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KKR vs SRH IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: Qualifier 1 of IPL 2024 looked like the final of World Cup 2023. Pat Cummins made the same mistake here as Team India captain Rohit Sharma had made the same mistake on the ground in Ahmedabad. Rohit Sharma also won the toss and chose to bat first and his team lost the World Cup. This time Pat Cummins repeated the same mistake and lost his way to the final of IPL 2024 while batting first. It is noteworthy that Kolkata Knight Riders reached the finals by defeating Sunrisers due to the excellent performance of the bowlers and then the excellent batting of captain Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer. Shreyas Iyer played unbeaten half-centuries of 58 and Venkatesh Iyer of 51 runs.
Did not like Cummins' decision
Earlier today, Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first. Hyderabad had a very bad start when they came to bat. He lost the wickets of the opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma in the first two overs. Mitchell Marsh gave the first blow to Hyderabad by clean bowling Travis Head (nil). After this Vaibhav Arora sent Abhishek (3) to the pavilion. Nitish Kumar Reddy (9) returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs in the fifth over. After this Rahul Tripathi and Heinrich Klaasen took over the innings. In the 11th over, Varun Chakraborty got Klaasen caught out by Rinku. Clausen scored (32) runs in 21 balls, hitting three fours and a six. Shahbaz Ahmed (0) and Sanveer Singh (0) returned to the pavilion on the lines of coming and going.
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Rahul Tripathi's runout upset
Rahul Tripathi was run out in the 14th over due to lack of coordination. Rahul Tripathi played an innings of 55 runs in 35 balls, hitting seven fours and one six. Abdul Samad was out after scoring (16) runs in 12 balls. Kolkata bowlers continued the pressure created from the beginning and did not allow Hyderabad batsmen to play freely. In the 16th over, Varun Chakraborty gave the ninth blow to Hyderabad by LBWing Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0). Captain Pat Cummins hit two fours and two sixes and scored 30 runs in 24 balls, taking the team to a respectable score. The entire Hyderabad team could score only 159 runs in 19.3 overs. Mitchell Starc took three wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders. Varun Chakraborty got two wickets. Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Andre Russell and Sunil Narayan dismissed one batsman each.
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great start
Kolkata Knight Riders had a great start to chase the target of 160 runs. The opening pair of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narayan added 44 runs for the first wicket. T Natarajan gave the first success to Hyderabad by dismissing Gurbaz in the fourth over. Gurbaz scored 23 runs in 14 balls. Whereas Sunil Narayan was out after scoring 21 runs in 16 balls. Captain Shreyas Iyer played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs hitting five fours and four sixes in 24 balls. Venkatesh Iyer scored unbeaten (51) runs in 28 balls with the help of five fours and four sixes. Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by eight wickets after scoring 164 runs for two wickets in 13.4 overs. Pat Cummins and T Natarajan took one wicket each for Hyderabad.