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.
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
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.
