Kolkata etched their name in IPL history with a 7-wicket win over Hyderabad as Sunil Narine reached 200 wickets

Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets at Hyderabad on May 3 and the result was built on a spin masterclass that halted SRH's five-match winning streak and delivered a piece of history in the process.

Sunil Narine became only the third bowler in IPL history to reach 200 wickets, joining Yuzvendra Chahal and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in that club, and did so by bowling Salil Arora with a beauty that drifted in and swerved away to hit the top of off stump.

Varun Chakravarthy took three wickets and Narine finished with two as SRH collapsed from 105 for 1 in the ninth over to 165 all out in 19 overs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi then anchored the chase with a career-best 59 off 47 balls and KKR sealed their third successive win with seven wickets and ten balls to spare.

SRH vs KKR: The record that makes this win historically significant

The win takes KKR to 21 victories over SRH across 32 IPL meetings. That is the joint-second most wins by any team against a single opponent in IPL history, matching their own tally of 21 wins against PBKS and sitting behind only MI's 25 wins against KKR. More significantly SRH have never completed a league double over KKR across 14 seasons of the IPL.

This win extends that record and given SRH's dominance through much of IPL 2026 with their five-match winning streak coming into tonight the fact that KKR denied them at Hyderabad adds extra weight to a result that is about far more than two points.

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How SRH collapsed after a destructive start vs KKR

Travis Head was the architect of SRH's early momentum. He clattering Vaibhav Arora for four fours in the second over, slog-swept Narine for six and brought up his fifty off 22 balls. SRH passed 70 in the powerplay for the sixth time in ten innings this season and at 105 for 1 in the ninth over a total of 200 plus looked inevitable.

Then Varun Chakravarthy bowled Head for 61, having him hole out, and the collapse began. Varun dismissed debutant R Smaran and Aniket Verma as SRH's aggressive philosophy backfired on an older ball on a slower-than-usual pitch. Rovman Powell took a one-handed screamer to dismiss Heinrich Klaasen for 11.

Narine then bowled Arora for his 200th wicket and removed Ishan Kishan for 42 in the same over leaving SRH at 148 for 7 in the 16th over. They were bowled out for 165 in 19 overs, the first time this season SRH had been dismissed.

KKR chased down the target with ease

KKR's chase was aggressive early and patient through the middle. Finn Allen hit Pat Cummins for three fours and two sixes before being caught at deep midwicket for a quickfire contribution that carried KKR to 71 in the powerplay. Ajinkya Rahane and Raghuvanshi then put on 84 for the fourth wicket.

Rahane fell for 43 off 36 caught off Sakib Hussain and Raghuvanshi went for a career-best 59 off a wrong'un from Shivang Kumar but by then the chase was done. Rinku Singh and Cameron Green closed it out together. KKR win by seven wickets with ten balls to spare and the most improved side in the second half of IPL 2026 are now three wins on the trot.