KKR wins 3rd IPL title , blows away SRH by 8 wickets . Starc , Russell shines

  


Korbo, Lorbo and Jeetbo…Kolkata Knight Riders have proved their slogan right. In the final of IPL 2024, the Kolkata team performed brilliantly, they fought and in the end they won the title battle. In the final played in Chennai, Kolkata Knight Riders absolutely thrashed Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets. Shahrukh Khan's team won the IPL title for the third time and after 10 years this team became the champion. Kolkata won the IPL for the last time in 2014. Gautam Gambhir was the captain at that time and this season this player is the mentor of the team and under his guidance this team has once again become the champion.


Kolkata Knight Riders won the final match in a one-sided manner. In Chennai, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and chose to bat first and this decision of Pat Cummins backfired on the team. Hyderabad's innings faltered in the first over itself. KKR fast bowler Mitchell Starc bowled Abhishek Sharma for just 2 runs with a beautiful delivery that pitched & left the batter and hit top of off stump . After this, in the next over, Vaibhav Arora did not allow Travis Head to even open the account as the outswinger took the edge .  Rahul Tripathi could score only 9 runs before he skied one in the air off Starc . Markram(20) fought hard for a while before Russell dismissed him .  Nitish Reddy(13 ) and Klassen (16 ) were both dismissed by Harshit Rana . Klaasen was bowled by a fuller delivery and that was the moment it was clear that there will be one winner .  Overall, Hyderabad team could score only 113 runs. KKR bowlers destroyed Sunrisers Hyderabad's batting. Russell took 3 wickets for just 19 runs. Starc got 2 successes. Harshit Rana took 2 wickets. Narine took 1 wicket for 16 runs in 4 overs. Chakraborty took 1 wicket for 9 runs.


KKR batsmen showed their strength



On the Chennai pitch where Hyderabad's batting flopped, Kolkata's batsmen wreaked havoc. Narine got out after scoring 6 runs but after this Gurbaz and Venkatesh Iyer made the team IPL champion by sharing 91 runs stand . Venkatesh Iyer played a blazing  unbeaten innings of 52 runs in 26 balls sending the ball to all parts of the ground .


Mitchell Starc for his brilliant bowling spell was the player of the match .


Both the bowlers and batsmen of Kolkata Knight Riders made a great contribution in the entire tournament. Sunil Narine scored the highest 488 runs for the team. Phil Salt contributed 435 runs. Venkatesh Iyer scored 368 runs at an average of 46. Shreyas Iyer also scored 350 runs. In bowling, Varun Chakraborty took the highest 21 wickets. Russell and Harshit Rana took 19 wickets each. Mitchell Starc and Narine took 17 wickets each. Vaibhav Arora took 11 wickets.





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