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Kolkata Knight Riders had a pugnacious commencement to their IPL 2026 season, losing their archetypal 2 matches, and things did not amended aboriginal successful their crippled against Punjab Kings astatine Eden Gardens connected Monday.After choosing to bat first, KKR mislaid Finn Allen and Cameron Green early, reaching 25 for 2 successful 3.4 overs. Captain Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi were astatine the crease erstwhile rainfall stopped play.KKR, successful hunt of their archetypal triumph of the season, were rocked aboriginal arsenic Xavier Bartlett struck doubly successful the abstraction of 3 balls.Displaying good power implicit plaything and seam, the Australian pacer removed KKR's 2 prima overseas recruits Finn Allen (6) and Cameron Green (4), who had been promoted to No.
3.The determination to bat archetypal nether cloudy conditions was questioned by erstwhile players Kevin Pietersen, Anil Kumble, Saba Karim and Ravichandran Ashwin.
During the rainfall break, cameras showed KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan successful a treatment with squad CEO Venky Mysore. The speech appeared serious, with Mysore listening portion Shah Rukh Khan spoke and utilized manus gestures.It is not known what the treatment was about. Shah Rukh Khan was attending his archetypal KKR lucifer of IPL 2026.
He was contiguous astatine the crushed with his manager Pooja Dadlani and girl Suhana Khan, who was seen watching nearby."Looks similar they are having a akin conversation. The Badshah of Bollywood, the proprietor of KKR. An aggravated chat with KKR CEO Venky Mysore," said the big during the rainfall interruption show.
For this match, KKR made changes to their playing XI, bringing successful Rovman Powell and Navdeep Saini arsenic Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy were unavailable.Punjab Kings went with the aforesaid squad from their erstwhile match.
