IPL 2026 KKR vs LSG Live Score: Kolkata Knight Riders take on Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL 2026 match at Eden Gardens.IPL Live Score 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Live Cricket Score Updates: Following a worrisome start to their campaign in the Indian Premier League 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders will hope for a change of fortunes when they take on the Lucknow Super Giants in Match No. 15 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday.Having started the IPL 2026 season with back-to-back defeats to the Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad, Ajinkya Rahane-led KKR were also in trouble against the Punjab Kings in a rain-affected game at home, before the weather forced the sides to share the spoils in an unfinished match.KKR vs LSG IPL 2026 Match No. 15 Playing 11: Check HereStory continues below this adRishabh Pant’s LSG also got off to a poor start, losing to the Delhi Capitals at Ekana, but they made a comeback against SRH, beating Ishan Kishan’s side in the final over by five wickets.LSG also go into the contest with a better head-to-head record. They have won four out of the six times the sides have faced each other, while KKR have won only twice.LSG vs KKR IPL 2026 SquadsLucknow Super Giants Squad: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Matthew Breetzke, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anrich Nortje, Himmat Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis, Naman Tiwari, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Prabhu Yadav, Akash Maharaj Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohsin Khan, Wanindu Hasaranga.Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Navdeep Saini, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Blessing Muzarabani, Manish Pandey, Tejasvi Dahiya, Saurabh Dubey, Sunil Narine, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Rachin Ravindra, Prashant Solanki, Varun Chakaravarthy, Matheesha Pathirana, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra.SCROLL DOWN TO FOLLOW KKR VS LSG IPL 2026 MATCH LIVE UPDATESLive Updates‘He’s got a better IPL record than Rohit Sharma’: Simon Doull backs Ajinkya Rahane amid KKR captain’s strike rate debateIPL 2026: Simon Doull has backed Ajinkya Rahane amid a strike-rate criticism of the KKR captain. (CREIMAS)Kolkata Knight Riders' captain Ajinkya Rahane found support from Simon Doull, who said the 37-year-old’s retort was not entirely misplaced. The Kiwi pundit also observed that Rahane’s record in recent seasons even stood ahead of his former India teammate Rohit Sharma, who is regarded as an aggressive batter in the format. “His numbers in the last four years have not been that bad. He averages 30 and strikes at 148 over 30-odd games. People are talking about dropping him. It’s a better record than what Rohit has got in the last four years. It’s an equal record to Ishan Kishan in the last four years. You are not talking about dropping any of those blokes. Hence his frustration. But it comes down to the pressure from a captaincy point of view,” Doull said in a conversation on Cricbuzz. (READ MORE)Stay updated with the latest sports news across Cricket, Football, Chess, and more. Catch all the action with real-time live cricket score updates and in-depth coverage of ongoing matches.