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KKR vs SRH IPL 2024 Final: Sunrisers Hyderabad looked completely helpless in front of the severe attack of Kolkata Knight Riders and KKR became the champion. In the final match of IPL 2024 played in Chennai, it defeated Hyderabad tremendously. KKR achieved Hyderabad's target of 113 runs in the 11th over by losing only two wickets. Venkatesh Iyer played an unbeaten innings of 52 runs. Apart from him, Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored an unbeaten 39 runs. A look at some highlights of the match…
Pat Cummins' decision questioned
In the final match, when Pat Cummins came to the field for the toss, he looked quite confused. He said that he is not an expert in reading the pitch. After winning the toss, Cummins decided to bat first, but from the first over of the match till the end of Hyderabad's innings, this decision did not seem to suit his team. When Abhishek Sharma got out in the first over, then the series started. In front of the fiery balls of Mitchell Starc and Vaibhav Arora, the SRH batsmen forgot to play shots. After this, Sunil Narayan, Harshit Rana, Andre Russell also continuously tested the Hyderabad batsmen.
The power of KKR batsmen
After KKR's bowlers, its batsmen showed their strength. The result was that SRH did not get a chance to recover. Captain Pat Cummins did get Sunil Narayan out, but after that he did not get anything quickly. Venkatesh, who came on the field after Sunil's dismissal, was seen making the small target even smaller with his fearless style. Rahmanullah Gurbaz supported him and kept hitting good shots. SRH captain Pat Cummins tried all his tricks, but he did not seem to make an impact from anywhere.
SRH got derailed
SRH's innings was reduced to just 113 runs. Seeing the way Hyderabad batsmen got out, it was hard to believe that these were the batsmen who had rained runs. A new hope arose from every new batsman. Seeing Nitish Reddy's style, it seemed that he would fire something, but he too got out. After this, from Aiden Markram to Abdul Samad and Heinrich Klaasen, one after the other kept returning to the pavilion. Finally, the team's highest individual score came from the bat of captain Pat Cummins. Cummins scored 24 runs in 19 balls. He became the last batsman to fall to Russell.
There was a drought in the power play
This season, SRH's identity was explosive batting in the powerplay. But nothing like this was seen in the final. How scared the SRH batsmen were, it was seen from the fact that Abhishek Sharma took the strike today in place of Head. However, this also did not yield much benefit and a very beautiful ball from Mitchell Starc blew away Abhishek Sharma's bat. SRH could not even recover from this shock when Travis Head played Vaibhav Arora's ball into the wicketkeeper's hands. Here Hyderabad had high hopes from Rahul Tripathi that he would handle the situation here as well like the last two matches. But in an attempt to increase the run rate, Tripathi played Mitchell Starc's ball in the air and Ramandeep Singh took the catch. At the same time, after hitting some good shots, Nitish Reddy also became the victim of Harshit Rana.