{"id":47970,"date":"2026-04-09T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47970"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:11:08","slug":"ipl-2026-kkr-vs-lsg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-kkr-vs-lsg\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 KKR vs LSG: KKR\u2019s winless start raises alarm as fan support dwindles in early tournament stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders are facing growing questions from fans after another low turnout at Eden Gardens, with concerns over pricing, weather and performance all being raised.<\/p>\n<h3>Low crowd raises concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Attendance has been visibly low in recent matches, and many\u00a0 fans believe the sharp rise in ticket prices\u00a0 \u00a0has played a role. Continuous rain has also affected conditions, leading to reduced interest and uncertainty around matchdays.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the team\u2019s performances have not helped. KKR have lost all their matches so far this season, with one game washed out. The lack of results has left fans disappointed and questioning the direction of the side.<\/p>\n<h3>Poor form or pricing, what is the reason?<\/h3>\n<p>The situation raises a clear question: is it the ticket prices, the weather, or the team\u2019s poor run of form that is keeping fans away? Or is it a combination of all three factors?<\/p>\n<p>With results not going their way and conditions often disrupted, KKR now face pressure both on and off the field. The team management will need to look closely at these issues as the tournament progresses, especially with fan support expected to play a key role at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eden Gardens crowd attendance: 28,805<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div><b>Teams:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Kolkata Knight Riders<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Navdeep Saini, Kartik Tyagi<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Lucknow Super Giants<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant(w\/c), Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div><b>Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Kolkata Knight Riders Impact subs<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Tejasvi Dahiya, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Lucknow Super Giants Impact subs \u2013<\/b>\u00a0Ayush Badoni, Matthew Breetzke, Shahbaz Ahmad, Mayank Yadav, Himmat Singh<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders are facing growing questions from fans after another low turnout at Eden Gardens, with concerns over pricing,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":47973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47980,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions\/47980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}