagi for the first time today, Porel drives and gets a thick edge past third man for four! And crunched down the ground for four now! Porel, who plays for Bengal, is stamping his authority on Kolkata. And now he’s been dropped! Full and Porel swings, gets a thick edge to the keeper, who shells a regulation chance!
Just seconds later, things are over in Mumbai. Rajasthan Royals is through to the Playoffs!
Driven on the up through covers for three now by Porel. Guided past point for one by KL. Pulled to deep fine for one.
KKR all but out
Bad news for KKR fans, a series of quick wickets means MI now needs 33 from the last with one wicket left. Things are all but done now.
DC Live Score: 26/0 in 3 overs
Cam Green replaces Anukul. Starts with a short ball, KL fends it away for one. Porel takes a single to mid-on. KL defends to point. Wooosh! Length ball, and KL picks it up over the legside for six! First of the night. And now driven over the offside for four more! Clipped for two to end the over.
DC Live Score: 12/0 in 2 overs
Saurabh Dubey to share the new ball. KL picks out cover. Single to follow. Edged to the close fielder on off. Swing and a miss now. Good start from Dubey. Porel misses the cut, called wide. Punched to point. And again, good over yields just two.
DC Live Score: 10/0 in 1 over
Porel looks to swing first ball, inside-edged onto the thigh. Punched to covers. Short, and Porel pulls it for four! First runs of the innings. Toss up, and Porel punches through mid-off for four! Punched again, Green keeps it to one this time. No signs of spin for now. Quick single to mid-on to end the over for KL.
Play to begin soon
We’re all set to begin here at Eden, Anukul Roy takes the new ball to KL Rahul and Abishek Porel. KKR don’t know whether it matters if it wins or not.
Hardik falls!
Advantage RR, and it’s Jofra Archer! RR’s champion speedster has bounced out Hardik, and ends his day with 3/17 and 32 off 15 with the bat.
What a bowler, but he won’t have any further impact on the match.
Eyes to the Wankhede
And now we wait. Six overs to go at the Wankhede, and MI is 67 runs away. Hardik Pandya is going on a tear, having reached 31 off 10 balls, while Suryakumar Yadav has also reached fifty.
Will RR reach the final four?
Delhi Capitals Impact Player options
Tripurana Vijay, Sameer Rizvi, Vipraj Nigam, Nitish Rana, Kuldeep Yadav.
Delhi Capitals playing XI
KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Sahil Parakh, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Axar Patel (c), Ashutosh Sharma, Madhav Tiwari, Auqib Nabi, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi.
Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Player options
Sarthak Ranjan, Vaibhav Arora, Finn Allen, Ramandeep Singh, Rahul Tripathi.
Kolkata Knight Riders playing XI
Ajinkya Rahane (c), Tejasvi Singh, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Kartik Tyagi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Saurabh Dubey.
Kolkata Knight Riders wins the toss and opts to bowl first
Crunch time, here we go! Ajinkya Rahane and Axar Patel are in the middle, up goes the coin, and Kolkata Knight Riders will bowl first!
Rahane says the approach will be the same regardless of what happens in Mumbai. Praises his team for bouncing back from a tough start, and for keeping up the intensity. Same team as last time out.
Axar says he would have bowled first, but he doesn’t mind batting first. There has been plenty of reflection on what the team can change next year. Kuldeep and Auqib Nabi return in place of Tripurana Vijay and Mukesh.
Pitch report
The wicket should be a good one today, though there are some dry patches in the fuller lengths. That said, expect an absolute belter of a wicket tonight.
Will Jacks has just gotten out for Mumbai Indians, and Riyan Parag has dropped Hardik Pandya first ball! Exciting times in Mumbai.
What does KKR do if it wins the toss?
There will be a significant question presenting itself to KKR if it wins the toss. The qualification scenarios is steep, but will it opt to bat first or chase if it wins the toss?
Furthermore, with captain Ajinkya Rahane’s strike-rate under the scanner, will it opt to open with him?
Delhi Capitals possible playing XII
Abishek Porel, KL Rahul, Sahil Parakh, Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Ashutosh Sharma, Madhav Tiwari, Aquib Nabi, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi.
Kolkata Knight Riders possible playing XII
Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Manish Pandey, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Tejasvi Dahiya, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakarvarthy, Saurabh Dubey, Kartik Tyagi.
Qualification scenario
Mumbai Indians has set off in its chase of 206 against Rajasthan Royals. If it successfully chases it, KKR will be left needing to beat DC by 77 runs if it bats first, or chase in 12.2 overs if it bats second.
KKR's chances getting slimmer
Things aren’t looking so good for the Knight Riders right now. Brijesh Sharma has just castled Tilak Varma to leave MI 38/4 in pursuit of 206.
Will Jacks has just joined Suryakumar Yadav at the crease.
Injury news for Kolkata Knight Riders
There have been a couple of changes to the KKR squad since its last match. Angkrish Raghuvanshi went off with a concussion in its last match, and he’s been ruled out of the tournament now along with Matheesha Pathirana.
Luvnith Sisodia has come in as an injury replacement.
Delhi Capitals full squad
Nitish Rana, Abishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, David Miller, Rehan Ahmed, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson.
Kolkata Knight Riders full squad
Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Luvnith Sisodi, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Mustafizur Rahman, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Saurabh Dubey.
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of the final league phase match of IPL 2026 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals!
Right now, we are waiting on the result of Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians to work out whether this match has any stakes, but stay with us for all the twists and turns.
Published on May 24, 2026
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