Kolkata Knight Riders mauled Sunrisers Hyderabad to raise their third IPL title in the lopsided closing on the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday, May 26. The Knight Riders accomplished a meagre run chase of 114 to clinch the title in what was an anticlimax finish to the high-scoring season.Â
The Knight Riders’ bowlers blew away Sunrisers in the primary innings, bowling them out for the bottom whole in the historical past of IPL finals. They then chased down the goal inside 11 overs with eight wickets in hand.Â
KKR massive win prize money after IPL 2024 closing
KKR have won a complete prize money of INR 20 Cr with their victory over SRH in the summit conflict. The whole prize money was groups was saved at 46.5 Cr with KKR taking the largest chunk.Â
SRH, the runners-up, took residence INR 13 Cr after their embarrassing loss.Â
KKR bowlers began on a powerful observe with Mitchell Starc and Vaibhav Arora taking each the SRH openers – Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head in the primary two overs. Head departed for a golden duck as he ended the match on a poor observe. Starc then received Rahul Tripathi in the fifth over earlier than the opposite bowlers joined the occasion.Â
SRH saved shedding wickets at common intervals. Pat Cummins was the very best run-scorer for them together with his 24-run knock from seven down. But he departed in the nineteenth over as SRH had been bowled out for the bottom whole in the IPL closing.
KKR had been cruising away in the run-chase. While Cummins received Sunil Narine in the second over, there was no hiccup in the run chase. Venkatesh Iyer smashed an unbeaten fifty, whereas Rahmanullah Gurbaz additionally scored 39 from 32 balls. Venkatesh hit the successful runs, a single off an inside edge to take KKR residence and in euphoria.
KKR’s Playing XI:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh , Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
SRH’s Playing XI:
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan