KKR vs SRH Highlights, IPL 2024 Final: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are now three-time IPL champions. The team who had won their previous two titles in 2012 and 2014 with Gautam Gambhir at the helm of affairs, won their third when the same man is back as mentor in their coaching staff. They beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 8 wickets in as one-sided an IPL final as one could imagine.
SRH won the toss and elected to bat first, hoping to get off to the kind of aggressive starts that they had gotten off to when they had dominated opponents. However, it wasn’t to be as Mitchell Starc bowled the ball of the tournament to get rid of Abhishek Sharma in the first over of the final. Vaibhav Arora then removed Travis Head in the first over and from there on SRH were always playing catch up.
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In a clinical bowling performance, every bowler played his part to the T for Shreyas Iyer-led Kolkata. Andre Russell finished with figures of 3/19 off his 2.3 overs. Starc scalped 2/14 off his 3 overs while Harshit Rana returned with figures of 2/24 off his 4 overs. Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy picked up a wicket each.
KKR vs SRH, IPL 2024 Final: Venkatesh Iyer Blows Away SRH in Lowest Run Chase In An IPL Final
In the lowest chase ever in an IPL final, Venkatesh Iyer gave Kolkata a brisk start. The left-handed batter put away any nervous, if there had been any at all, away with a range of splendid strokes, not shying away from taking the calculated risk. As it turned out, even though Kolkata lost Sunil Narine early, the team had already posted 72/1 by the time the powerplay ended.
Hyderabad had finished second behind KKR in the league stage but lost both the Qualifier 1 and final to the same team.
