Sunil Narine PLAYFULLY Lifts Gautam Gambhir During Celebration After KKR Beat SRH in IPL 2024 Final | WATCH VIDEO
Chennai: It was a night to remember for the Kolkata Knight Riders as they clinched their third IPL title with a win over Sunrisers Hyderabad by eight wickets on Sunday in Chennai. Following the win, the KKR players could not keep a lid over their emotions as they celebrated with each other. But it was Sunil Narine lifting Gautam Gambhir playfully that stole the show after the historic night for KKR.
Gambhir, who is known to be a serious character, could not hold back his smile and laughter. After Narine lifted Gambhir, the former India opener returned the favour and then the two hugged to give fan’s a priceless moment.
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Andre Russell picked up three wickets with the ball, while Mitchell Starc set the tone in the first over with the wicket of Abhishek Sharma. The Hyderabad franchise were bundled out for 113.
Chasing 114, KKR lost Sunil Narine cheaply when he went too early in his flick off Pat Cummins and thick leading edge was caught by deep mid-wicket, after hitting a pulled six. Venkatesh launched a counter-attack by dancing down the pitch to smack Bhuvneshwar Kumar for two successive sixes, after glancing him for a four to take 20 runs off the third over.
From the other end, Rahmanullah Gurbaz brought out his cut and loft to take two fours, followed by outside edges giving him two more boundaries. Venkatesh cut and pulled fiercely off T Natrajan for consecutive fours, before flicking and swiping handsomely to take six and four respectively off the left-arm pacer, as KKR reached 72/1 at the end of power-play, also the highest total in a six-over phase of the IPL finals.
Gurbaz took over by sweeping Shahbaz Ahmed for six and lofting the left-arm spinner for another maximum, happening on the either side of pulling Jaydev Unadkat for four. But Shahbaz had the last laugh by trapping a sweeping Gurbaz lbw.
Shreyas Iyer opened his account by reverse-sweeping Shahbaz for four, followed by Venkatesh getting his fifty in 24 balls and he fittingly finished off the chase with a single to clinch third IPL title for KKR. It also the first time Shreyas becomes an IPL winning captain on his second attempt, after being excluded from the Test team and BCCI central contracts earlier this year.
Brief Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 113 in 18.3 overs (Pat Cummins 24, Aiden Markram 20; Andre Russell 3-19, Mitchell Starc 2-14) lost to Kolkata Knight Riders 114/2 in 10.3 overs (Venkatesh Iyer 52 not out, Rahmanullah Gurbaz 39; Pat Cummins 1-18, Shahbaz Ahmed 1-22) by eight wickets.
(With IANS inputs)