KKR vs LSG Highlights, IPL 2025: Lucknow Super Giants beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 4-runs in high-scoring contest

Varun Chakaravarthy has gone off the field and Angkrish Raghuvanshi comes in as the Impact Sub and is drawn into action straightaway. Saves a couple with a diving effort on the boundary rope

What a way to bring up the 50 partnership! SIX! SIX! Pooran first and Marsh next. Varun the bowler who gets tonked for maximums. The India spinner tries to keep it away from the hitting range but is unable to do against either of the two batters

Seven overs remaining and LSG are 138/1 after 13 overs. 10.62 runs per over at the moment. Mitchell Marsh has been sensational so far. Nicholas Pooran looks equally lethal. What will they finish with? Can KKR curtail the scoring?

SIX! Slower delivery down the leg side, Marsh waited for it and has swiped it over deep square leg. Pressure on Vaibhav Arora as he bowls two wides and then sticks to the line which yields Marsh four more. Easy pickings this!

Fifty for Mitchell Marsh with a boundary off Harshit Rana. 11 runs off the Rana over. This is his fourth fifty of the season already

FOUR, FOUR! Marsh and Pooran both get into the four-scoring act off Spencer Johnson who has gone for plenty today. Make that four more to end the over. 16 runs off the 12th over.

LSG are 122/1

Harshit Rana gets KKR the much-needed breakthrough! He breaks the opening wicket partnership at 99 with a slower delivery that cleans up Aiden Markram. The South African tried to go at it, went through his defence and the stump has been uprooted! Fine knock regardless from Makram

Markram b Rana 47 (28)

LSG 99/1 in 11th over

Ever since taking the strategic timeout, the flow of runs has been stemmed just a touch. Varun C goes for 6 in the eighth over before Sunil Narine is slammed for a boundary in a 10-run over.

Over to Varun once again

Marsh slams a 97m six to Sunil Narine as the flurry of big hits continue for LSG. That is followed by a boundary, pulled through backward square.

13 runs from the over. And that's a strategic timeout.

LSG 72/0 after 7 overs

Harshit comes darting in. Markram makes room to the short ball and slashes it away for a maximum. No one at the third man region to even create a possibility of a dismissal. Next ball, a single brings up the 50-run stand

5.5 overs: SIX! Mitchell Marsh gets into the six-hitting party. Slower one, pitched up, thumped over the bowler's head for a massive six. Into the sightscreen and 90m it goes!

16 runs from the over

After five overs, it is 43/0 for Lucknow Super Giants with Aiden Markram on 28 (16) and Mitchell Marsh on 13 (14). 5 runs from that Varun over.

Harshit Rana is the new man in and is immediately smacked away for a six!

Make that 18 runs off the Spencer Johnson over. 1, 4, 2, 4, 6 and 1 as Markram deals in boundaries and a six.

Varun Chakaravarthy into the attack for the fifth over

Spencer Johnson comes into the attack and concedes 12 runs in his first over. Aiden Markram breaks the shackles with a flicked four through mid-wicket, and Mitchell Marsh follows it up with a massive 95-meter six over deep square leg. Despite a couple of dot balls, LSG pick up momentum and make a solid recovery after a quiet first over. Johnson’s line strays into the slot, and the batters waste no time capitalising.

LSG 15/0 in 2 overs vs KKR

A tidy start from Vaibhav Arora as he concedes just 3 runs in the opening over. Aiden Markram gets all the runs with a streaky inside edge for three, while Mitchell Marsh plays out a cautious three-dot-ball start. Arora finds a bit of movement and even gets an inside edge off Marsh, keeping things tight and testing the batters early. Solid over to kick things off for KKR.

LSG 3/0 in 1 over vs KKR

KKR make one change with Spencer Johnson coming in for Moeen Ali. No change for LSG

KKR XI: Quinton de Kock, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy

LSG XI: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi

KKR skipper Ajinkya Rahane: "We are going to bowl first. The wicket looks really good, it's not that hot. The wicket won't change much. One side boundary is small, that's why we are bowling first. Everyone is looking forward to this game. This game is all about starting fresh, need to take the positives, need to take one step at a time. People are going to talk about it, we know Quinny [Quinton de Kock] and Sunil [Narine] are match-winners. We are not worried about them. Spencer [Johnson] comes in place of Moeen [Ali]."

LSG skipper Rishabh Pant: "Wouldn't say very happy. Not thinking about the past too much. Will take the positives and move forward. As a team we are winning and as a captain I am happy. We are playing with the same playing XI."

Ajinkya Rahane is joined by Rishabh Pant for the toss. Rahane flips the coin, tails is the call by Pant and it has landed heads. KKR have won the toss and decided to field

Deep Dasgupta and Matthew Hayden with the pitch report for Eden Gardens: "First day game here in the City of Joy. It is a fresh pitch, a little extreme on one side of the square so the dimensions are lopsided. On the right is a 57m boundary, while the left side is 70m. Straight is 69m. It is an interesting pitch which has a lot of grass, but when you touch it, it does feel rigid like the lawn mover has gone through it and cut the tops of it. Will it grip and hold during the day? Maybe it will and that could make it a little tricky to bat. There are some overhead conditions, doubt it will produce rain though. This surface won’t change much but as a captain, you’d rather bat on it and take on the short boundary. The captains need to be well aware of that. This has been a high scoring venue, but since it is a day game, it might not be as high as we are used to."

Why are teams playing a double-header in the midweek you ask? That is the case because this one is a postponed fixture from last week. It was originally supposed to have been played on Sunday but Kolkata police asked for it to be rescheduled on account of Ram Navami. With security being a concern, the match was moved and here we are

Eden Gardens has seen a highest score of 200 runs this season and lowest of 120 runs. The average total at Eden in IPL 2025 has been 167 runs

Match 1: KKR (174/8) lost to RCB (177/3)

Match 15: KKR (200/6) beat SRH (120 all out)

Match 1: lost to Delhi Capitals

Match 2: beat Sunrisers Hyderabad

Match 3: lost to Punjab Kings

Match 4: beat Mumbai Indians

Match 1: lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Match 2: beat Rajasthan Royals

Match 3: lost to Mumbai Indians

Match 4: beat Sunrisers Hyderabad

KKR expected team: Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Moeen Ali, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy

LSG expected team: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad/Shahbaz Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, Digvesh Rathi, Ravi Bishnoi

Squads:

Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Maharaj Singh, Mayank Yadav, Shamar Joseph, Arshin Kulkarni, Yuvraj Chaudhary, RS Hangargekar, Aryan Juyal, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Anrich Nortje, Mayank Markande, Spencer Johnson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya

In the five matches between KKR and LSG, Lucknow hold a slender 3-2 advantage. At Eden Gardens, that has been 1-1 in the IPL

KKR vs LSG will be played on a new pitch at Eden Gardens with little tinge of green. Expect assistance for slower bowlers. There is expectation of the ball holding to the surface which could make scoring difficult

Despite their patchy form so far, both teams have a shot at breaking into the top four with a win on Tuesday. To do that, though, they’ll need their key players—particularly in the batting unit—to rediscover their best form.

For KKR, the biggest worry is the absence of explosive starts from their openers—a hallmark of their title-winning run last season. While both Sunil Narine and Quinton de Kock have played one standout innings each, consistency has been lacking, and the team has leaned more on potential than performance.

LSG’s issues run deeper. Their captain, Rishabh Pant, has looked far from his best. After a stellar 2023 where he scored 446 runs at an average of 40.55 and a strike rate of 155.40—with just one single-digit score—Pant has managed only 19 runs across three matches this season, striking at 59.37. With the pitch likely to offer some grip, finding rhythm won’t get any easier.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Indian Premier League where it is double header day. We start with KKR vs LSG before moving up north to PBKS vs CSK.

Amid ongoing talk about empty stands at Eden Gardens - one of India’s most iconic stadiums, Tuesday’s clash between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants offers a chance to gauge the true pull of this rivalry. But beyond the debate over fan turnout lies a more pressing question: which of these two inconsistent sides will finally find momentum and stake their claim among the league’s frontrunners?