New Delhi. Kolkata Knight Riders have won the IPL 2024 title by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kolkata (KKR) and Hyderabad (SRH) were the two best teams of IPL 2024. They were at the top-2 in the points table. There was hope of a close contest. But KKR made it the most one-sided final in history. Shreyas Iyer’s team KKR first restricted SRH to just 113 runs in the IPL final. After this, won the match in 10.3 overs. KKR has won the IPL title for the third time.
In this victory of IPL 2024, the players of Kolkata Knight Riders are being praised as much as the mentor Gautam Gambhir. And it is not a mere coincidence that Gautam Gambhir has contributed to getting all three titles of IPL. KKR won the first two titles (2012 and 2014) under the captaincy of Gambhir. Now in 2024, when KKR won the title, Gautam Gambhir is the mentor of the team.
IPL Final KKR vs SRH: The one who snatched the World Cup from India, scored a century in the final, KKR did not even let him open his account
The final of IPL 2024 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat first but his batsmen disappointed. KKR started taking wickets from the very first over and bundled out SRH for just 113 runs. In this way, the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, which had scored the highest score in the IPL, scored the lowest score in the final. The SRH team could not even play the full 20 overs. It collapsed in 18.3 overs.
Hyderabad’s batting flopped badly
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batting flopped badly. Its star opener Travis Head returned to the pavilion with a golden duck while the other opener Abhishek Sharma could score only 2 runs. Rahul Tripathi, who came to bat at number three, was out after scoring 9 runs. In this way, Sunrisers Hyderabad lost its top-3 batsmen for just 21 runs.
Cummins crosses 100 runs
After the top order flopped badly, the middle order also disappointed. Nitish Reddy got out after scoring 13 runs, Heinrich Klaasen 16, Shahbaz Ahmed 8 and Abdul Samad 4 runs. Due to this, SRH was in danger of getting all out under 100 runs. Captain Pat Cummins played an innings of 24 runs and took his team to 113 runs. Andre Russell took the maximum of 3 wickets from KKR. Mitchell Starc and Harshit Rana took two wickets each.
Venkatesh-Gurbaz’s winning partnership
The target of 114 runs was never difficult and the way KKR batted, it seemed that they could have easily achieved a score of more than 200. Opener Sunil Narine could not do much in batting in the final and was dismissed after scoring 6 runs. But Venkatesh Iyer (52) and opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz (39), who came at number three, brought their team close to the target by batting explosively. Both of them took their team to 102 runs by making a partnership of 91 runs in just 45 balls. Gurbaz was dismissed on this score. But Venkatesh Iyer did not make any mistake. He, along with captain Shreyas Iyer (6), gave his team victory in the 11th over.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : May 26, 2024, 22:25 IST