For the first time in 14 years, Kolkata Knight Riders faced such a misfortune, created a shameful record with two consecutive defeats.

New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders have had a very bad start in the Indian Premier League 2026. KKR has suffered a crushing defeat in two consecutive matches. In the first match of the 19th season, KKR was defeated by Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets, while in the second match, it lost by 65 runs in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. With this, a shameful record has also been registered in the name of KKR team.

In fact, for the first time since 2012, KKR has suffered consecutive defeats in the first two matches of the IPL season. In this way, after 14 years, such poor condition of KKR has been seen again. In the year 2012, KKR was defeated by Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in the first match of the season and in the second match it lost by 22 runs against Rajasthan Royals.

KKR batting was bad against Sunrisers

Talking about KKR's second match, its batting against Sunrisers has been very poor. In the match, Sunrisers team, batting first, scored 226 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For Sunrisers, Heinrich Klaasen played an inning of 52 runs, while Abhishek Sharma contributed 48 runs and Travis Head contributed 46 runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy also played a useful innings in the match for Sunrisers.

In response to this score of Sunrisers, KKR's batting was very poor. Angkrish Raghuvanshi certainly played an inning of 52 runs in 29 balls, but it was not enough for the team's victory. Apart from Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh for KKR scored 35 runs in 25 balls and Finn Allen scored 28 runs in just 7 balls, but the rest of the batsmen could not perform well, due to which the KKR team had to face defeat by 65 runs.