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Ahmedabad: Kolkata Knight Riders have entered the finals of IPL-2024 by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets. In the match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, batting first, scored 159 runs for 10 wickets in 19.3 overs. In reply, Kolkata achieved the target by losing 2 wickets in just 13.4 overs. After the defeat against KKR, Hyderabad will get another chance to reach the finals. Hyderabad will now play the eliminator.
Kolkata's aggressive start in powerplay
Kolkata had a good start in chasing the target. Gurbaz and Narine shared a 44-run partnership for the first wicket. Gurbaz was dismissed after scoring 23 runs off 14 balls. In the powerplay, Kolkata scored 63 runs for 1 wicket. Narine became the victim of Cummins after scoring 21 runs.
Iyer scored both half centuries for Kolkata
The batting pair of captain Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer made it. Both shared a 97-run partnership for the third wicket. Venkatesh Iyer remained unbeaten on 51 runs off 28 balls with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes. While Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 58 runs off 24 balls with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes.
Hyderabad Start
Sunrisers Hyderabad got a jolt on the second ball itself after winning the toss and batting first. Mitchell Starc bowled Travis Hayden (0). Then Abhishek Sharma became the victim of Vaibhav Arora after scoring 3 runs. Starc pushed Hyderabad on the backfoot by dismissing Nitish Reddy (9) and Shahbaz Ahmed (0) in the fifth over.
Half century for Rahul Tripathi
Rahul Tripathi scored the highest 55 runs for Hyderabad. Tripathi scored 55 runs in 35 balls with the help of 7 fours and 1 six. Heinrich Klaasen scored 32 runs on 21 balls. Abdul Samad was out after scoring just 16 runs. Sanveer Singh was out on 0 runs.
In the end, Pat Cummins scored 30 runs in 24 balls with the help of two fours and two sixes and took the team's score close to 160. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was out on 0 runs. For Kolkata, Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets for 34 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Varun Chakraborty got two successes. Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Narine and Russell got one wicket each.
