Kolkata Knight Riders Win IPL 2024: Historic Victory

Kolkata Knight Riders Win IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders have finally won the seventeenth edition of the Indian Premier League. Today the final of IPL 2024 was played at Ma Chidambaram Stadium Chennai. Kolkata Knight Riders totally dominated the Sunrisers Hyderabad with their outstanding bowling attack. KKR has won its third trophy of Indian Premier League now. Back in 2012 Kolkata Knight Riders have won their first IPL trophy in the Chepauk Stadium itself now they have repeated the history by winning their third trophy again in Chepauk Stadium. Kolkata knight riders won their second trophy in 2014. SRH was looking forward to winning its second trophy after lodging their first win way back in 2016. However this time KKR won the trophy easily. Let’s have a look at highlights of the KKR vs SRH IPL 2024 Final match.

Match Info
Match	KKR vs SRH, Final, IPL 2024
Date	Sunday, May 26, 2024
Toss	SRH won, chose to bat
Time	7:30 PM
Venue	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Umpires	Nitin Menon, Jayaraman Madanagopal
Third Umpire	Michael Gough
Match Referee	Manu Nayar

KKR vs SRH Toss

The toss for the IPL 2024 Finale between Kolkata and Hyderabad was conducted at 7:00 PM where the SRH captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first leaving the bowling for KKR. Cummins said that the pitch is favourable to batsmen and they’ll be looking forward to putting a high score up on the scoreboard like they have put up all season long.

KKR vs SRH 1st Innings highlights IPL 2024 Final

With choosing to bat first Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head opened for the Sunrisers Hyderabad however both of them had to go back to pavilion very early due to the destructive bowling of Kolkata. Kolkata bowlers stepped on the field with an attacking mindset and started dominating the match early on . Mitchell Starc brought in the first wicket for the team after that Hyderabad’s batting order started to fall like Dominoes. Andre Russell was the best attacker as he managed to take 3 wickets in 2.3 over by giving just 19 runs. All the from Kolkata were able to take wickets where Mitchell Starc and Rana took 2 wickets each and remaining bowler’s took one wicket each. Owing to the dominating bowling attack from Kolkata Knight Riders Hyderabad got bowled out at mere 113 runs leaving the easy target of 114 runs for Kolkata. Below is the details for complete first innings.

Batting	RunsR	Balls FacedB	Fours4s	Sixes6s	Strike RateS/R

A. Sharma	2	5	0	0	40.0
b Mitchell Starc


T. Head	0	1	0	0	0.0
c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Vaibhav Arora


R. Tripathi	9	13	1	0	69.23
c Ramandeep Singh b Mitchell Starc


A. Markram	20	23	3	0	86.96
c Mitchell Starc b Andre Russell


N. K. Reddy	13	10	1	1	130.0
c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Harshit Rana


H. Klaasen(Wk)	16	17	1	0	94.12
b Harshit Rana


S. Ahmed	8	7	0	1	114.29
c Sunil Narine b Varun Chakaravarthy


A. Samad(IP)	4	4	0	0	100.0
c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Andre Russell


P. Cummins(C)	24	19	2	1	126.32
c Mitchell Starc b Andre Russell


J. Unadkat	4	11	0	0	36.36
lbw b Sunil Narine


B. Kumar	0	1	0	0	0.0
not out

Extras	13	(W 6, B 5, LB 2)
Total runs	113	(10 wkts, 18.3 ov)
Yet to batT. Natarajan

Fall of Wickets2/1 (A. Sharma, 0.5 ov) · 6/2 (T. Head, 2.0 ov) · 21/3 (R. Tripathi, 4.2 ov) · 47/4 (N. K. Reddy, 7.0 ov) · 62/5 (A. Markram, 10.2 ov) · 71/6 (S. Ahmed, 11.5 ov) · 77/7 (A. Samad, 12.4 ov) · 90/8 (H. Klaasen, 14.1 ov) · 113/9 (J. Unadkat, 17.5 ov) · 113/10 (P. Cummins, 18.3 ov)

Bowling	OversO	MaidensM	Runs GivenR	WicketsW	Economy RateEcon

M. Starc	3.0	0	14	2	4.67


V. Arora	3.0	0	24	1	8.0


H. Rana	4.0	1	24	2	6.0


S. Narine	4.0	0	16	1	4.0


A. Russell	2.3	0	19	3	7.6


V. Chakaravarthy	2.0	0	9	1	4.5

KKR vs SRH second innings highlights IPL 2024 finals

Chasing the easy target of 114 runs R Gurbaz and Sunil Narine opened for Kolkata they were off to a good start until the early dismissal of Sunil Narine by Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins. However the situation was still in Kolkata’s favour as Venkatesh Iyer and Gurbaz made a stable partnership and was able to score 45 runs in 3 overs gaining the control of the match in their hand. Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s spells became a bit expensive giving 25 runs of 2 overs providing Kolkata a winning edge

Kolkata Knight Riders 2nd Innings

Batter	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk)	39	32	5	2	121.88
Sunil Narine	6	20	1	0	30.00
Venkatesh Iyer	52	26	4	3	200.00
Shreyas Iyer (c)	6	3	1	0	200.00
Extras	11
Total	114-2 (10.3 Ov)

Extras Breakdown

b: 4
lb: 2
w: 5
nb: 0
p: 0

IPL Winners List from 2008 to 2024[Updated List]:-

Year	Winner	Runner Up	Final Match Venue	Teams	Player of the Series
2024	Kolkata Knight Riders	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Chennai	10	TBA
2023	Chennai Super Kings	Gujarat Titians	Ahmedabad	10	Shubman Gill
2022	Gujarat Titans	Rajasthan Royals	Ahmedabad	10	If Buttler
2021	Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata Knight Riders	Dubai	8	Harshal Patel
2020	Mumbai Indians	Delhi Capitals	Dubai	8	Jofra Archer
2019	Mumbai Indians	Chennai Super Kings	Hyderabad	8	Andre Russell
2018	Chennai Super Kings	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Mumbai	8	Sunil Narine
2017	Mumbai Indians	Rising Pune Supergiants	Hyderabad	8	Ben Stokes
2016	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Bangalore	8	Virat Kohli
2015	Mumbai Indians	Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata	8	Andre Russell
2014	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore	8	Glenn Maxwell
2013	Mumbai Indians	Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata	9	Shane Watson
2012	Kolkata Knight Riders	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	9	Sunil Narine
2011	Chennai Super Kings	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Chennai	10	Chris Gayle
2010	Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	8	Sachin Tendulkar
2009	Deccan Chargers	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Johhanesburg	8	Adam Gilchrist
2008	Rajasthan Royals	Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai	8	Shane Watson

Conclusion:-

So the seventeenth edition of the Indian Premier League has finally come to an end with an electrifying win by Kolkata Knight Riders. The team owner Sharukh Khan along with Juhi Chawla, Suhana Khan and Ananya Pandey was seen celebrating the win of their team. Shreyas Iyer showed impeccable captaincy this season winning Kolkata their third trophy. Coach Gautam Gambhir was also seen celebrating and it showed how happy he was seeing his team win the third trophy. It was under Gambhir’s captaincy that KKR has won their last two trophies and he has worked hard this season also to win the IPL 2024 cup.