SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 LIVE Score: Travis Head smashes a 22-ball half century; Sunrisers Hyderabad 84/1 in 7 overs

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders Live Score, IPL 2026 LIVE Cricket Score Updates: Sunrisers Hyderabad are chasing their sixth win in a row as they host Kolkata Knight Riders at Hyderabad.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Match Live Cricket Score Updates: Pat Cummins’s Sunrisers Hyderabad will be batting first in the afternoon game against Ajinkya Rahane’s Kolkata Knight Riders in the first game of double-header day on Sunday in the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL). SRH had a bit of a stutter at the start of the season but now seem to have found their explosive best. They come into this match on the back of five consecutive wins.

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KKR also seem to have found their feet after a horror start in which they were without a win for six games. It remains to be seen if it was all too little too late but KKR do come into this match having won both of their previous two fixtures. For them to make it to the playoffs from here, though, they will have to win practically every match and then hope for other results to go their way. They may have played only eight games this season but KKR are already in a zone where every match they play is a must-win.

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May 3, 2026 04:09 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: 50 up for Head

A 91-metre six from Travis Head down the ground brings up his half century. In just 22 balls! What an explosive display of power hitting!

Just a couple of games ago, he was struggling to find the middle of the bat!

Sunrisers have raced away to 84/1 in 7 overs

May 3, 2026 04:02 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: After Head, comes Kishan

If Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head won't get you, Ishan Kishan will!

Abhishek Sharma might be back in the dugout, and Head might be at the non-striker's end. But Ishan Kishan does not let Karthik Tyagi forget who is also dangerous with the bat. he scores 12 runs of that over.

After 6 overs, SRH are 71/1

A run rate of 11.83 for SRH so far today

May 3, 2026 03:54 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: 50 up

FOUR. FOUR. FOUR. Head hits three fours in a row.

Abhishek or no Abhishek, Travis Head continues his carnage! He punishes two balls from Cam Green, bowling his first over, to the extra cover boundary when his Australian compatriot offers his some room on the off side. Then, for good measure, he helps the ball for another four to the leg side.

14 runs from that over.

After 5 overs, SRH are 59/1

May 3, 2026 03:48 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: GONE

Abhishek Sharma what have done! After punishing the Kolkata bowlers for the first three overs, Abhishek throws away his wicket by trying to hit Karthik Tyagi and top edging it to deep midwicket.

A change of pace from Tyagi does the trick!

Abhishek Sharma c Green b Kartik Tyagi 15 (10b 1x4 1x6) SR: 150

Sunrisers Hyderabad 44/1 in 4th over

May 3, 2026 03:41 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: Travis Head smashes away

Single. Four. Dot. Four. Four. Four. 17 runs in an over there with Travis Head smashing away at will!

Vaibhav Arora starts the over well, with just a single. Then gets hit for four boundaries.

On the second ball, he offers slightly more width than you can afford to Head, and the Australian sends the ball flying to the ropes for a boundary at backward point.

Two balls later, another boundary, this time around cover point. Fifth ball, one more four, through the covers. And then, to finish the over off with a flourish, another four through square leg.

After two overs, SRH are 26/0

May 3, 2026 03:34 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: Quiet first over (almost)

Sunil Narine, bowling as an opening bowler for the first time, was shown plenty of respect by both Sharma and then Head. But then on the fourth ball, a slightly short ball, Abhishek heaves the ball over the long on for a maximum. The Travishek pairing is off!

After one over, SRH are 9/0

May 3, 2026 03:31 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: here we go!

Sunil Narine, who is one wicket away from becoming the first overseas player to get 200 IPL wickets, is handed the ball by skipper Ajinkya Rahane. His first task will be to calm the violent storm that Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head, the opening pairing of SRH, can do to bowlers in the powerplay overs.

May 3, 2026 03:09 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: Playing XIs

Here are the playing XIs for both sides:

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 2 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 3 Cameron Green, 4 Rovman Powell, 5 Manish Pandey, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Sunil Narine, 8 Anukul Roy, 9 Kartik Tyagi, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Vaibhav Arora. Impact bench: Allen, Ramandeep, Tejasvi, Saini and Seifert.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Travis Head, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Ishan Kishan (wk), 4 Heinrich Klaasen, 5 Salil Arora, 6 Aniket Verma, 7 R Smaran, 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Eshan Malinga, 11 Shivang Kumar. Impact bench: Dubey, Hinge, Livingstone, Sakib and Zeeshan.

May 3, 2026 03:01 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: SRH win the toss

Cummins spins the coin, Ajinkya Rahane calls heads. It's tails. Cummins decides to bat first.

Two changes for KKR: Seifert and Pandey play for Allen and Ramandeep

Two changes for SRH: Smaran and Harshal in for Reddy and Dubey

May 3, 2026 03:00 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: Pitch report

"Very, very flat. Very, very hard pitch," says Graeme Swann at the pitch report at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad. "it will be beautiful to bat at the top of the order. Will see a lot of runs. But spinners may play bigger part of the game then other games."

If you win the toss, bat first, he suggests.

Ajinkya Rahane and Pat Cummins are out in the middle for the toss.

May 3, 2026 02:46 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: Toss and playing XI news coming up

We're just 15 minutes away from the toss of the game. Since it's an afternoon game, the dew won't be much of a factor, which will play a role in what teams decide when winning the toss.

May 3, 2026 01:58 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: head-to-head

Since 2022, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders have faced off nine times in the IPL. The head-to-head tilts in Kolkata’s favour, with them prevailing six times while Hyderabad have won three games. That record will be tested severely today, when the Knight Riders ride into Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

May 3, 2026 01:30 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: Focus on Rinku Singh

Kolkata Knight Riders come into this game after a wretched campaign, which they are only starting to correct now. They are currently on a stretch of two wins in a row. but Hyderabad will severely test that.

The man at the forefront of KKR’s revival is Rinku Singh, who has broken from the mold of being a finisher and has stepped up as the backbone of Kolkata's batting. An unbeaten 83 against Lucknow Super Giants besides a fighting half century versus Rajasthan Royals highlight his growing influence for the three-time champions.

May 3, 2026 12:38 PM IST
SRH vs KKR IPL 2026 Live Score: SRH's recent form

Sunrisers Hyderabad are in rampaging hot form coming into this game. They have won all of their last five games, crossing the mark of 200 runs in four games in this stretch: vs Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals (twice), and Delhi Capitals

May 3, 2026 12:23 PM IST
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the IPL 2026 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders. It's a battle between a team that's in third spot in the IPL standings who could go on top with a win today and a team that's third from the bottom of the standings who is trying hard not to end at the bottom of the pile this season.

Pat Cummins: I'm going to live life

Pat Cummins has never thought of himself as a leader.

"I think for most of my life I've always been the youngest person in the room. I never really felt like a leader at all," he told Elizabeth Day on her podcast How to Fail.

Then Australia asked him to captain the Test side in November 2021. Then he won the World Test Championship. Then the 2023 ODI World Cup. Then SRH handed him their IPL franchise and he turned them into one of the most watchable teams in the tournament's history, liberating a batting order that had forgotten it was allowed to swing.

Abhishek Sharma, the main beneficiary of what followed, put it plainly on the YouTube show Breakfast with Champions: "Marte hue out hona chahiye, darte hue nahi. I am fine with the team being 100 all out, but I don't want safe scores of 160 or 170."

That was Cummins speaking through Sharma. The captain who didn't seek the role, expressing it through the batter who most completely understood it. READ MORE

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