The first qualifier match of the ongoing IPL season was played yesterday on 21 May between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad (KKR vs SRH). Let us tell you that in this match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, KKR won against SRH by 8 wickets.

Team captain Shreyas Iyer played an important role in taking Kolkata to the final and in the match he remained unbeaten after scoring 58 runs in 24 balls. Iyer hit 5 fours and 4 sixes during his innings.

Also, Shreyas ended the match by hitting a six. On the other hand, after the match between Kolkata and Hyderabad ended, a video of team owner Shah Rukh Khan is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In this video, Shah Rukh is seen lovingly hugging Shreyas Iyer. Also, fans are seen reacting very fast to this video.

Watch this special video of Shahrukh Khan and Shreyas Iyer

On the other hand, if we give you information about the match, Sunrisers Hyderabad has won the toss and decided to bat first. However, the start of the team was nothing special. After the wicket of Travis Head fell on the second ball, the team lost three more wickets within the powerplay. However, Rahul Tripathi (55) and captain Pat Cummins (30) played some important innings for Hyderabad, due to which the team was successful in scoring 159 runs in 20 overs.

After this, when KKR set out to chase the target of 160 runs given by Hyderabad, it easily achieved this target by losing 2 wickets in just 13.4 overs. For KKR, opener Rahmanullag Gurbaz scored 23 runs and Sunil Narayan scored 21 runs.

Whereas Venkatesh Iyer remained unbeaten scoring 51* and Shreyas Iyer 58*. KKR will now face the winner of Qualifier 2 in the IPL final on May 26 in Chennai.