Kolkata Knight Riders gained their first Indian Premier League title in a decade as they stalled this season’s batting dynamos Sunrisers Hyderabad earlier than motoring to an eight-wicket victory within the closing.
Sunrisers had struck three of the 4 highest totals not solely on this 12 months’s competitors however in all IPLs, as they racked up a tournament-record 287 in addition to 277 and 266 throughout March and April.
However they had been rolled for 113 in 18.3 overs by in Chennai, comfortably the bottom complete in any IPL closing, earlier than Kolkata eased to their goal in simply 10.3 overs so as to add to their 2012 and 2014 triumphs, with Ventakesh Iyer (52no off 26 balls) notching the profitable run.
Venkatesh and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (39 off 32) smoked 91 from 45 balls for Kolkata’s second wicket, with Venkatesh hitting 4 boundaries in a row off Bhuvneshwar Kumar within the third over and 4 on the trot off T Natarajan within the sixth.
Sunrisers’ woes began from the fifth ball of the match as Australia’s Mitchell Starc bowled Abhishek Sharma with a shocking supply, with Starc’s countryman Travis Head then dismissed for a golden duck within the second as his facet faltered after electing to bat.
Sunrisers slipped to 21-3 inside 5 overs and continued to stutter thereafter, with the 2016 champions grateful for Pat Cummins’ 24 from the No 9 spot for taking them into three figures.
Kolkata have additionally thumped large scores within the IPL this time period, with a better of 272-7 in opposition to Delhi Capitals, however their bowlers’ sterling working in opposition to Sunrisers meant they had been solely chasing a small goal.
West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell claimed 3-19 and fellow seamers Starc and Vaibhav Arora two apiece, round economical bowling from spinners together with Sunil Narine (1-16).
Narine fell within the second over of the run chase, one ball after pulling Cummins for six, however there could be no stirring comeback from Sunrisers as Gurbaz and Venkatesh took the bowling aside.
Might of the gamers concerned will now head to West Indies and the USA for the Males’s T20 World Cup in June, together with Sunrisers’ South African duo Heinrich Klaasen and Aiden Markram, and Afghanistan batter Gurbaz
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