In the 17th season of IPL, the Kolkata Knight Riders team, under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, showed a great game in the final match as well and won it by a one-sided 8 wickets, ending the 10-year drought of winning the trophy. This season, Venkatesh Iyer from the KKR team played a very important role in the batting order and scored a total of 370 runs in 15 matches in which his average was 46.25. At the same time, Iyer’s brilliant performance was seen in the playoff matches and he played a brilliant half-century in the final match along with the Qualifier-1 match.
Venkatesh Iyer became the first player to do so in IPL history
Venkatesh Iyer has now become the first player in the history of IPL, whose bat has scored 50 plus in 4 consecutive innings in playoff matches. While Iyer played an innings of 51 runs in the first qualifier match of this season, he scored 52 runs in the final match. In this case, Iyer has broken the record of Lendl Simmons, who played three consecutive innings of 50 plus scores in IPL playoff matches. At the same time, Iyer has now come second after Suresh Raina in terms of playing half-century innings in IPL playoff matches. Raina has a record of scoring a total of 7 half-centuries in IPL playoff or knockout matches, while Iyer has scored 5 half-centuries.
KKR was defeated in just three matches in IPL 2024 season
The Kolkata Knight Riders team lost only 3 matches in the 17th season of IPL, which is jointly the most matches lost by any team in a season. Earlier, in the first IPL season played in the year 2008, the Rajasthan Royals team also lost only 3 matches. At number two in this list is the Gujarat Titans team, who lost only 4 matches in the IPL season played in the year 2022.
Teams with the least number of losses in a single IPL season
- Rajasthan Royals- 3 losses (2008)
- Kolkata Knight Riders- 3 losses (year 2024)
- Gujarat Titans- 4 losses (2022)
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