KKR will be one of the finalists in IPL 2024. Who will join them? SRH will have another chance to make it but it has to be a heck of a bounce-back. Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the other teams in contention, who will play in the Eliminator tomorrow. Join us then to find out which of them will join SRH, first, for Qualifier 2, and then the final. Thanks for joining.

Mitchell Starc, POTM: We know the importance of the powerplay. These two sides have done the best there and early wickets make a big impact. Trav and Abhishek like width, so if we swing, keep it tight with lines and bowl hard lengths, we'd get into the middle order. Good luck, I guess. Between Pat, Trav and I we've played a lot here. Liked to get Trav early, doesn't always happen. Bowlers are exciting to watch, raw attack. Lots of skillful players who haven't got a chance yet too. Been great to see them first-hand and have got a lot of wickets in the IPL, and will for India as well.

Shreyas Iyer, KKR captain: Elated. Everyone came and chipped in with responsibility. The rejuvenation was important. It's not easy when you keep travelling across states. We stayed in the present which was important. We maximised every opportunity we got. The way each and every bowler stood up to the occasion (was great). We struck even when the rate went up. Their attitude was great always. When you have variety and the way they have been bowling has been great. No one's taking things lightly, support staff and management are important too. Gurbaz came in and got an impactful start for us, Sunil took the momentum, which the middle-order batters carried on. The only difference between me and Venkatesh is I don't speak (but understand) Tamil. He speaks to me in Tamil. Hope to enjoy the moment and be in the zone for the final.

Shah Rukh Khan goes on a lap across the ground with his children, has some fun with the broadcasters too as we await the presentation.

Deepankar DM : "So, Starc is already in the final. Either it'll be Cummins-Head, Maxwell-Green...only RR don't have a real aussie beast in the XI but they still have Zampa. So either ways, Australia's world cup winners will lift the IPL trophy.. they don't know how to stop winning titles, do they?

Venkatesh Iyer has a bit of fun: I just wanted to go in and bat. We last played on 11th and I wanted to showcase my talent. I didn't imagine we'd get them all out for 160. Credit to our bowlers. In a tournament like this, momentum is important. We've seen that with RCB, we wanted that and have been playing good cricket. We didn't get to play the last game but were table-toppers, that gave us confidence. Owners have been great, SRK gave a pep talk. Were pumped to go out and put up a good show. (On the final) Always special, opportunity. It's a dreamy movement. Coming here first in front of an amazing crowd. Now we have a realistic chance of winning too. We were raring to go out. Touchwood, all bowlers have picked wickets. We wanted to field well, Rinku has been amazing in hotspots. To go out with excitement and do it for the franchise.

Pat Cummins, SRH captain: Try to put this day behind quickly, good thing we have another crack at it. We were off the pace. You have these days in T20 cricket, when it doesn't work out. We didn't get enough starts but didn't go on with bat. Not good with the ball. Sunny (Sanvir) played the last game, we were hoping not to use the batting sub to use Umran but felt the batting was important (due to the situation). (Was there an instinct this would go bad) No. Thought KKR bowled well and the wicket got better, it did a bit early. It happens. Think it's easy to move on, going to a new venue helps. You start again. We have a good body of work too. To sum it up, nothing went their way.

10:45pm: A knockout match between the top-two sides ended up almost as a non-event. This could've been top vs bottom. SRH won the toss and batted, that was the last thing they won tonight. KKR barraged them by attacking first with the ball at the powerplay and the death. The same happened in their batting powerplay, thanks to Gurbaz and Narine, and it continued in the middle overs which meant that it didn't even need to go to the death. Gurbaz and Narine's wickets were non-issues as the Iyers continued to press charge and finished the chase with checks notes almost 40 balls to spare. SRH's bowling was wayward at times but taken down at all times. Fielding was bad too.

Rajkumar Lingav: "Head usually scores 10 ball 32 runs. For a change he concedes that while bowling."

13.4
6
Head to SS Iyer, SIX, KKR make the final of IPL 2024 imperiously They have shellacked SRH, something that they've done previously. The last ball was full and outside off and full and S Iyer launched it on a bent knee, got it sailing over long-on. A big hug between the batters, Shah Rukh Khan is blowing kisses in the stands, the smiles in the KKR dugout can't be bigger.
13.3
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Head to SS Iyer, SIX, S Iyer also gets to fifty in style. Raises his bat high as KKR's song goes loud and the fireworks off. Was a baby ball on leg that was slog swept
13.2
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Head to SS Iyer, FOUR, Overpitched on middle, S Iyer whips it aerially. No one at midwicket and it's in the gap between long-on and deep-mid
13.1
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Head to SS Iyer, SIX, More punishment for Head. This was slot on leg and S Iyer slog swept it with the turn, sails over square leg

Around the wicket

END OF OVER:
13 | 13 Runs | KKR: 142/2 (18 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 10.92, RRR: 2.57)

  • Venkatesh Iyer51 (28b)
  • Shreyas Iyer36 (20b)
  • Nitish Kumar Reddy1-0-13-0
  • Travis Head1-0-10-0
12.6
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Nitish Kumar Reddy to VR Iyer, SIX, This is like Travis Head from the final. Stands tall and pulls it with disdain for a six over midwicket. Brings up his fifty too, he gives a thumbs up to the stands. This was a shortish ball that sat up
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Nitish Kumar Reddy to VR Iyer, no run, Makes room, almost too much, as the slower one is full and on fourth. V Iyer reaches out and smooshes it back to the bowler
12.4
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Nitish Kumar Reddy to SS Iyer, 1 run, Length on middle, whipped to deep square leg
12.3
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Nitish Kumar Reddy to SS Iyer, FOUR, Bumper at 128ks is at the chest but S Iyer has ample time to swivel-pull it in the gap behind square

Karthik Rao: "Is there anything I can contribute to make SRH win today ?" Imagine, maybe

12.2
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Nitish Kumar Reddy to VR Iyer, 1 run, Cuffed down the ground, not perfectly timed though. Long-off runs to the left and cuts it off. Was a length ball on the fuller side that Nitish tried muscling

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KKR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st44SP NarineRahmanullah Gurbaz
2nd23SP NarineVR Iyer
3rd97SS IyerVR Iyer

Indian Premier League

TeamMWLPTNRR
KKR1493201.428
SRH1485170.414
RR1485170.273
RCB1477140.459
CSK1477140.392
DC147714-0.377
LSG147714-0.667
GT145712-1.063
PBKS145910-0.353
MI144108-0.318