LSG vs KKR IPL 2026 Highlights: Rinku, Narine dominate Super Over, Kolkata beat Lucknow in thriller

First ball is sent through off side and to the boundary as well. It was like the dying stages of a Test match really, no one bothered to give it a serious change from inside the inner circle. Rinku unbelievable. He batted KKR out of trouble almost single-handedly. Then made absolutely no mistakes whatsoever in the field, taking as many as five catches including one big one in the Super Over. And then, he wins it with the bat as well.

Rinku Singh is everywhere. Pant tries to go big down the ground, Powell sprints to his left, takes the catch, realises his momentum is taking him over the boundary and throws the ball inside. Rinku arrives in time to take his fifth catch of the evening.

KKR NEED TO SCORE JUST 2 RUNS TO WIN THIS MATCH.

It looked like Rahane was going to go with Kartik Tyagi for the Super Over but Sunil Narine is there now with the ball in hand. LSG have put their trust in Nicholas Pooran, he is taking strike. Aiden Markram at the other end. Remember, LSG will be deemed all out if they lose two wickets.

No mistakes. Absolutely no mistakes are possible today for Rinku. He is slap bang in the middle of THE ZONE. Tyagi banged in the second ball short, Himmat smashes it behind square for a four. Then Tyagi goes short outside off, Himmat tries to pull again, Rinku runs in deep backward square leg and takes the catch.

LSG need 8 to win off 3 balls

Oh would yoy believe it! Just two legal deliveries have been bowled so far and five runs have come off them. And moreover, Kartik Tyagi has to go off because he bowled two back to back high full tosses. Wow, Shami ran a bye first ball. Then Tyagi practically bowled a beamer at Himmat Singh second ball, no runs ran but the umpire calls it no ball for height. The free hit delivery is also above waist height, Himmat miscues his pull shot and the batters run two. It looks like Tyagi is taken off, that is what should be happening according to conventional cricketing rules. But wait a minute...

Oh surely that must be it for LSG, surely that must be KKR home and clear. Arora goes full second ball of the 19th over, Linde makes room and takes a swing. Caught by Rinku at long on.

Linde c Singh b Arora 8 (4)

LSG 129/7 in 18.2 overs

Chakaravarthy's third ball in the 18th over is back of a length on the stumps. Badoni cramped for room. He takes a swing at it, caught at deep midwicket.

Badoni c Roy b Varun 24 (19)

LSG 120/6 in 17.3 overs

Anukul Roy gets a wicket, Mukul Choudhary falls as well. Roy's second ball in the 16th over is dragged down on leg stump, Choudhary tries to go up and over between deep midwicket and long on. Mishit and catching practice for Rinku at deep mid.

Choudhary c Singh b Roy 1 (2)

LSG 93/5 in 15.2 overs

Caught behind appeal but the umpire shakes his head. KKR review it. Narine had bowled it full on middle and off, Pant tried to reverse sweep and seemed to miss it. Replays show that the ball was very close indeed to the glove and yes, there is the slightest of spikes on the ultraedge. Another disappointing innings for Pant.

Pant c Seifert b Narine 42 (38)

Kartik Tyagi into the attack and its more of the same. Pant manages to whip the third ball past fine leg for four. Then two more single and that's all the runs that come from this over.

Markram is on 29 off 25, Pant on 31 off 32.

LSG 63/1 in 10 overs, need 93 to win from 60.

It may seem like a poor score but they KKR would be quite uneasy with the fact that Pant and Markram have been around for so long. They can't allow these two get used to the pitch and get their timing right, which is what Rinky managed to do before exploding earlier.

Varun Chakravarthy set to bowl the seventh over now. He had just been brought on as impact sub for Raghuvanshi and he is on straightaway.

He seems content knocking the ball around, trying to get ones and twos. As does Markram. A batting side devoid of even a shred of confidence, this.

Pant is on 11 off 13, Markram on nine off eight.

LSG 22/1 in 4 overs

Wow, how about this for a final over. Who would've ever thought that KKR would score more than 155 runs at pretty much any previous point of this innings. Rathi starts with a wide outside off, Rinku denies a single off the second ball. He then lets go of the third but the umpire doesn't give it wide. Rinku reviews and once again, it is a succesfull one. Umpires have got a few wide calls wrong today. Rathi goes back of a lengh outside off, Rinku smashes it over long on for six. Rathi floats the third ball up outside off, Rinku smashes it over extra cover and deep into the stands. Rathi follows up with a length ball but once again, outside off, Rinku sends it over long on for a third consecutive six. Rathi changes angle, but sends in a filthy full toss outside off, Rinku clobbers it over long on for the fourth six. Then Rathi bowls the last ball full outside leg, Rinku misses his paddle sweep, goes for the run but Narine sends him back saying it's a wide. Rinku seems reluctant, and then reluctantly reviews as well when the umpire doesn't call it. Pant can be heard telling Rinku that he heard something hitting the ball and walks off even before the review process starts, which as usual takes hours. Rinku is also off the field pretty much by the time the clumsy review process ends and the umpire's decision is upheld.

And so at around 9.25pm, we are done with the KKR innings. If we go strictly by the clock, we are running late by at least 25 minutes but hey, get into the absolute cutting edge of theoretical physics and you will often see experiments that point to time being an illusion. This is the concept that the IPL also leans on heavily.

This is not a drill. KKR have actually reached three figures. It has taken them 16 overs to do it, which would have been lightening fast in a Test match. But they have lost seven wickets in the process, which would've been bad news in a Test match too, KKR then manage to eck out five runs in the 17th over by Shami.

Rinku on 37 off 36, Sunil Narine on two off three.

KKR 105/7 in 17 overs

Ramandeep Singh and Rinku Singh out there in the middle now. Rinku managed to get back to back fours off Rathi in this over. He is on 26 off 25, Ramandeep on five off seven.

Well, Pant decided to bowl out Mohsin in the 11th over and he is delivering. He had bowled one loose ball second ball and Green tonked it over long leg for a six. Then Green mishits and survives, takes two. Mohsin with another dot ball after that and then Green goes down swinging after that. Dug into the track outside off, Green swings across the line and almost knocks himself off his feet. Slices the shot and Pant takes the catch.

Green c Pant b Mohsin Khan 34 (21)

KKR 73/5 in 10.5 overs

KKR are four wickets down inside the first seven overs and it is Rovman Powell now. Bouncer outside leg, Powell tries to pull but it seems to get too big on him. Gloved to Pant.

Powell c Pant b Mohsin Khan 1 (4)

KKR 31/4 in 6.1 overs

That has to be one of the more bizarre dismissals you would ever get to see in the IPL and it will be spoken of for quite some time. Raghuvanshi wanted a single off the last ball of the fifth over by Prince Yadav, Cameron Green sends him back, the throw comes in at the striker's end and it strikes him on the foot. LSG appealed there, didn't look like they were serious, but they were as it turned out. The umpires send it upstairs and the third umpire deems that the radius of the turn Raghuvanshi had to take while going back was more than what is deemed normal! He takes a couple of looks and then declares that Raghuvanshi was out. Raghuvanshi and Green then argue with the umpires, Shane Watson looks peeved in the dugout as does Abhishek Nayar. One really has to wonder how Raghuvanshi could be expected to turn on the spot and go back but well, the umpire's decision is final, whatever your opinions on it. Raghuvanshi walks off, hits the boundary ropes with his bat on the way and then throws his equipment in anger as well once he crosses the ropes.

Raghuvanshi obstructing the field 9 (8)

KKR 27/3 in 5 overs

Shami continues third over, two singles off the first two balls and then Rahane takes a step down the track to the third one and smashes it over long on for a monster six. Shami looked pretty impressed with that shot. Two singles off the last two balls to end the over, KKR still very much behind the eight ball.

Rahane on nine off 13, Raghuvanshi on two off two.

KKR 13/1 in 3 overs

Now while LSG's batting lineup have floundered, their bowlers have been doing quite the opposite and it has been led by the brilliance of Mohammed Shami. Shami with three dots first up, two of them defended down by Rahane and one played by him to backward point. Then Shami goes slightly wide outside leg and that's the first run for KKR. Another wide is called next ball but Pant reviews it pretty confidently. As it turns out, it had grazed Rahane's thigh pad. Another dot ball and then a single off the last ball.

He came from nowhere. LSG were down and out with a score of 128/7 in 16 overs, cashing a target of 182. And then, Mukul went berzerk, smashing 54 off 27 balls and pulling LSG over the line. Since then, Mukul's scores have been middling at best.

This innings was followed an 18 off 14 balls against GT, wich LSG lost by 7 wickets; a 39 off 28 balls against RCB which LSG lost by five wickets; an unbeaten 21 in 17 balls vs PBKS which they lost by 54 runs and a seven off three balls against RR which they lost by 40 runs.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane(c), Tim Seifert(w), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi

Lucknow Super Giants: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Mukul Choudhary, George Linde, Mohammed Shami, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Mohsin Khan

The 15th over of the GT innings just got done in Chennai and they now need 71 to win from 30 balls with Sai Sudharsan batting like a dream and Jos Buttler holding fort. Yes, Buttler can afford to hold fort because they are chasing just 159 and GT are now 138/1 in 15 overs. This is a match from a bygone era of T20 cricket.

Rishabh Pant had the worst possible start to life as LSG captain last year but ended that miserable season with a masterful century. This was followed by some truly incredible performances for India in the five-match Test series in England, before an injury put a break on whatever cricket he would play for the rest of the year. This IPL was seen as the stage where he could prove that he indeed deserves to be India's all-format wicketkeeper. Instead, it has turned out to be the one in which it has become amply clear as to why he is not in the Indian T20 team. Pant, thus far, has scored 147 runs this season in seven innings at a strike rate of 132.43 and average of 24.50. Last season, his strike rate was 133.16 across 13 innings, even ater the whirlwind century he hit in the last match. His strike was hovering in the 150s in his last two seasons with Delhi Capitals, which was seen as somewhat par but not so much for someone of his talents. Well, those days look like golden days now.

CSK have managed to finish on a score of 158/7 but that doesn't even tell half the story. They were going nowhere at 51/4 in 12 overs. Then, they smashed 107 runs in the last eight overs. This score looks laughably below par of course, especially considering how easily targets of 265 and 229 were chased down yesterday. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his fifty in 49 balls, the slowest of his career, and finished unbeaten 74 off 60 balls. He faced 30 dot balls today, the joint second highest in the history of the IPL.

Pooran was trundling along at a cool 196.25 strike rate for the whole of last season. This season, he has a strike rate of 82.02 to his name after a whopping seven matches.

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