Kolkata reached IPL final for the fourth time: Won the first qualifier by 8 wickets, Hyderabad has a chance despite the defeat; stark victory hero

May 21, 2024 Divya Bharat

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has reached the finals of IPL. KKR defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 8 wickets on Tuesday.

Kolkata team has reached the final of this league for the fourth time. Earlier the team had reached the final in 2021. At the same time, Hyderabad has lost Qualifier-1 for the second time. Sunrisers still have a chance to reach the final by winning Qualifier-2.

Hyderabad won the toss and chose to bat at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and were all out for 159 runs in 19.3 overs. In reply, Kolkata won by 2 wickets in 13.4 overs. Shreyas Iyer led the team to victory by scoring 4 consecutive boundaries in Travis Head’s over. He hit 3 sixes and a four. Mitchell Starc was the player of the match. He took 3 wickets for 34 runs.

Mitchell Starc was the player of the match. He took 3 wickets for 34 runs.

Players’ Performance: Fifty from Venkatesh and Shreyas; 3 wickets for Starc
Rahul Tripathi played an inning of 55 runs from SRH. He was the only batsman of the team to score a fifty. Apart from them, Heinrich Klaasen scored 32 and Pat Cummins scored 30 runs. Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets. Varun Chakraborty got 2 wickets.

In the run chase, Kolkata captain Shreyas Iyer scored unbeaten 58 runs on 24 balls, while Venkatesh Iyer scored unbeaten 51 runs on 28 balls. There was a partnership of 97 runs between the two on 44 balls. Pat Cummins and T. Natarajan got one wicket each.
KKR match winners

SRH’s best performer

Reasons for Hyderabad’s defeat

Bad start, lost 4 wickets for 39 runs Hyderabad, who were batting after winning the toss, had a bad start. The team had lost 4 wickets on the score of 39 runs. Travis Head returned to the pavilion after scoring 0 and Abhishek Sharma scored 3 runs. After powerplay the team’s score was 45/4.
middle order failed The team’s middle order failed. The middle 5 batsmen could score only 57 runs. Nitish Reddy was out on 9 and Shahbaz Ahmed was out on zero. Clausen could score only 32 runs and Abdul Samad could score only 16 runs. At the same time, impact player Sanveer Singh also could not open his account.
Bhuvi-Cummins could not take wickets in the first spell Hyderabad’s striker bowler pair, who were defending the score of 159 runs, could not take wickets in the first spell. Pat Cummins and Bhuvneshwar Kumar remained empty handed in the first 3 overs. The first success for the team was given by T. Natarajan who came in the 4th over. By then Kolkata’s openers had made a partnership of 44 runs.
Bad fielding, Shreyas dropped 2 catches Hyderabad’s fielding was also bad. The team dropped 2 catches of Shreyas Iyer. The first missed due to the collision between Clausen and Rahul Tripathi, while the second missed from Travis Head. Later Shreyas played an aggressive inning of 58 runs. He made a match-winning partnership of 97 runs unbeaten on 44 balls with Venkatesh Iyer.

turning point of the match

1. Starc’s bowling in the powerplay.
Mitchell Starc had sent three Hyderabad batsmen to the pavilion during the powerplay. He bowled Travis Head in the first over. After that, he gave two consecutive blows in the last over of the powerplay. Due to this the Hyderabad batsmen came under pressure.

2. Shreyas’ catch drop
Shreyas missed a high catch from Clason-Tripathi on the first ball of the 10th over. Then in the next over, Head dropped the catch of Shreyas on Natarajan’s ball. When Shreyas’ second catch was missed, he could score only 14 runs.

Playing XI of both the teams for the match

KKR: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Sunil Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ramandeep Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakravarthy.

SRH: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Vijayakanth Vishvakanth, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan.
impact- Sanveer Singh.

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