Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH and KKR will meet once again in the Indian Premier League 2024. But this this time their clash is in the finals of this year’s TATA IPL 2024. SRH lost to KKR in the 1st qualifier and defeated RR in the 2nd qualifier round yesterday. The Purple Army reached straight into the finals after their comprehensive win over the Orange Army on Tuesday at Shri Narendra Modi Stadium.
Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Match Details –
Match – Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad TATA IPL 2024 Final
Day – Tomorrow, Sunday
Date – 26th May 2024
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai
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Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Preview Of Sunrisers Hyderabad –Â
The Orange Army has reached the finals of the Indian Premier League tournament for the third time. They had won the title in the 2016 edition and they couldn’t win in the 2018 season. In the 2016 edition, David Warner was the skipper under whom the SRH side won their maiden trophy while in 2018, Kane Williamson was the captain when Hyderabad lost to Chennai Super Kings in the finals of that year.
Now Pat Cummins will look to be just the fourth Australian to lift an IPL trophy. Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and David Warner are the captains of the Aussie nation who have won an IPL trophy. Cummins is a winner of two ICC titles. He won the World Test Championship tournament last year and ODI World Cup 2023 trophy as well.
SRH bowled well in the qualifier two match which was played yesterday against Rajasthan Royals. Abhishek Sharma can be a handy spin bowling all-rounder for the orange army in the future. Not many players bat well in the opening position and also bowl well in the middle order like Sharma ji did yesterday.
Shahbaz Khan also made an impact with the ball, which didn’t allowed the Royals to settle in a run chase of 176 runs. Shahbaz was also awarded the Player of the Match award for his brilliant performance yesterday. Now he should also deliver in the must-win match like a final, where the pressure will be higher than in a qualifier two match.
The fast bowling also looks good for SRH. Bhuvi, Cummins, Nataranjan and Unadkat are in decent form. But the batting hasn’t produced any power like SRH did in the starting few matches of the tournament. They are the team who have a record of scoring the most runs in the powerplay overs and the first ten overs of the innings.
SRH scored 125 runs without losing a single wicket in the first six overs, which is the highest in the powerplay and they also amassed 158 runs for the loss of four wickets in the first half of the innings, which is also the most after the tenth over mark. However, their batting hasn’t been consistent and it has blown hot and cold in this edition.
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy and Adul Samad need to fire in the final tomorrow. Rahul Tripathi has been good with his fireworks in the games that he has played till now and Heinrich Klaasen was a class act in yesterday’s match. He scored a good half-century which allowed Sunrisers to post a decent score on the board.
Playing XI Of Sunrisers Hyderabad – Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan.
Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Preview Of Kolkata Knight Riders –Â
The Purple Army of Kolkata Knight Riders have reached their fourth IPL final in this year’s TATA IPL 2024 edition. In 2012 and 2014, under the leadership of Gautam Gambhir, KKR won their two IPL titles. In 2021, KKR reached their third final of this cash-rich league tournament. But they lost to Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings under the captaincy stint of England’s ODI World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan.
The Purple Army has been good with the bat in hand. They have had good cameo knocks. Narine, Skipper Iyer and Phil Salt have been good. But KKR will miss Salt in the final as they missed him in the qualifier one match against the same side of the Hyderabad team. Kolkata can open the innings with Rahmatullah Gurbaz in Salt’s absence as they did against SRH in qualifier one.
Gurbaz did well as the opener in the last game which KKR won and they progressed to the finals. In the last match of this year’s IPL, Kolkata should stick to this player from the team of Afghanistan. Gurbaz can provide an explosive start to the innings which could help KKR to apply early pressure on the night of the big final.
KKR’s bowling too has been handy and they have quality spinners as well in their playing XI. Sunil Narine, the most valuable player of the Knight Riders’s side has been good with the bat and ball in this season. With that, all eyes will be on Mitch Starc. KKR will want Starc to get rid of his country mate, Travis Head early just like he did in the qualifier one match.
Andre Russell is another all-rounder to watch out for in the final and Rinku Singh, whose bat is silent for most of the tournament needs to fire as well on the night of the final. Playing XI Of Kolkata Knight Riders – Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh , Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Head To Head Records Between SRH and KKR In IPL History –
The Purple Army and the Orange Army have met twice earlier in this edition of TATA IPL 2024. Kolkata Knight Riders have won both encounters against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 17th season of this cash-rich league tournament. KKR and SRH have met in the Indian Premier League 27 times till now.
The Purple Army of KKR have won 18 matches while SRH has managed to win just nine games till now –Â
- 2024 – KKR won by 8 wickets in Ahmedabad
- 2024 – KKR won by four wickets in Kolkata
- 2023 – KKR won by five runs in Hyderabad
- 2023 – SRH won by 23 runs in Kolkata
- 2022 – KKR won by 54 runs in Pune
- 2022 – SRH won by 7 wickets in Mumbai
- 2021 – KKR won by 6 wickets in Dubai
- 2021 – KKR won by 10 runs in Chennai
- 2020 – KKR won the Super Over in Abu Dhabi
- 2020 – KKR won by 7 wickets in Abu Dhabi
- 2019 – SRH won by 9 wickets in Hyderabad
- 2019 – KKR won by 6 Wickets in Kolkata
- 2018 – SRH won by 14 Runs in Kolkata
- 2018 – KKR won by 5 Wickets in nHyderabad
- 2018 – SRH won by 5 Wickets in Kolkata
- 2017 – KKR won by 7 Wickets in Bengaluru
- 2017 – SRH won by 48 Runs in Hyderabad
- 2017 – KKR won by 17 runs in Kolkata
- 2016 – SRH won by 22 Runs in Delhi
- 2016 – KKR won by 22 Runs in Kolkata
- 2016 – KKR won by 8 Wickets in Hyderabad
- 2015 – KKR won by 35 Runs in Kolkata
- 2015 – SRH won by 16 Runs in Visakhapatnam
- 2014 – KKR won by 4 Wickets in Kolkata
- 2014 – KKR won by 7 Wickets in Hyderabad
- 2013 – SRH won by 5 Wickets in Hyderabad
- 2013 – KKR won by 48 Runs in Kolkata.
Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Fantasy XI
Batters – Shreyas Iyer, Heinrich Klaasen and Rahul Tripathi
Bowlers – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jaydev Unadkat.
All-Rounders – Sunil Narine and Andre Russell
Wicketkeeper – Rahmatullah Gurbaz
Vice Captain – Abhishek Sharma
Captain – Pat Cummins.Â
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