Chennai: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) outplayed Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in all departments to clinch their third IPL championship with a in depth 8-wicket gain in a somewhat one-sided IPL 2024 title clash at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday.
KKR’s bowlers, led by stellar spells from Andre Russell (3-19), Mitchell Starc (2-14) & Harshit Rana (2-24), bowled out SRH for just 113, the lowest complete in an IPL last. In reply, the batters, led by Venkatesh Iyer’s 52 not out off 26 balls, chased down the total in just 10.3 overs to make it the next time the aspect gained an IPL title in Chennai.
Chasing 114, KKR shed Sunil Narine cheaply when he went too early in his flick off Pat Cummins and thick top edge was caught by deep mid-wicket, soon after hitting a pulled 6. Venkatesh released a counter-attack by dancing down the pitch to smack Bhuvneshwar Kumar for two successive sixes, following glancing him for a 4 to take 20 runs off the third around.
From the other close, Rahmanullah Gurbaz brought out his reduce and loft to choose two fours, adopted by outdoors edges providing him two more boundaries. Venkatesh reduce and pulled fiercely off T Natrajan for consecutive fours, just before flicking and swiping handsomely to just take 6 and 4 respectively off the left-arm pacer, as KKR arrived at 72/1 at the finish of electrical power-participate in, also the highest total in a 6-in excess of section of the IPL finals.
Gurbaz took about by sweeping Shahbaz Ahmed for 6 and lofting the left-arm spinner for an additional utmost, happening on the possibly side of pulling Jaydev Unadkat for four. But Shahbaz experienced the last snicker by trapping a sweeping Gurbaz lbw.
Shreyas Iyer opened his account by reverse-sweeping Shahbaz for four, followed by Venkatesh obtaining his fifty in 24 balls and he fittingly concluded off the chase with a solitary to clinch 3rd IPL title for KKR. It also the to start with time Shreyas gets to be an IPL winning captain on his second attempt, just after currently being excluded from the Check crew and BCCI central contracts before this calendar year.
Temporary Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 113 in 18.3 overs (Pat Cummins 24, Aiden Markram 20 Andre Russell 3-19, Mitchell Starc 2-14) misplaced to Kolkata Knight Riders 114/2 in 10.3 overs (Venkatesh Iyer 52 not out, Rahmanullah Gurbaz 39 Pat Cummins 1-18, Shahbaz Ahmed 1-22) by eight wickets.