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Posted: 6 hours ago

I think he is retired and haven't informed publically yet

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Posted: 6 hours ago

I heard, he has injured his calf again.

He may play the last game as an impact player.

Edited by Rosyme - 6 hours ago
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Posted: 6 hours ago

Don't think he's gonna participate in any game this season. I also fear this might be his last season.

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Posted: 6 hours ago

I told you he loves RR smiley4

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Posted: 6 hours ago

Originally posted by: Rosyme

I heard, he has injured his calf again.

He may play the last game as an impact player.

He will play only one match in Chennai but not as impact player

He got another injury which can worsen his injury if he comes to play....

Ramkrishna Ghosh is also injured but that is minor one atleast for now

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Posted: 6 hours ago

Originally posted by: Neerasi29

I think he is retired and haven't informed publically yet

He did the same thing in 2019 he wait till right time then announce it during IPL on independence day he will do the same nd his bday is coming so

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Posted: 5 hours ago

Originally posted by: Arpita00001

He will play only one match in Chennai but not as impact player

He got another injury which can worsen his injury if he comes to play....

Ramkrishna Ghosh is also injured but that is minor one atleast for now

Ok but I didn't think Dhoni can do 20 overs of wicket keeping.

Ghosh s young , will recover fast.

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Posted: 5 hours ago

Originally posted by: Rosyme

Ok but I didn't think Dhoni can do 20 overs of wicket keeping.

Ghosh s young , will recover fast.

Csk last homd ground match has time so kar sakte nahi bhi kar sakte kiya pata but he won't play as impact player

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Wounded Knights challenge Orange Army - A month into the IPL 2026 season, and the tournament has already thrown everything at us. Records have been shattered, targets have been chased with ridiculous ease, and every mathematical barrier has been broken. Now, with the playoff race tightening by the day, the remaining weeks promise to be significantly more unforgiving and intense. Match 45 brings the action back to the City of Pearls, where the high-flying Sunrisers Hyderabad go up against the struggling Kolkata Knight Riders at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. The last time these two sides met was exactly a month ago, and the Orange Army made the trip to Kolkata and left with the points.

As things stand - After more than half the season, the points table tells a clear story. The top five teams have created a visible gap from the bottom five, and the divide is only getting sharper. The Sunrisers, buoyed by a five-match winning streak, are currently placed third, and a win here at home will catapult them to the top. They have been the silent assassins of the season, binning every doubt that was thrown their way. For KKR, they have finally broken the losing curse and carry a two-match winning momentum into this game.

Their Super Over victory against LSG has only increased the confidence and self-belief in the camp. But the big picture is far less comfortable. With six games left, every game is a must-win for them to stay in contention. And one believes that a week-long break coming right after a win can be a double-edged sword, as much a blessing as it is a disruption.

Slayers with the bat - It won't be an exaggeration to say that for the Sunrisers Hyderabad. They have been absolutely ruthless with the bat in their recent games, especially in the manner they have gone about getting those wins by habitually posting and now chasing massive totals. For a side that had won all four of their games while defending targets, the last two wins have come while scaling mountains. They chased down 229 with absolute ease, with 9 balls remaining. And then came the heist at Wankhede, where they executed the fourth-highest successful run chase in IPL history, chasing down 244 with 8 balls to spare.

'Travishek' leads the way - This opening partnership is the axis around which SRH's batting well and truly revolves. Five 50-plus stands and two century opening partnerships across nine matches tell you everything about the destructive pedigree this pair carries to the crease. The flip side is just as consistent, though. In two of their three defeats, both openers have been dismissed within the Powerplay, and that early double blow has proven to be a bit of a wound. So the contest within the contest is clear. Survive the powerplay together, and SRH shift gears into something devastating. Lose one or both early, and the equation changes.

For Head, it has been all or nothing this season, but Abhishek has been a different story altogether, going about his business with clinical ruthlessness, match after match. With 425 runs so far, Abhishek is SRH’s leading run scorer this year and has smashed the second-most number of sixes (31) in the season so far.

Mr Consistent - While Ishan Kishan has executed his number three role with efficiency and clarity, keeping the explosive intent of the top two very much alive, it is Heinrich Klaasen who has been the embodiment of what consistency rewarded looks like. The South African has not registered a single one-digit score all season, with 29 being his lowest. Four fifties in the bank, and a batting average of 59.14 that places him second among all batters to have crossed at least the 300-run mark this season, only behind Shreyas Iyer's 61.8. Klaasen has not just been reliable, he has been an immovable force.

Reinforced and mighty effective - Pat Cummins' return has brought a certain authority back to the SRH bowling attack. The discipline, the intelligence, the readiness to bowl the tough overs, it has all been on display in the short time he has been back. But if Cummins is the experience, Eshan Malinga has been the revelation. The slingy pacer leads SRH's wicket-takers chart with 15 scalps. The Wankhede game was the finest illustration. While every other bowler was being put to the sword by a rampaging MI lineup, Malinga held his nerve and walked away with figures of 1/29 in 4 overs. In a game that demanded a 245-run chase, that was no small feat.

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Unsolved problems - The Knight Riders have shown a bit of improvement over the last couple of games, but there are still a lot of issues that need to be addressed in this KKR batting unit. They are one of the teams to lose the most wickets inside the Powerplay. If Finn Allen couldn’t produce the fireworks up top, Tim Seifert’s experiment hasn’t reaped the rewards either for them. Whereas skipper Ajinkya Rahane's form is firmly under the scanner.

One fifty-plus score all season, and just 10 runs across the last three games, including a couple of ducks, is not the kind of form you want your captain carrying into a must-win stretch. Angkrish Raghuvanshi's dip in form after such a promising start to the season has been hard to ignore. The dismissal for obstructing the field in the previous game raised a lot of heat and debate and is an untimely footnote. The common thread running through KKR's batting struggles is clear. It starts at the top, and that is exactly where the answers need to come from.

Signs of a comeback - KKR’s middle order has done a decent job ever since Cameron Green has been among the runs. Not at his destructive best, but something is better than nothing. The bigger story, however, is Rinku Singh. He absorbed a lot of flak for his poor run with the bat earlier in the season, but has since silenced every critic with two back-to-back unbeaten fifty-plus match-winning scores. The previous game against LSG was perhaps his finest statement. It was virtually Rinku versus LSG, with the ball following him to every corner of the field, and poetically, it was he who finished the job in the Super Over as well. The Knight Riders will hope that kind of rescue act is not always needed, but they will be equally relieved knowing Rinku is capable of delivering it.

Spin to win - KKR boast two of the finest spinners in the league, and when both are firing, they are a handful on any surface. Sunil Narine has been at his usual best, as frugal and suffocating as ever, but for a while, he was missing that penetration from the other end. Varun Chakaravarthy has since answered that call, picking up 7 wickets across the last three matches and looking very much like his old self again.

But the bowler who has quietly flown under the radar this season is Kartik Tyagi. The 25-year-old has impressed in his comeback season, and while 9 wickets in 9 matches tells part of the story, it is his execution of the yorker and the wide yorker in the crucial overs that has made the bigger impression.

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