Updated : Apr 17, 2026 23:23 IST
Follow GT vs KKR live score and updates. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI
Follow GT vs KKR live score and updates. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI
elcome to Sportstar’s highlights of the IPL 2026 encounter between the Gujarat Titans and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday, April 17.
Match details:
Date & Time: April 17, 2026; 7:30 PM IST
Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Report
An imperious knock from skipper Shubman Gill led Gujarat Titans to a comfortable win in an IPL 2026 match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad on Friday.
GT 181/5 in 19.4 overs
Ramandeep Singh to bowl the final over! Starts off with a wide. OUT! Short ball and Phillips is caught at deep midwicket. Is there a twist in the tale? He goes after scoring 19 off 16 balls.
Shahrukh Khan is the new man in. 4 needed off 5 balls. Takes a single off the first ball. Tewatia takes a single as well. 2 off 3 balls. SRK slams the ball towards long off and completes a double. GT finishes the game with two balls spare.
GT 176/4 in 19 overs
Vaibhav. A double and a single off the first two deliveries. Just six runs from the penultimate over. 5 needed off the last over.
GT 170/4 in 18 overs
Kartik Tyagi. Full and Phillips whacks it straight past the bowler for four! Another four! Short ball, Phillips pulls past fine leg for another boundary.
GT 158/4 in 17 overs
Vaibhav Arora is back. Wide outside off and Shubman Gill plays a glorious cover drive for four! It was hit in the air deliberately and with great power.
OUT! Gill is gone. Slashes and the ball goes towards deep backward point where Cam Green takes a brilliant catch diving forward. Brilliant catch to end a terrific innings. Gill goes for 86 off 50 balls.
GT 144/3 in 15 overs
Varun for his last over. OUT! Sundar is gone. He lofts the ball straight to deep square leg. An easy catch for Kartik there. Sundar falls after scoring 13 off 13 balls.
Glenn Phillips is the new man in. Five singles from that over.
GT live score: 139/2 in 14 overs
Kartik Tyagi. Shubman Gill picks the length quickly and launches the ball into the midwicket stand for a maximum. Short ball, Sundar gloves the ball past the keeper for four.
GT live score: 123/2 in 13 overs
KKR is bowling out Narine now. Four singles in that over.
GT 119/2 in 12 overs
Varun for his third over. Gill slashes hard and the ball goes JUST over the backward point for four! Would’ve been a great catch had he caught it. In the slot, and Gill launches the it straight over long off for a six. Beautiful strokeplay.
GT live score: 104/2 in 11 overs
Narine. Gill takes a single and reach half-century in 27 deliveries. Gill plays the ball wide of long on and gets a double. Five runs from that over.
GT Live Score: 99/2 in 10 overs
Relief for Varun. He gets his first wicket of IPL 2026 after Buttler hits one straight to Green at long on.
Jos Buttler c Green b Varun 25 (15b 2x4 2x6)
Washington Sundar is the new batter for GT. He gets off the mark with a single to square leg. KKR has regained some ground in the last two overs. Just four singles from Varun’s over.
GT Live Score: 95/1 in 9 overs
Tyagi offers a fuller one to Gill. The GT captain fails to put it away. Tyagi pulls the length back to keep things tight. Couple of singles only from the first four balls. Tyagi with a slow bouncer. Little bit of a leg cutter there also. Buttler misses it and the ball strikes him on the right shoulder. Single to close off the over.
GT Live Score: 93/1 in 8 overs
Varun Chakaravarthy in as an impact sub. He gets his length wrong straight away. Too full and too straight to Buttler, who biffs it down the ground for a six. Couple of quick singles follow for the Titans. Both Gill and Buttler are going at over 200+ strike rates.
GT Live Score: 83/1 in 7 overs
Gill looks in some touch today. He has his helmet off now against Anukul Roy. Reaches out to loft the left-arm spinner over extra cover for a four. Now he goes for a cut shot. Bisects the fielders at point and third man for a four.
GT Live Score: 71/1 in 6 overs
KKR finally breaks through. Sai Sudharsan mistimes a sweep. Top edged and an easy catch for Tyagi at short fine leg.
Sai Sudharsan c Kartik Tyagi b Narine 22 (16b 1x4 2x6)
Buttler walks in and eases Narine over extra cover for a four. Talk about instant impact. He isn’t done for the over though. Picks up a fuller one and sends it down the ground for an easy six. Narine with a well-disguised off-break. Buttler gets an inside edge on it. Past the stumps and the keeper for a four. Titans on the front-foot again.
GT Live Score: 57/0 in 5 overs
Too full from Vaibhav and Gill dispatches it. Over the umpire and into the sight screen. SIX!! Titans well and truly in control of this chase. Gill looks in a hurry. Short from Vaibhav and swatted away by Gill with a pull shot.
GT Live Score: 45/0 in 4 overs
Rahane brings in Narine as he looks to stop the run flow. Short from Narine and Sai Sudharsan whacks it flat-batted for a four. Except for that boundary, a quiet over for GT.
GT Live Score: 40/0 in 3 overs
Anukul Roy into the attack. Gill welcomes him by lofting him inside out and into the stands. SIX!!! Sai Sudharsan wants to join in on the fun. Brings out a slog sweep and gets it away for a six. Full again from Anukul. Sai Sudharsan times the slog to perfection. SIX AGAIN!!
GT Live Score: 20/0 in 2 overs
Kartik Tyagi from the other end. Can he make an impact today. Starts with two dot balls. Goes full. Sai Sudharsan clips it away for three runs to the leg side. Narine with the effort to prevent a boundary. Gill with another flowing cover drive to gather another four. Follows it up with silky straight drive. FOUR AGAIN!!
GT Live Score: 9/0 in 1 over
Sai Sudharsan to face the first ball of the GT chase. Vaibhav Arora with the ball for KKR. Leg-bye single to begin with. Shubman Gill gets off the mark with a double, to the legside. Gill with some tidy footwork before cracking a sumptuous cover drive. First four of the innings.
KKR 180 all out in 20 overs
Rashid Khan to bowl the final over. Green tries to reverse sweep but misses. Now he tries to go straight and misses the slog again. Takes a single off the third ball.
Vaibhav Arora gives the strike back to Green. Green comes down the track, is beaten and so is Buttler. The ball goes for four! Second miss by Buttler today. OUT! Wicket off the final ball. Gets an outside edge and Buttler make a mistake this time. Green goes for 79.
KKR live score: 174/9 in 19 overs
Prasidh. OUT! Kartik Tyagi is run out. Kartik missed his shot but Green went for the single. Green crossed him meaning Kartik was dismissed at the non-strikers’ end.
Just two runs in that over but Green will be on strike in the last over.
KKR live score: 172/8 in 18 overs
Siraj is back. OUT! Narine is gone without scoring. Went for the slog, ends up skying it high in the air. Phillips completes the catch running from backward point.
Kartik Tyagi is the new man in. SIX! He ends the over with a six over midwicket. Perfect pull shot from the number 10 batter!
KKR live score: 165/7 in 17 overs
Ashok. Back-to-back fours for Ramandeep to begin the over. He first upper cuts a bouncer towards deep point and then pull towards fine leg for another. He might’ve been hit on the helmet as well in the process.
Slower ball, Ramandeep launches high in the air and Siraj grabs it at long on. A good quick cameo comes to an end.
KKR live score: 156/6 in 16 overs
Rabada. OUT! Rinku Singh is gone. Went for the slog, gets an outside edge straight to keeper. He goes for 1 off 2 balls.
Ramandeep Singh at number eight. He’s off the mark with a six over midwicket!
KKR live score: 148/5 in 15 overs
Prasidh is back. Full toss and Green smacks the ball wide of long on fielder and gets a boundary. Plenty of low full tosses by Prasidh. OUT! Anukul went for the big shot, and gets an outside edge. He goes after scoring 9 off 7 balls.
KKR live score: 139/4 in 14 overs
Rashid Khan. Green picks him over midwicket and begins the over with a huge six!! This is lovely hitting. Green comes down the track and gets beaten by the turn. Buttler misses the ball as well and it goes for four. DROPPED! Now Green sweeps and Washington Sundar at deep square leg drops the catch. The ball goes for four as well!
KKR live score: 122/4 in 13 overs
Ashok Sharma. In the slot and Green launches the ball into the square leg region for a six! Terrific shot. Bouncer, Green is beaten trying to upper cut. Green reviewed it and it’s called a wide.
Green comes down the track and slogs the ball over the cow corner for another huge maximum! He takes a double and reaches his fifty off 34 balls.
KKR live score: 103/4 in 12 overs
Anukul Roy is the new man in. Rashid Khan. Green attempts a sweep, is beaten and a loud LBW appeal follows. Umpire doesn’t give it but GT has reviewed. Impact outside off, not out.
Anukul Roy is off the mark with a lofted drive over cover for four. Now Green comes down the track and smacks a huge six over long on. Clears leg again and Green pulls towards midwicket and gets another four.
KKR live score: 87/4 in 11 overs
Ashok Sharma for his second over. Starts off with a yorker, a dot ball. Attempts a slower delivery and it falls outside the pitch! It’s a no ball. Bouncer and beats Green! A dot on a free hit.
Green goes for the slog, gets an inside edge and it goes past the short fine leg fielder for four. Another bouncer, Green once again misses his pull - another dot.
Slower delivery, Green lofts and ball lands in between deep cover and point fielder, just a single. Another bouncer and this time it’s been called a wide. Slower delivery, Powell ends up hitting high in the air and Siraj takes the catch comfortably at long on. Powell falls after scoring 27 off 20 balls.
KKR Live Score: 80/3 in 10 overs
Finally, we have an over of spin. Rashid Khan into the attack. Powell welcomes with a deft shot. Sweeps him fine and it runs away for a four. Green also brings out the sweep shot. He takes it from wide of the stumps and places it away for a four through square leg.
KKR Live Score: 69/3 in 9 overs
Green finally middles one. Swings Prasidh for a four through deep mid wicket. Prasidh fires one in and hits Green on the pads. Prasidh appeals intensely. No reaction from the umpire and Gill doesn’t want a review there. Review shows there was an inside edge.
KKR LIVE Score: 59/3 in 8 overs
Ashok Sharma’s turn to have a go with the ball. Green with a quick single to start the over. Powell almost slices one onto his stumps. But he gets his connection right off the next one. Slams a shorter one for a six to the legside.
KKR LIVE Score: 42/3 in 7 overs
First bowling change for Titans as Prasidh comes in. He too gets into the act with his back-of-the-length deliveries. The moment he pushes the ball up, Powell latches onto it. Over long on for a six. First boundary in a long while for KKR.
KKR LIVE Score: 37/1 in 6 overs
Rabada also gets a third. Pins down Powell with his hard length. Powell can only defend from the confines of his crease. Slides one to deep third to finally get off the streak. Green also fails to get a measure off Rabada. Just a single from the over.
KKR LIVE Score: 36/3 in 5 overs
Another over for Siraj as Gill looks to go for the kill. Powell is the new batter for KKR. Siraj beats with a gem of an outswinger. Siraj now takes Green by surprise with a sharp bouncer. GT appeals for a caught behind and the umpire signals out. Green reviews immediately and he gets a reprieve.
KKR Live Score: 32/3 in 4 overs
Seifert begins the over with a back-foot punch against Rabada. Runs away for a four through covers. From the other end, Green is struggling to get going. Couple of scratchy singles follow.
Hard length again from Rabada. Seifert slaps it straight to point. Another wicket for Titans.
Tim Seifert c Phillips b Rabada 19 (14b 2x4 1x6)
KKR Live Score: 24/2 in 3 overs
Siraj with a persistent outside-the-off line. Seifert fails to put him away for the first two deliveries. Taps one to covers for a single off the third ball. Green with a play and miss, before he slices one over backward point for a couple of runs. Superb bowling from Siraj.
KKR Live Score: 21/1 in 2 overs
Kagiso Rabada from the other end. Beats Seifert with the first two deliveries. Back of length now. Seifert smacks it with a horizontal bat over mid wicket for a six. Similar length to Raghuvanshi. Slices it behind deep third man for a four.
Rabada sticks with the length. Raghuvanshi can only poke it to the keeper.
Angkrish Raghuvanshi c †Buttler b Rabada 8 (4b 2x4 0x6)
KKR Live Score: 9/1 in 1 over
Siraj steams in with the first delivery. Seifert defends the first ball before threading the covers for classy four. Gets off the strike with a single to mid off.
Rahane swipes across the line first ball. Top edged and an easy catch for Rabada.
Ajinkya Rahane c Rabada b Mohammed Siraj 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)
Raghuvanshi gets off the mark with a cracking square cut. FOUR!!
KKR openers in the middle
Skipper Ajinkya Rahane will open the batting for KKR along with Tim Seifert.
Impact Options
Kolkata Knight Riders: Varun Chakaravarthy, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Manish Pandey
Gujarat Titans: Jason Holder, Shahrukh Khan, Manav Suthar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anuj Rawat
Playing XIs
Gujarat Titans: 1 Shubman Gill (capt), 2 B Sai Sudharsan, 3 Jos Buttler (wk), 4 Washington Sundar, 5 Glenn Phillips, 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Ashok Sharma, 10 Prasidh Krishna, 11 Mohammed Siraj
Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Tim Seifert, 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 4 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 5 Cameron Green, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Ramandeep Singh, 8 Rovman Powell, 9 Anukul Roy, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Kartik Tyagi.
GT captain Shubman Gill
We wanted to bowl first, to be honest. There might be some dew around. Out batting collapsed in the middle in the last match. It should have been a comfortable chase otherwise. It’s all about doing the simple things right. That always we talk about in team meetings. We are playing with the same team.
KKR captain Rahane
Looking to bat first, want our batters to bat freely. We just want to turn it around, so batting first is a good option. If you are doing well, people will take well, otherwise they will critise. T20 format is all about momentum. One change, Seifert comes in for Allen.
Toss
Ajinkya Rahane wins the toss and KKR will bat first against GT.
KKR replaces Finn Allen with Tim Seifert.
Changes Kartik Tyagi have made in injury battle
Run-up & Loading: He reworked his approach to the crease and his loading phase to reduce physical stress.
Action Remodeling: He made subtle adjustments to his bowling action in consultation with coaches and physios to prevent the “repeating incidents” of injury.
Mental Clarity: Tyagi emphasized focusing on the process rather than the pressure, aiming for “clarity over clutter” in his mental game
Current Form
GT has a balanced start (2 wins, 2 losses), while KKR is looking for its first win of the season.
H2H record
Gujarat Titans (GT) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have faced each other 4 times. Gujarat Titans hold a dominant lead in this rivalry, having won 3 matches, while Kolkata Knight Riders have secured 1 victory.
Pitch News
The game will be played on Pitch No. 6. It is expected to be a superb batting wicket with extra bounce for pacers with a hit-the-deck style.
Riding high
The Titans are riding high on a recent 7-wicket victory over LSG, where Prasidh Krishna (4/28) led a clinical bowling performance.
Buttler vs Anukul?
Stats suggest Jos Buttler struggles against left-arm finger spin (strike rate of 92 in 2026). KKR could use Anukul Roy as a specific tactical matchup against him.
Can Rinku Singh get his rhythm back?
In five matches so far, Rinku has scored just 78 runs with the highest score of 35. His strike rate is 120 at the moment.
GT is the same opposition which made Rinku a hero back in 2023. He smacked five sixes in the last over to win KKR the match out of nowhere.
Expected conditions
It’s likely to be a high scoring match with pacers getting a bit of early movement. Spinners won’t get much of turn off the pitch.
Probable playing XII
Kolkata Knight Riders: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane, Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Navdeep Saini, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi
Probable playing XII
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Jos Buttler, Sai Sudharsan, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Shahrukh Khan/ Kumar Kushagra, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Ashok Sharma, Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada
Hat-trick in sight for Titans
Entering the game with back-to-back away wins, GT is looking for a “hat-trick” of victories. The team’s core is performing well, with Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler finding form at the top of the order and Rashid Khan reclaiming his rhythm in the bowling department.
Winless KKR
Currently the only winless team in the tournament, KKR is struggling with injuries and an unsettled lineup under captain Ajinkya Rahane. They will be missing Matheesha Pathirana, leaving much of the bowling burden on Kartik Tyagi, Sunil Narine, and Varun Chakaravarthy.
Recent meeting
Their most recent encounter during the 2025 season saw GT defeat KKR by 39 runs at Eden Gardens. Heading into their 2026 clash at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
GT squad update
GT has signed Connor Esterhuizen in place of Tom Banton, who is out due to a finger injury.
Leading Run-Scorers - GT vs KKR
Shubman Gill leads the charts, maintaining a high average against his former team.
Shubman Gill (GT): 185 runs (Avg: 46.25, HS: 90)
Venkatesh Iyer (KKR): 125 runs (Avg: 31.25, HS: 83)
Rinku Singh (KKR): 119 runs (Avg: 39.66, HS: 48*)
Vijay Shankar (GT): 114 runs (Strike Rate: 237.5)
Leading Wicket-Takers - GT vs KKR
The bowling charts are dominated by GT’s spin and pace spearheads, though Andre Russell remains a significant threat for KKR.
Rashid Khan (GT): 7 wickets (BBI: 3/37)
Mohammed Shami (GT): 6 wickets (BBI: 3/33)
Andre Russell (KKR): 6 wickets (BBI: 4/5)
Sunil Narine (KKR): 4 wickets (BBI: 3/33)
Will Pathirana feature today?
Matheesha Pathirana has reportedly given NOC by Sri Lanka Cricket however he’s yet to join the KKR squad. He’s not available for today’s game.
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
Ajinkya Rahane(c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Finn Allen, Manish Pandey, Tejasvi Dahiya, Tim Seifert, Navdeep Saini, Rahul Tripathi, Sarthak Ranjan, Rachin Ravindra, Prashant Solanki, Blessing Muzarabani, Saurabh Dubey, Daksh Kamra, Umran Malik
Gujarat Titans squad
Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler(w), Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Ashok Sharma, Prasidh Krishna, Shahrukh Khan, Manav Suthar, Jason Holder, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anuj Rawat, Nishant Sindhu, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Tom Banton, R Sai Kishore, Luke Wood, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma
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Published on Apr 17, 2026
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