The first qualifier match of the Indian Premier League 2024 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders on 21 May at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Kolkata Knight Riders won this match by 8 wickets and made their place in the final of the 2024 season. Sunrisers Hyderabad players failed to show good performance against Kolkata and due to this the team had to face defeat in an important match.

Not only this, during the match, there was a very bad mix-up between Sunrisers Hyderabad wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen and Rahul Tripathi due to which the team could not get Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer out quickly and due to this they had to face defeat. Let us tell you, when Shreyas Iyer was batting on 10 runs, the Kolkata Knight Riders captain tried to play a big shot on Vijaykanth Viyaskanth’s ball but the ball hit his bat and went very high in the air.

Heinrich Klaasen raced to catch this catch. Not only this, Rahul Tripathi was also trying to catch this catch. This ball had come in the gloves of Klaasen but as soon as he collided with Rahul Tripathi, the ball went out of his hand and Shreyas Iyer got a big life. All the players of Sunrisers Hyderabad were very disappointed that they could not catch the catch of Shreyas Iyer.

Not only this, in the very next over, Travis Head also dropped the catch of Shreyas Iyer. This catch was also quite easy but Travis Head failed to catch it. Shreyas Iyer got two lives in this match. However, after this the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders did not look back and played a match-winning inning of 58* runs for his team with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes in 24 balls.

Kolkata Knight Riders made their place in the final by registering a win against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Let us tell you, before this, Rahul Tripathi had batted very well for Sunrisers Hyderabad and played an important innings of 55 runs. Due to his innings, the team scored 159 runs after losing all the wickets while batting first. In response, Kolkata easily achieved this target by losing two wickets.

Apart from Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer played an unbeaten inning of 51 runs. Not only this, Sunil Narayan contributed 21 runs. The final match of the Indian Premier League 2024 will be played on 26 May at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.