Hyderabad strike back, Sunil Narine falls early

Narine gone!

Hyderabad have begun on a positive note. Pat Cummins has removed Sunil Narine in the second over.

KKR 13/1 after 1.3

IPL Final lowest score

Sunrisers Hyderabad have been bowled out for 113, the lowest total of IPL Final.

Lowest totals in IPL finals
113 SRH vs KKR Chennai 2024
125/9 CSK vs MI Kolkata 2013
128/6 RPS vs MI Hyderabad 2017
129/8 MI vs RPS Hyderabad 2017

SRH 113/10 in 18.3 ovs

New star emerges

Harshit Rana has ended his brilliant spell with two wickets for just 24 runs. He also had a wicket-maiden.

Starc drops Cummins

It was an easy catch for Mitchell Starc but he has dropped Pat Cummins. Will that make a difference?

SRH 98/8 in 16 ovs

SRK enjoys from the stands

Three days ago, Shah Rukh Khan was in the hospital with dehydration and heat stroke. But he is at the stands for his beloved KKR in Chennai.

Hyderabad 8 down

And the nightmare continues. Sunrisers Hyderabad lose Heinrich Klaasen to make it 8 wickets. Harshit Rana bowled a slower delivery and Klaasen drags it back to his stumps.

SRH 90/8 after 14.1 overs

Samad sent back

As if they were not already in trouble, now SRH has lost their Abdul Samad. It’s all on Heinrich Klaasen now, who’ll need to take matters into his own hands.

SRH are 82/7 after 13 overs

Shahbaz gone

There were no heroics from Shahbaz Ahmed with the bat. The southpaw is sent back by Varun Chakaravarthy, and Sunrisers Hyderabad are in deep trouble.

SRH are 72/6 after 12 overs

Wickets continue to tumble

SRH have lost half their side as Aiden Markram departs after Starc takes a brilliant catch.

SRH are 62/5.

Nitish Reddy bites the dust

Nitish Reddy walks back to thee pavilion as Harshit Rana strikes. SRH lose their fourth wicket.

SRH are 47/4 in 7 overs.

Powerplay done!

Kolkata have been the dominant side so far with Mitchell Starc breathing fire. Hyderabad have lost 3 crucial wickets for 40 in the powerplay.

Players to Score Golden Ducks in IPL Finals

• R Jadeja v CSK, 2008
• D Vettori v CSK
• 2011 A Tare v CSK, 2013
• Raina v MI, 2013
• Morris v MI, 2013
• Maxwell v KKR, 2014
• Sundar v MI, 2017
• Stoinis v MI, 2020
• Rana v CSK, 2021
• Shakib v CSK, 2021
• Dhoni v GT, 2023
• Head v KKR, 2024*

It’s all purple!

Hyderabad have lost their third wicket as Rahul Tripathi departs for just 9 off 13 balls. Mitchell Starc bags his second wicket as Hyderabad are 3 down for 21.

SRH 21/3 in 4.2

Head’s form slumps

Since his 89 against LSG, Travis Head has hit a slump. In his last five games, Head has scored:

89, 0, 0, 34, 0

Another!

Travis Head departs for a golden duck and it’s his second cosectutive duck against Kolkata. Vaibhav Arora bowled a beautiful delivery and there is no escape for Hyderabad.

SRH 6/2 in 2

What a delivery!

Mitchell Starc starts with fire. He cleans up Abhishek Sharma with a ripper of a delivery. The outswinging delivery bamboozles Abhishek and Hyderabad have been dealt an early blow.

SRH 2/1 in 0.5

Here we go!

Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma start for Hyderabad and Head will be hoping to end his streak of ducks.

Shreyas Iyer speaks

We would have bowled, we’ll get a fair idea about how the pitch will play. It’s a red soil and we played our last game on a similar surface. We need to stay with the present, stick to the basics and execute all our plans. Every individual is taking responsibility, this is a big game, we’ve plenty of people who’re playing in a final for the first time, nervous, but this is also a good chance. We’re going with the same team

Impact Subs

SRH: Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar

KKR: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, KS Bharat, Sherfaine Rutherford

Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI

Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI

Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan

Pat Cummins speaks

Looks like a good wicket, never good at reading wickets. But this looks fine. There was no dew the other night, doesn’t seem there will be today, but who knows. We are playing a particular style, won’t work every time but when it does, it will be damaging. Good to be back here. It is a different soil, but you are asking the wrong bloke. Shahbaz comes in for Samad.

Toss update

Pat Cummins has won the toss and opted to bat first for Hyderabad in the final.

Pitch report

Chennai will use a red soil pitch with 63m and 70m square with 77m straight. Ian Bishop reckons there will be a lot of bounce and it will be a high-scoring game with 180-190 average total.

All clear in Chennai

There is no effect of cyclone for now and the match is all set to go ahead without interruption. To make things interesting, there won’t be any effect of dew as well.

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