IPL 2024 Playoff: SunRisers Hyderabad demolish Rajasthan Royals to book showdown clash with Kolkata
IPL 2024 Playoff: SunRisers Hyderabad demolish beat Rajasthan Royals to book showdown clash with Kolkata
SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) will face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) final on Sunday (May 26) after beating Rajasthan Royal (RR) in Qualifier 2 on Friday. In a low-scoring affair at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, SRH beat RR by 36 runs and will now look to end their eight-year drought to win an IPL trophy. On the flip side, RR’s journeycomes to an endafter finishing third in the standings, and will have to wait another season to land their first IPL title since 2008.
SRH beat RR in Qualifier 2
Despite being renowned for its high-scoring season, the evening saw SRH defend 175 runs as they restricted RR to 139/7 in their 20 overs. Having asked SRH to bat first after winning the toss, Sanju Samson and Co restricted SRH to 175/9withTrent Boult (45/3) and Avesh Khan (27/3) making the difference with the ball. Travis Head was silent on the evening compared to his other batting displays in the tournamentashe scored 34 off 18.
However,it wasHenrichKlassen’s50-run knockthatpropelled SRH beyond150while Rahul Tripathi (37) and Shahbaz Khan (18) also played handy knocks late in the innings.
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RR collapse with the bat
After JosButtler’sdeparture, RR experienced another batting collapseas they went from65/1 to 92/6 in no time.Shahbaz Ahmedwiththreewicketswas the chiefarchitectwhile Abhishek Sharma bagged a brace.BothPat Cummins and T Natarajan scalped one wicket each to break the backbone ofRR’smiddle order.
DhruvJurel'sunbeaten 56 and YashasviJaiswal's42 off 21 were the only standout innings from the batting unit before the teams suffered a knockout blow in Qualifier 2.
The win for SRH will now see them face KKR inSunday’sfinal at the same venue inChennai’sMA Chidambaram Stadium.ThisisSRH’sthird finalhavingpreviously played in the 2016 and 2018 showdowns, winning the first one. KKRonthe otherhandwill stage their fourth final, having won twice in 2012 and 2014 and lost in the 2021 showpiece against Chennai Super Kings.
