Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) quicks made brief work of the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) forcing the Pat Cummins aspect to unfold on a rating of 113 within the title conflict of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 on Sunday right here on the MA Chidambaram Stadium. On an evening with clouds hovering over Chepauk, KKR pacers inflicted carnage on a pink soil floor which supplied extra bounce for the speedsters.
It all began with Mitchell Starc placing on an exhibition with the brand new ball to place Hyderabad on the again foot by means of his opening spell, returning with a determine of 2-14 whereas Andre Russell, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakaravarthy mixed nicely within the center part to pile the distress with Russell ending with three wickets in simply 2.3 overs, conceding 19.
Put to bat first, Starc with an impressive opening over dimmed SRH openers’ hopes of forming a robust partnership. The Aussie pacer, who was acquired by KKR for a whopping value of Rs 24.75 crores, changing into the costliest participant of the event’s historical past, gave SRH a giant blow as he bowled a top-notch supply to take away opener Abhishek Sharma for 2 within the first over of the innings.
The right-arm fast-medium Vaibhav Arora piled extra distress on SRH as he dismissed Travis Head for a duck. SRH was blown away by Starc’s inswingers because the pacer delivered a terrific supply which Rahul Tripathi mistimed handy a catch to Ramandeep Singh on the mid-wicket.
After three dismissals Aiden Markram and Nitish Reddy then held the cost to take SRH previous 40/3 after 6 overs. Markram then opened his palms and cracked 17 off Vaibhav’s over, slamming back-to-back two boundaries.
Harshit Rana then bagged his first wicket of the night time, eradicating Nitish Reddy for 13 within the seventh over. After some very good stuff from the KKR pacers, captain Shreyas Iyer launched spin by giving the bowl to Sunil Narine, who saved the run move in test.
Andre Russell got here into the assault and acquired a wicket of set batter Markram for 20 and in his subsequent over he eliminated Abdul Samad for 4. Harshit then dismissed Heinrich Klaasen for 16 and the final pure batter of SRH additionally departed leaving Hyderabad’s hope of scoring a giant complete in a ditch. This was the second-lowest rating on the fall of seventh wicket in an IPL last.
Lowest totals in IPL finals
113 SRH vs KKR Chennai 2024 *
125/9 CSK vs MI Kolkata 2013
128/6 RPS vs MI Hyderabad 2017
129/8 MI vs RPS Hyderabad 2017
Pat Cummins saved piling runs and rotating strikes, nonetheless, the captain didn’t information his workforce to a giant complete as Russell bagged the final wicket bundling out SRH for 113 in 18.3. Brief rating: Sunrisers Hyderabad 18.3 (Pat Cummins 24, Aiden Markram 20; Andre Russell 3-19) vs Kolkata Knight Riders.
