21.05.2024: Playoffs after the group stage. Unstoppable Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2024 KKR beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in the qualifiers and booked their ticket to the finals. Shreyas Iyer’s team won easily by 8 wickets after defeating Pat Cummins’ team in all the bat-ball categories. Bowling Starc-Chakravarty’s charisma, batting Venkatesh Iyer’s rampage. Knights chased Hyderabad’s target of 160 runs with 38 balls remaining.

Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first. That decision boomeranged for Sunrisers. Mitchell Starc shines in big matches. He cast a spell on fire. Before the end of the power play, Aji speed star broke the back of Hyderabad by taking the wickets of Trevid Head, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Ahmed. He took maximum 3 wickets.

Henrik Klaasen and Rahul Tripathi bat in the middle, Sunrisers returned to the match. The two star batsmen played some excellent shots together. They have a partnership of half a century. He scored half a century. But Tripathi played an innings of 55 runs and collapsed again after being run out by Oehnerik Klaassen for 32 runs. Captain Pat Cummins pulled Hyderabad a bit towards the end. The team’s score crossed 150 by playing an important innings of 30 runs. In the end, SRH scored 159 runs.

KKR’s two openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narine got off to a good start chasing runs. Gurbaz batted aggressively in place of Phil Salt to open for the first time in the season. The Afghan star got out with an average of 23 runs in a partnership of 44 runs in 3 overs. Sunil Narine was out for 21 runs. But their stormy batting laid the foundation for the team’s victory.

Then Venkatesh Iyer and Shreyas Iyer combined to take the team’s scoreboard forward. The two stars kept playing aggressive shots with a cool head. A half-century partnership ensured the victory of the team. Venkatesh Iyer completes his fifty off 28 balls. The KKR captain completed his fifty in 23 balls. Kolkata Knight Riders reached the target of victory in just 13.4 overs. Shreyas scored 58 off 24 balls and Venkatesh Iyer scored 51 runs off 28 balls.