IPL 2024 winner: With an eight-wicket thumping of Sunrisers Hyderabad in a lopsided final in Chennai on Sunday, Kolkata Knight Riders won their third Indian Premier League championship.
IPL 2024 winner, After defeating Hyderabad in the first qualifying match on Tuesday, Kolkata—who led the 10-team league’s group stage—became even more dominant in the summit match, which lasted 29 overs.
As his team was skittled out for 113 runs in 18.3 overs, Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins was left to lament his choice to bat first.
MVP of the game To startle Hyderabad, Mitchell Starc struck for two runs as his new ball partner Vaibhav Arora removed the dangerous Travis Head for a first-ball duck.
Hyderabad withered away in 19 overs as Kolkata’s legendary all-rounder Andre Russell got three vital wickets, including those of South Africa’s Aiden Markram and the opposing captain Cummins.
Cummins dismissed Sunil Narine in the second over when the team was defending the lowest score in an IPL final, but they were unable to pull off the necessary miracle.
A sea of purple jerseys, including that of franchise co-owner and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, as Kolkata thrash through in 10.3 overs thanks to the undefeated 52 off 26 balls scored by Venkatesh Iyer and Rahmanullah Gurbaz.
“I have no words to express. Rugged West Indies player Russell wept and stated, “It means so much.”
It makes me delighted that we all exercised extreme discipline and had a single objective in mind. I’ve benefited greatly from this series. It’s a significant gift that we all gave them.”
Gautam Gambhir, the coach of Kolkata who led the team to IPL victories in 2012 and 2014, had a wonderful night.
“They bowled really well, in my opinion. Evidently insufficient for tonight… Cummins remarked of his team’s batting effort, “They didn’t give us anything.”
“That wicket was challenging. It didn’t seem to be comparable to a 200-plus wicket. We could have had a chance if 160 had been present.
Despite losing to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the playoffs, veteran Virat Kohli emerged victorious as the league’s top scorer with 741 runs from 15 games, earning him the orange cap.
Despite his team’s lack of postseason success, Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel took home the purple cap as the league’s most successful bowler with 24 wickets from 14 games.
Because of his excellence all around, Narine of Kolkata was named the Most Valuable Player of the season.
IPL 2024 winner Championship KKR ( Kolkata Knight Riders won their third Indian Premier League championship)
