Two bottom-placed teams – Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders – will square off against each other at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, on Sunday. LSG’s batting has been a major disappointment, and they quickly need to turn a corner in the ongoing season.

On the other hand, KKR would have gained confidence after winning their first match of IPL 2026 against the Rajasthan Royals.

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Sunil Narine needs nine fours to complete 200 boundaries in the IPL. The veteran spinner needs two wickets to complete 200 scalps in the IPL. He will become the third bowler, after Yuzvendra Chahal and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, to reach the milestone of 200 wickets in the IPL.

Matheesha Pathirana needs three wickets to complete 50 scalps in the tournament.

Rachin Ravindra needs 10 fours to complete 50 boundaries in the IPL.

Manish Pandey needs 58 runs to reach the 4000-run mark in the IPL.

Ayush Badoni needs eight sixes to complete 50 maximums in the IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Blessing Muzarabani, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Kartik Tyagi, Saurabh Dubey, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Rachin Ravindra, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra

Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Mukul Choudhary, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Prince Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth, Mohsin Khan, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Himmat Singh, George Linde, Josh Inglis, Anrich Nortje, Arjun Tendulkar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Maharaj Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Arshin Kulkarni, Naman Tiwari