IPL: What happens if rain washes out KKR vs MI at Eden Gardens?

NEW DELHI: Rain interrupted the important IPL 2026 clash betwixt Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians astatine Eden Gardens connected Wednesday, leaving KKR’s playoff hopes hanging by a thread.At the clip rainfall stopped play, Mumbai Indians were struggling astatine 57/4 successful 8 overs aft being asked to bat archetypal by KKR skipper Ajinkya Rahane. The interruption came conscionable erstwhile Kolkata appeared to person seized power of the contest.

However, if the lucifer is yet washed out, some teams volition beryllium forced to stock 1 constituent each — a effect that would severely harm KKR’s chances of reaching the playoffs.Kolkata entered the lucifer knowing they needed to triumph some of their remaining league games to enactment live successful the qualification race. A no-result would permission them with a maximum imaginable tally of 14 points, which would not beryllium capable to unafraid a top-four decorativeness depending connected different results.Before the rainfall arrived, KKR bowlers had delivered an fantabulous start. Saurabh Dubey removed the unsafe Suryakumar Yadav cheaply, portion Mumbai’s apical bid struggled to people freely connected a transportation that had spent astir of the evening nether covers.Speaking astatine the toss, Rahane admitted KKR could not spend immoderate much mistakes this season.“We privation to absorption connected that, we person to triumph 2 retired of two, and we privation to enactment successful the moment,” Rahane said.

Mumbai skipper Hardik Pandya besides said his broadside wanted to decorativeness the play powerfully contempt already being retired of playoff contention.“Every crippled you play, you privation to win. You privation to play your champion cricket,” Hardik said.A washout would officially extremity MI’s run with small interaction connected the standings, but for KKR, it could beryllium a heartbreaking stroke aft their precocious resurgence successful the tournament.