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Gujarat Titans vs Kolkata Knight Riders Betting Preview, Odds & Predictions

Simon Lewis

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Last updated: 16 Apr 2026

Simon Lewis 16 Apr 2026

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Gujarat Titans are pushing up the table after back-to-back wins.
Kolkata Knight Riders are winless after 5 matches, with their best result being a last-ball defeat to the Super Giants.
Explore betting opportunities in handicaps, batters to Score Over/Under Runs, bowlers to Take Over/Under Wickets markets and Match Sixes.

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Jos Buttler is enjoying great form for the Titans (Getty Images).

This Gujarat Titans vs Kolkata Knight Riders prediction preview looks ahead to the IPL group match played in India. The Titans lost their only other match at the ‘Modi’ stadium this season.

Match Details
Recent Form
Head-to-Head Record
Team News
Key Stats
Match Analysis
Betting Markets to Watch
Latest Odds

Against a Knight Riders side that has lost all 4 of their completed matches this season it’s a good bet that the Titans will get back to winning ways at a stadium at which they won 4 out of their 7 matches last season.

Match Details

Match	Gujarat Titans vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Competition	Indian Premier League
Date	17 April 2026
Time	16:00 SAST
Venue	Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, India

Recent Form

Team	Last 5 Matches
Gujarat Titans	LLLWW
Kolkata Knight Riders	WW–WW

The Titans have hit back with a duo of wins after a poor start to their season. The Knight Riders are bottom of the barrel after 3 crushing defeats and a 3-wicket defeat to the Super Giants off the final ball of the match.

Head-to-Head Record

Date	Winner	Margin of victory	Competition
21 April 2025	Gujarat Titans	39 runs	IPL
13 May 2024	Match Abandoned	No result	IPL
29 Apr 2023	Gujarat Titans	7 wickets	IPL
9 April 2023	Kolkata Knight Riders	3 wickets	IPL
23 April 2022	Gujarat Titans Kolkata	8 runs	IPL

The Titans have dominated the Knight Riders in recent years, with 2 strong defeats in their last 2 completed matches.

Team News

Gujarat Titans: The Titans top order is firing on all cylinders, but they owe a lot to their bowlers in securing their back-to-back wins.

Possible XI: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Ashok Sharma, Prasidh Krishna.

Kolkata Knight Riders: After 5 matches without a win, pressure is mounting for the Knight Riders to make space for New Zealand. Sunil Narine hasn’t set the world alight this season while Varun Chakravarthy is wicketless after 3 matches.

Possible XI: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Kartik Tyagi.

Key Stats

Gujarat Titans’ Jos Buttler has scored 38, 26, 52 & 60 in his 4 IPL innings.
Gujarat Titans’ Shubman Gill has scored 39, 70 & 56 in his 3 innings this season.
Gujarat Titans’ Prasidh Krishna has taken 3/29, 1/43, 2/52 and 4/28 in his 4 IPL matches.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Angkrish Raghuvanshi has scored 51, 52, 45 & 27 in his last 4 knocks.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Vaibhav Arora has scored 67, 41 & 38 in his 4 completed IPL knocks.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Vaibhav Arora has figures of 1/52, 2/47, 2/38 & 1/55 in 4 matches.

Match Analysis

Ahmedabad’s stadium presents batters with a flat track laid for runs, with a fast outfield that rewards strokes that beat the gaps. There is some early movement with the new ball for the seamers, evening out fairly quickly to offer the batters plenty of runs after a careful start, although also giving the bowlers encouragement when hitting the right line and length to put batters under pressure.

Sides are happy to chase here, even with scores over 200 being posted on a regular basis and an average innings total touching 180.

There’s not a lot of love waiting in the pitch for spinners, who are often targetted to go over the top and are usually among the most uneconomical bowlers on the board once the dust has settled. Evening dew makes life particularly difficult for the tweakers as well as making chasing more preferable.

The pitch offers true bounce which accounts for a high average six count. Titans opener Sai Sudharsan (42) and Jos Buttler (29) lead the six count in the IPL on this pitch, with Sudharsan’s 7 sixes in an innings of 96 in 2025 being the stadium record for a batter in an innings.

Betting Markets to Watch

Player Performance

Prasidh Krishna is backed to be the Titans’ best bowler after snapping up 10 wickets in his first 4 matches in this season’s IPL.

Score Over/Under Runs

Jos Buttler has scored over 25 in all 4 of his IPL innings this season and is worth backing to score over 28.5 runs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi has scored 45-plus and 27 in his last 4 completed knocks and is in good form to score 25-plus runs.

Take Over/Under Wickets

Varun Chakravarthy has figures of 0/48, 0/31 and 0/26, so he is worth backing to take less than 2 wickets

Latest Odds

Market	Odds
Gujarat Titans Win	1.53
Kolkata Knight Riders Win	2.32
Match to go to a Super Over	29.00

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Verdict

Gujarat Titans v Kolkata Knight Riders

Prasidh Krishna is backed to be the Titans’ best bowler, while Jos Buttler is a good call to score over 28.5 runs.

Varun Chakravarthy is backed to take less than 1.5 wickets, with Angkrish Raghuvanshi backed to score over 24.5 runs.

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