Starc bowled Head in the first over: Tripathi ran out in confusion, cried sitting on the stairs, Shreyas got 2 lives; match moments

The first qualifier of IPL 2024 was played on Tuesday, where KKR defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 8 wickets. Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and were all out for 159 runs in 19.3 overs. In reply, Kolkata achieved the target for 2 wickets in 13.4 overs.

KKR bowler Mitchell Starc set the momentum by dismissing Travis Head on the very second ball of the match. At the same time, Rahul Tripathi, who scored the only half-century for SRH, was run out. He sat on the stairs and started crying. KKR captain Shreyas Iyer got 2 lives. Match Moments….
1. Starc bowled the head
Hyderabad batted first. The team’s opening batsman Travis Head failed to open the account, he was bowled out. Mitchell Starc started bowling for KKR. Starc bowled the head on the second ball of the first over.

Starc bowled an outswinger on the first ball and then an inswinger on the second ball, trapping Head in the trap. Head could not understand the ball and the ball went straight to the off stump.

Travis Head was out on zero for the second consecutive time.

2. KKR did not take review, Tripathi got life.
Rahul Tripathi got a lease of life in the third over of SRH’s innings. Starc bowled a yorker to Tripathi, which hit the bat first and hit the pad. Starc appealed for LBW, but it was given not out by the umpire. KKR did not review the umpire’s decision. However, it was later seen that the ball first hit Tripathi’s pad and he was LBW.

3. Russell took a brilliant catch
KKR player Andre Russell took a brilliant catch of Abhishek Sharma. On the fifth ball of the second over, Vaibhav Arora bowled a fuller length ball. Abhishek played it on the covers. Russell, who was fielding inside the 30-yard circle, jumped and caught the ball immediately. Abhishek returned to the pavilion after scoring 3 runs.

Andre Russell has taken a total of 3 catches this season.

4. Tripathi ran out in confusion
SRH batsman Rahul Tripathi was run out due to confusion. Sunil Narine came to bowl in the 14th over. Narine bowled a back of length ball to Abdul Samad, which Samad played to backward point in search of a single.

Samad ran immediately after playing the shot, but in the meantime Andre Russell caught the ball. Tripathi, who was running from the non-striker end, had seen Russell. They remained confused between the pitches, while Samad ran. Russell immediately released the ball in 0.96 seconds and threw it towards the wicketkeeper and Rahmanullah Gurbaz ran out Tripathi.

Rahul Tripathi scored his first half-century of the season.

5.Tripathi cried while sitting on the stairs
Rahul Tripathi looked disappointed after being run out. He played an innings of 55 runs. After getting well settled at the crease, he became the victim of a misunderstanding with his partner Abdul Samad. After getting out, Tripathi sat on the steps of the pavilion and started crying.

Rahul Tripathi sat on the stairs and started crying.

6. Narine bowled Sanveer on the first ball.
Sunil Narine bowled SRH’s impact player Sanveer Singh on his very first ball. After the wicket of Abdul Samad in the 14th over, Sanveer Singh came to bat as an impact. Narine bowled a length ball on the third ball of the 14th over. Sanveer could not understand this, the ball came inwards and passed between his bat and pad and went straight to the stump.

Sanveer Singh became the golden duck.

7. Shreyas Iyer got 2 lives
KKR captain Shreyas Iyer got two lives. The first donation of life came in the 10th over of the innings. In the 10th over, Iyer played a scoop on the first ball of Vijaykant Vijaykant. The shot did not connect and the ball hit wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen and went backwards in the air. While chasing the ball, Clawson dived and completed the catch, however, during this, Rahul Tripathi came in between and Clawson’s gloves and Tripathi’s leg collided with each other. Due to this the ball was lost from the hands of the wicketkeeper.

There was a misunderstanding between Heinrich Klaasen and Rahul Tripathi regarding the catch.

Iyer was given a second lease of life by Travis Head. Head dropped an easy catch of Shreyas. T Natarajan bowled a length ball on the first ball of the 11th over. Shreyas played towards us square. However, the ball came into the hands of Travis Head, who was fielding there, and he missed the easy opportunity.

Travis Head gave a second lease of life to Shreyas Iyer.

8. Shreyas won the match by hitting three consecutive sixes.
KKR captain Shreyas Iyer finished the match by hitting three consecutive sixes. T Natarajan came to bowl in the 14th over. On the first and second balls of the over, Iyer hit a six on deep midwicket and on the third ball on long on, KKR won the match.

Shreyas Iyer hit a total of 4 sixes in the innings.