Kolkata Knight Riders claimed the IPL 2024 title with a complete victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday however the summit conflict was not with out controversy. KKR opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz was left fuming following a controversial LBW resolution that prevented him from scoring a half-century. In the course of the ninth over of the KKR innings, Gurbaz went for a sweep shot towards Shahbaz Ahmed however the ball turned a bit and hits his pads. The on-field umpire raised his finger however Gurbaz rapidly took a evaluate and the batter regarded extraordinarily assured that he was not-out.

The third umpire checked for an inside edge however didn’t discover something conclusive and Ravi Shastri stated on commentary that ball-tracking and UltraEdge usually are not working. The third umpire in the end dominated in SRH’s favour leaving Gurbaz visibly upset.

KKR rode a flamboyant half-century from Venkatesh Iyer following a powerful bowling present from Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc and Harshit Rana to defeat SRH by 8 wickets within the IPL 2024 ultimate.

Having misplaced the toss, KKR produced a scientific effort with the ball to dismiss SRH for 113, the bottom ever whole in an IPL title conflict.

KKR chased down the goal of 114 with as many as 57 balls to spare. Venkatesh Iyer remained not out on 52 off 26 balls.

Mitchell Starc (2/14), Andre Russell (3/19) and Harshit Rana (2/24) had been probably the most profitable bowlers for the Knight Riders, as SRH merely failed to show up for the large sport.

Opting to bat first, SRH had been off to a disastrous begin as they misplaced their prime weapons Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head with simply six runs on the board, with the latter getting dismissed for a first-ball duck to a gorgeous outswinger.

Earlier than that, Abhishek was bowled by Mitchell Starc on the fifth ball of the primary over, a peach of a supply opening up the left-hander earlier than hitting the highest of the off stump.

SRH had been in all types of hassle as Starc accounted for the wicket of Rahul Tripathi to go away them reeling at 21/3 within the fifth over, the swing doing the trick for KKR bowlers early on.

First-change bowler Harshit Rana continued the great work and removed Nitish Reddy (13). Andre Russell dismissed Aiden Markram in his first over as SRH slipped to 62/5 within the eleventh over.

(With PTI inputs)