KKR vs SRH, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1 Highlights: Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer Run Riot as KKR Clinch 8-Wicket Win over SRH to Seal IPL Final Spot

When it rains, it pours. Well, it sure did rain runs down on the SRH ranks, as the KKR batters dismantled the Sunrisers with precision and ease.

KKR got off to a strong start with the likes of Gurbaz and Narine going aggressive from the get-go. But, after an expensive powerplay, they removed both batters to find some hope to extend the game and their chances against the Knight Riders.

But, Venkatesh Iyer and Shreyas Iyer would have something different to say about the same, as both batters put up a blistering stand, reaching their fifties respectively in style, as they soared through the SRH bowling ranks.

The exclamation mark was delivered by Shreyas, who finished off the game in dominant fashion, punishing Travis Head for 22 runs off the last four balls to seal the deal with 8 wickets and a little more than 6 overs to spare. With their dominant display, KKR have sealed their spot in the IPL 2024 Final.

KKR Win By 8 Wickets

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 158/2 in 13.3 overs

6,4,6,6!

Shreyas Iyer sees the finish line and goes on the offensive, as he wallops Travis Head for 22 runs off fours balls to get to his fifty, and wrap up the game in dominant fashion! KKR Win!

KKR Win By 8 Wickets

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 142/2 in 13 overs

A marvelous pull off Nitish travels all the way over the boundary for a sensational six as Venkatesh Iyer brings up his fifty!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 131/2 in 12.2 overs

Nitish Reddy is next up to be punished by the KKR batters, as Shreyas Iyer plays a patient upper cut, towards square leg for an easy four!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 128/2 in 11.4 overs

Shreyas Iyer now takes his chances with a sweep off Head, that runs down third man for four more!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 123/2 in 11.2 overs

There is no stopping Venkatesh Iyer right now as he skilfully cuts one down covers for a four off Travis Head.

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 119/2 in 11 overs

Shreyas Iyer finds his groove now, as he plays a bouncer off Natarajan for a cheeky upper cut, that finds the edge and runs off to third man!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 113/2 in 10.2 overs

You drop a catch, you get punished. The same transpired for Natarajan, who gets clobbered by Shreyas Iyer for a smoking six over covers!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 107/2 in 10 overs

An unfortunate dropped catch from Klaasen sums up SRH’s day today, as Viyaskanth’s silent over goes to waste in the last ball as Venkatesh Iyer clobbers it over mid-wicket for a six!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 95/2 in 8.5 overs

Skipper Shreyas Iyer joins in on the scoring fun now, and plays a sweetly timed cut down backward point to score four.

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 90/2 in 8.2 overs

Cummins goes way wide outside the leg stump. but Venkatesh walks down accordingly and pulls one away with conviction to find the boundary!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 85/2 in 8 overs

Viyaskanth goes expensive in his first over, giving away 11 runs.

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 81/2 in 7.2 overs

Viyaskanth is next up to take the ball, and Venkatesh welcomes him rudely with an absolute belter of a slog hit, as the ball goes way back into the stands over the onside for a six!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 74/2 in 6.5 overs

Venkatesh Iyer keeps the attack going without missing a step as he cones down and wallops Cummins over mid-off for a smoking six!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 67/2 in 6.2 overs

Cummins finally finds the breakthrough as he bowls one tempting Narine to pull it away down the leg side straight into the hands of Viyaskanth for a catch!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 67/1 in 6.1 overs

Cummins’ stroke of bad luck continues, as he gets Narine to top-edge one right to Klaasen, who just couldn’t get his hands on the ball, and the balls runs down third man for four!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 63/1 in 6 overs

Yet another excellent over from Natarajan, peppered with four dots, ensues as the pacer gives away just 6 runs in his over.

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 62/1 in 5.5 overs

A wondrous start to an over, but Narine punished Natarajan soon enough with a clobbering pull down the onside for a four!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 57/1 in 5 overs

Bhuvi recovers elegantly after the boundaries to end the over with three dots, and concedes 8 runs altogether in the over.

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 57/1 in 4.3 overs

Venkatesh goes for the safe flick down fine-leg once again, this time off Bhuvi, and finds four!

He then follows it up with a confident stroke over mid-off that gets four more!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 49/1 in 4 overs

Natarajan provides SRH a semblance of control finally as the TN pacer ends his over well, conceding 5 runs and scalping a wicket

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 48/1 in 3.3 overs

Venkatesh Iyer is the next man in for KKR and he sets the tone as he plays one sheepishly down fine-leg with a flick to score four!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 44/1 in 3.2 overs

Natarajan comes in to bowl next and he strikes instantly on his second ball, as he gets Gurbaz to wallop one down covers right into the hands of Viyaskanth!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 41/0 in 2.4 overs

Gurbaz is in total control as he steps down the pitch and attacks Bhuvi head-on to clobber one straight down for a whopping six!

The Afghan follows it up with another thundering smack over mid-on that also runs down to the boundary for four!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 30/0 in 2.1 overs 

Bhuvneshwar Kumar goes fuller to catch Narine on an LBW this time, and the ball rolls onto the pads of the Windian and goes down third-man for four more! SRH take the other review and lose it again!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 25/0 in 1.5 overs 

The misery piles on to Cummins, as Gurbaz comes down the track and swings wildly to catch a thick edge of the bat as the ball soars all the way down third man for six!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 19/0 in 1.4 overs 

The misfortune continues for Cummins, who tries to catch Gurbaz on an LBW, but the ball trickles down third-man for four. SRH take the review and lose it!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 14/0 in 1.2 overs 

Narine takes no time to attack in classic fashion as he bludgeons one down mid-off for a smacking four off Cummins!

He then follows it up with another flick down mid-on next to find four more!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 6/0 in 1 overs 

Bhuvi recovers well after conceding the initial boundary and ends the over on a good note, after giving away just 2 more runs.

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 4/0 in 0.2 overs 

Veteran Bhuvneshwar Kumar starts off with the new ball, and after a good first ball, gets pummelled by Gurbaz down covers for a beautiful drive that gets four!

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: KKR 0/0 in 0 overs 

Openers Sunil Narine and Gurbaz make their way out to the crease as KKR set their sights on reaching the needed target of 160 and secure their spot in the IPL 2024 Final.

SRH can be grateful to their skipper for the late flurry of runs along with the fifty by Rahul Tripathi to get them to a decent score on the board. KKR will be fancying themselves to chase this down with ease and make it to their third final with their deep batting unit.

KKR Need 160 Runs to Make it to the Finals

SRH 159/10 in 19.3 Overs – WICKET! 

The partnership finally comes to an end with Cummins hitting the ball in the air once again but this time he does not get so lucky and the keeper gets the catch to end the innings.

Pat Cummins 30(24) c. R Gurbaz b. A Russell

SRH 156/9 in 18.6 Overs – SIX! FOUR! 

Some valuable runs scored by the SRH skipper here. Goes after the back-of-the-length delivery and looks to heave it away but gets the top edge and flies well behind the keeper for the maximum.

Followed it up with the boundary which was struck towards the gap at backward-point for the boundary to close out the over.

SRH 139/9 in 17.1 Overs – SIX! 

Cummins goes after Chakravarthy right away and goes for the switch-hit and slams it towards the third man for the maximum to start off the over on a positive. Need to go past the 150-mark if they are to have a chance.

SRH 132/9 in 16.5 Overs – FOUR! 

Some crucial runs for the Sunrisers as Cummins goes after the pacer here and the length delivery that was too wide is cut away towards the deep backward point for the boundary.

SRH 126/9 in 15.6 Overs – WICKET

Varun Chakravarthy has his second wicket of the evening. Gets the delivery to drift into the right-hander considerably and the turn also assists in the ball crashing onto the pads. Looks out by a mile but Bhuvneshwar Kumar goes for the DRS after the umpire raises the finger. But no change in the decision thanks to the umpire’s call.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar 0(4) lbw V Chakravarthy

SRH 125/8 in 14.4 Overs – WICKET!

Samad blindly goes after Harshit Rana and the bowler deceives him with the slower one and the batter looks to go big over the cover boundary but finds the KKR skipper who takes the regulation catch with ease.

Abdul Samad 16(12) c. S Iyer b. H Rana

SRH 121/7 in 13.3 Overs – WICKET!

The impact sub Sanvir Singh goes without making an impact as Sunil Narine bamboozles the uncapped player to break the stumps and hand KKR the seventh wicket of the innings. Came into the right-hander which the batter was clearly unable to read there.

Sanvir Singh 0(1) b. S Narine 

SRH 121/6 in 13.2 Overs – WICKET!

Samad absolutely throws his partner out to dry. Went for the single after clipping it towards the backward point region, but some brilliant fielding by Andre Russell who threw it back to the keeper’s end put an end to Tripathi’s innings who is devasted.

Rahul Tripathi 55(35) run out Andre Russell