New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) good show towards Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Qualifier 1 of IPL 2024 at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on Tuesday left each fan of the “team in purple” extraordinarily pleased. Like others, co-owner and Bollywood famous person Shah Rukh Khan couldn’t resist leaping for pleasure as he witnessed his staff coming into the finals reside from the stands.
The King Khan was accompanied by his daughter Suhana Khan, youthful son AbRam, supervisor Pooja Dadlani. Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta, KKR’s co-owners, and Suhana’s shut mates Ananya Panday, Shanaya Kapoor, Navya Nanda and Agastya Nanda had been additionally current within the stadium final night, cheering for KKR.
After the match, SRK, Suhana and AbRam greeted the spectators with a lap across the Narendra Modi Stadium. The ‘Jawan’ star not solely greeted the viewers together with his folded arms but additionally enthralled them together with his signature pose.
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Also, whereas greeting the followers, SRK inadvertently interrupted JioCinema’s IPL 2024 Hindi broadcast present, which was being shot reside on the bottom.
SRK then rapidly apologised to former India cricketers Suresh Raina, Aakash Chopra and Parthiv Patel who had been busy conducting the submit match present. After unintentionally bumping into them, SRK gave all of them a good hug.
“Oh, what a man! Legend. He did not even realise that he walked into the show. He was very apologetic, but I said, ‘You made our day. You are the showstopper,” Aakash Chopra mentioned proper after exchanging heat greetings with SRK.
Recapping the match, Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to bat first. After being lowered to 39/4 following an unbelievable powerplay spell by Mitchell Starc, a 62-run stand between Rahul Tripathi (55 in 35 balls, with seven fours and a six) and Heinrich Klaasen (32 in 21 balls, with three fours and a six) helped SRH cross the 100-run mark. But wickets stored falling for Sunrisers as bowlers had been capable of keep strain on KKR. A late cameo from skipper Mitchell Starc (30 in 24 balls, with two fours and two sixes) took SRH to a decent 159 in 19.3 overs.
Starc was the decide of the bowlers for KKR, with a spell of three/34 in 4 overs, as soon as once more making an affect on the large stage. Varun Chakravarthy additionally picked up 2/26 in 4 overs. Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell and Vaibhav Arora obtained a wicket every.
In the run-chase of 160 runs, a 44-run partnership between openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz (23 in 14 balls, with two fours and two sixes) and Sunil Narine (21 in 16 balls, with 4 boundaries) supplied a tremendous platform to KKR. Attacking half-centuries from skipper Shreyas Iyer (58* in 24 balls, with 5 fours and 4 sixes) and Venkatesh Iyer (51* in 28 balls, with 5 fours and 4 sixes) made a mockery of SRH’s bowling and run-chase, successful the sport by eight wickets with 38 balls to go.
With this win, KKR has earned a direct spot within the last, whereas SRH has another shot on the title conflict and can play in Qualifier two towards the winner of the eliminator match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) happening on Wednesday.
Starc took house the ‘Player of the Match’ award.
KKR will now compete of their fourth IPL last in Chennai on Sunday. Now it’s to be seen which staff amongst Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) would lock horns towards KKR within the last match.
