Kolkata's third IPL title after defeating Hyderabad

This time Kolkata Knight Riders won the title after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL. In response to 113 runs in the final, Kolkata lost just two wickets and won in 10.3 overs. This team won the IPL title for the third time.

Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first at the Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. However, Hyderabad did not get off to a good start in batting. Mitchell Starc dismissed Abhishek Sharma for 2 runs in the first over. In the next over, Vaibhav Arora sent Travis Head back to Sajghar for zero runs. Rahul Tripathi tried to catch the match but failed. Despite playing 13 balls, he scored 9 runs and became Starc's second victim.

Later, Aiden Markram and Nitish Kumar tried to take Hyderabad forward. However, Markram could not survive after Nitish got out after scoring 13 runs off 10 balls. He scored 20 runs off 23 balls.

Apart from this, Heinrich Klaasen got out after scoring 16 runs off 17 balls. Captain Cummins tried to fight alone at the end. He returned with 26 runs off 19 balls. In the end, Hyderabad scored 113 runs after losing all the wickets.

Andre Russell took three wickets for Kolkata. Apart from this, Mitchell Starc and Harshit Rana took two wickets each.

In response, Kolkata lost Sunil Narine in the second over. However, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Venkatesh Iyer continued to take the team forward after handling the initial shock. Gurbaz was lbw by Shahbaz in the ninth over. He returned to Sajghar after scoring 39 runs off 32 balls. Later, Venkatesh Iyer left the field with an unbeaten 52 off 26 balls to secure the win. Apart from this, Shreyas Iyer remains unbeaten with 6 runs from 3 balls.

Bangladesh /MP