KKR IPL 2026 Schedule: Kolkata Knight Riders Full Fixtures, Date, Squad, Venue & Key Matches | IPL 2026

Kolkata Knight Riders will start their IPL 2026 campaign against the Mumbai Indians on March 29, 2026. The Match will be played at iconic Wankhede Stadium; however, the opening game of the IPL 2026 will be played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on March 28, 2026, at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium.

BCCI has announced the IPL 2026 Schedule for the first 20 matches of the tournament. The rest of the matches schedule will be released later after the dates and venues are confirmed by the IPL governing body, as state elections will be held in India during the same window.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) had a poor performance in the last edition, but now, they have focused on building the core squad; however, some of the gaps are yet to be filled. KKR finished at 8th spot in the IPL 2025 Points Table as they were able to win only five games out of 14 matches played throughout the tournament.

KKR Full Schedule 2026 

KKR Start IPL 2026 with an Away Game

The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will start their IPL 2026 journey with an away match against the Mumbai Indians (MI) on March 29, 2026. After the opening game, Kolkata will play their first home match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on April 02, 2026.

Then, they will play their last two games also at Eden Gardens against Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on April 06 & April 09, 2026, respectively. It’s going to be an interesting start from KKR as they will play three games out of four on their home solid which will give them an added advantage over their opponents.

KKR Squad for IPL 2026

Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Tejasvi Singh, Finn Allen, Karthik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Tim Seifert, Rahul Tripathi, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep, Matheesha Pathirana, Sarthak Ranjan.

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