Kolkata Knight Riders 2026 Squad, Results & Stats

Kolkata Knight Riders is the Kolkata-based men's franchise in the Indian Premier League. KKR has competed since the inaugural 2008 season and has won three titles, in 2012, 2014 and 2024.

KKR finished seventh in IPL 2026 with six wins, seven losses and one abandoned match from 14 fixtures. The side collected 13 points with a net run rate of -0.147 and missed the playoffs after losing its final league match to Delhi Capitals.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi led the batting with 422 runs from 13 matches, while Kartik Tyagi finished as KKR's leading wicket-taker with 18 from 14. This page uses the active end-of-season IPL squad, so players ruled out and replaced before or during the campaign are not mixed into the final directory.

No. Rain ended the Eden Gardens match with KKR 25/2 after 3.4 overs, and both teams received one point. It belongs in the record as a no-result, not a defeat and not a match with no play.

That single point explains the odd-numbered season total: six wins supplied 12 points and the abandonment supplied one more, producing KKR's final 13.

No. The teams tied on 155, then KKR won the Super Over. The standings therefore count the match as a KKR win worth two points, unlike the rain abandonment against Punjab.

This is an easy statistical trap because both regulation score lines were level. A completed tie resolved by a Super Over and an abandoned match are different result states.

The record was balanced rather than dominant. KKR went 3-3 with one no-result across seven fixtures at Eden Gardens, compared with three wins and four losses away.

Kolkata beat Rajasthan, Gujarat and Mumbai at home, lost there to Hyderabad, Lucknow and Delhi, and split the points with Punjab. Venue reputation should not replace that completed split.

KKR opened with five losses and one no-result, then went 6-2 across its final eight matches. A four-win run against Rajasthan, Lucknow, Hyderabad and Delhi revived the campaign.

The recovery was substantial but left almost no margin for another setback. KKR lost to Bengaluru, won twice more, then finished with a 40-run defeat to Delhi.

No. Rajasthan Royals' win earlier on 24 May had already ended KKR's mathematical route before the Delhi match finished. KKR then lost by 40 runs and ended seventh on 13 points.

Pre-match KKR material described victory as the target for qualification, while the later IPL match report records that Rajasthan's result had already extinguished the chance. The dated sequence resolves that apparent contradiction.