IPL Live Score: Team news
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
IPL Live Score: Captains speak
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.”
IPL Live Score: TOSS!
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
IPL Live Score: Pitch report
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.”
IPL Live Score: Toss in KKR vs LSG is 10 minutes away
IPL Live Score: KKR vs LSG coming to you soon
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
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Eden Gardens this season
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)
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Season so far for LSG
Match 1: lost to Delhi Capitals
Match 2: beat Sunrisers Hyderabad
Match 3: lost to Punjab Kings
Match 4: beat Mumbai Indians
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Season so far for KKR
Match 1: lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Match 2: beat Rajasthan Royals
Match 3: lost to Mumbai Indians
Match 4: beat Sunrisers Hyderabad
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Expected teams
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
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Squads to pick from
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
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Head-to-head
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 Live Score, IPL 2025: Pitch talk
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
KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Form guide
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.
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KKR vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2025: Match 21 of IPL today
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?
