After this victory of KKR, there was a flood of memes on social media.
Kolkata Knight Riders registered a one-sided win against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first qualifier of IPL 2024. With this, Shreyas Iyer and Company have confirmed their place in the final. With the help of sharp bowling by the first bowlers, KKR restricted Hyderabad to 159 runs. After this, Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer played half-centuries and helped the team win by 8 wickets. Let us tell you that SRH still has one more chance to reach the final. They will face the winning team of the Eliminator in Qualifier 2.
SRH all out for 159 runs
Earlier, the decision to bat first after winning the toss backfired for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Mitchell Starc demolished SRH’s batting order in his opening spell. Hyderabad lost four big wickets inside the powerplay. However, after this there was a partnership of 62 runs for the fifth wicket between Rahul Tripathi and Heinrich Klaasen.
Varun Chakraborty broke this partnership. He got Klaasen caught by Rinku Singh. Klaasen scored 32 runs in 21 balls with the help of 3 fours and a six. Rahul Tripathi also unfortunately got run out after scoring a half-century. He played an inning of 55 runs in 35 balls with the help of 7 fours and one six.
The lower order batsmen could not do much and the entire team was all out after scoring 159 runs in 19.3 overs. Captain Pat Cummins scored important 30 runs in 24 balls. Mitchell Starc took three wickets for KKR, while Varun Chakraborty got 2 wickets. All other bowlers took 1-1 wicket.
Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh played half-century innings
Kolkata Knight Riders, who set out to chase the target, achieved the target by losing 2 wickets in just 13.4 overs. Venkatesh Iyer and Shreyas Iyer made an excellent partnership and wrote the story of the team’s victory. Captain Iyer played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs in 24 balls, which included 5 fours and 4 sixes. Whereas Venkatesh scored unbeaten 51 runs.
Before this, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narayan made a fast start. Both the batsmen scored runs quickly and added 44 runs for the first wicket. Before getting out, Gurbaz scored 23 runs, while Narayan scored 21 runs. T Natarajan and Pat Cummins managed to take 1-1 wicket for Hyderabad.
See here the top 10 funny memes of KKR vs SRH Qualifier 1 match
Gautam Gambhir entry in KKR dressing room š„#KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/niRLOTTFGG
ā cutter š„š„š„ (@The_Ruler_of_X) May 21, 2024
#KKRvsSRH
Gautam Gambhir owned Pat Cummins, Kolkata knight riders in final after beating SRH pic.twitter.com/29MCMWY7zVā theboysthing_ (@Theboysthing) May 21, 2024
KKR into the final š„#KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/4fKzDN4XVu
ā Desi Bhayo (@desi_bhayo88) May 21, 2024
Clean bowled š#KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/CiVjK3rN22
ā Desi Bhayo (@desi_bhayo88) May 21, 2024
#KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/f9xoa2uT1n
ā thing. (@rathor7_) May 21, 2024
#KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/6m3LCYmBI7
ā Gaganš®š³ (@1no_aalsi_) May 21, 2024
Gautam Gambhir silenced Pat Cummins š„ #KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/uFIQRvVPWT
ā Ex Bhakt (@exbhakt_) May 21, 2024
Kavya Maranš #KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/Rg7zvzutdq
ā Desi Bhayo (@desi_bhayo88) May 21, 2024
Hey Pat Cummins saab.#KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/nPRQO2MRXB
ā Prayag (@theprayagtiwari) May 21, 2024
Gautam Gambhir š¤š» #KKRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/XjaenIvXga
ā Byomkesh (@byomkesbakshy) May 21, 2024