KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Final: SRH 72/6 (12); Markram, Shahbaz fall in quick succession

Russell continues. Three runs off the first two deliveries including a double. 

Varun Chakravarthy is in to bowl his first over of the night, replaces Narine. Superb over so far, just one run off the first four balls. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST! Shahbaz tried to sweep but the ball straightened just a bit as it takes an edge and Narine makes no mistake in completing the catch! Abdul Samad comes in next as the impact sub, replaces Head. Two runs and a wicket in the over 

Shahbaz Ahmed c Narine b Varun 8 (7b 0x4 1x6) SR: 114.28

Andre Russell replaces Harshit. AND HE STRIKES IN HIS SECOND DELIVERY! Markram tried to go big but doesn’t get the desired elevation as he hits it straight to Starc at long on! Shahbaz Ahmed is the next batter in. Short from Russell, Shahbaz swings hard at it and misses. SIX! Short again but this time its directed towards Shahbaz’ body, he tries to pull it, manages to edge it over the keeper for a maximum

Markram c Starc b Russell 20 (23b 3x4 0x6) SR: 86.95

Narine to Klaasen, a single to long on. Markram slaps to deep cover; one run taken. Klaasen stays in his crease for a delivery turning in, one run to long on. Just three of the over.

Rana again. Edged and FOUR! Klaasen gets an edge but there is no slip. Seven runs from the over.

Sunil Narine for his first over. Markram drives to deep covers for one run. Heinrich Klaasen gets off the mark with a single to long on. Two singles off the final two deliveries makes it four from the over.

Harshit Rana into the attack now. FOUR! A loose delivery to start, too wide and Nitish slaps it away past point. Nitish takes a single to third man on the second delivery. A slower delivery for Markram, cuts it through covers for one. WICKET! Rana induces an edge on the final delivery, it full and Nitish misses his drive. SRH in a spot of bother here.

Nitish Kumar Reddy c Gurbaz b Harshit 13 (10)

Arora to Markram, FOUR! Whacks it over covers. FOUR again! An identical shot, width on offer and the ball hits the rope on the bounce. Danger! Markram takes a risky single to mid off, has to dive to get in. SIX! A bouncer lacking direction, Nitish hooks it over fine leg. A single to mid off to end the over.

Starc to Tripathi, beaten! Tries to chase this wide delivery, fails to connect with his slash. OUT! Starc gets Tripathi now! A leading edge off an attempted flick, Ramandeep gets under it and takes it.

Rahul Tripathi c Ramandeep b Starc 9 (13)

Nitish Kumar Reddy taps to third man to get off the mark. Markram gets a single with a drive to deep covers.

Vaibhav Arora starts his next with two wides. A single for Tripathi off the first delivery to mid off. Markram clips the third to mid wicket to get one run. Tripathi charges down the track but fails to connect. The next is wide down the leg side. A quick single with a tap on the off side for Tripathi is the final run of the over. 

Starc to Tripathi, FOUR! On the pads and the batter helps it on its way to fine leg. A single through mid wicket on the second delivery. Aiden Markram defends his first delivery. FOUR! A thick outside edge and the ball flies past the slip fielder. 

It will be Vaibhav Arora from the other end. Tripathi on strike. An outside edge on the first delivery but it does not carry to the keeper. Tripathi shuffles to rattle the bowler on the third, he looks to go over mid off, fails to connect clean, dot ball. Two leg byes for Tripathi on the fourth. Tripathi clips the fifth on the up to deep square leg for one. GONE! A golden duck for Travis Head! Vaibhav Arora, you beauty. Just tails the ball away from the left-hander from over the wicket. Head cannot help but poke at it and hand an edge.

Travis Head c Gurbaz b Vaibhav 0 (1)

Starc to Abhishek, beaten! A hint of outswing, Abhishek chases but misses. The second is past the outside edge too. Again, it is the outswing delivery. The third is a dot, slapped towards covers. CHANCE for RUNOUT! Abhishek cuts to third man and wants to come back for two. He puts in a dive but had Gurbaz hit the wickets, Abhishek was gone. BOWLED! Peach of a delivery! No chance of connecting to that. It is on the off-stump line and angling in, until it leaves the batter and clips the top of off. Jaffa! 

Abhishek Sharma b Starc 2 (5)

Rahul Tripathi picks a single off his first delivery.

Mitchell Starc takes the new ball for KKR. It is the usual pair Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head for SRH.

We will have the Indian national anthem before the start of play today. 

The last five finals have seen the winner of the first qualifier win the IPL final too. Can Sunrisers Hyderabad break that trend today?

IPL Winners (So far in Finals)

Batting 1st - 9 times 

Batting 2nd - 7 times

The red clay tends to have a lot more bounce than the black one. I think it could be a 180-190-pitch. There is not going to be a lot of spin. The cutters will play a part for seamers.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar

Kolkata Knight Riders: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, KS Bharat, Sherfaine Rutherford

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan

We would have bowled first. This is a completely different soil [than the Eliminator]. We wanted to back that. We need to stick to the [strengths, and need to execute our plans. We have been backing each other. Whenever we have been put under pressure, we have worked out well. There has been jitteriness right from the start [of the day]. This is a big game. Lots of individuals who are playing their first final. There is nervousness. Hopefully we can win this one. We are going with the same team.

Looks like a good wicket, never good at reading wickets. But this looks fine. There was no dew the other night, doesn’t seem there will be today, but who knows. We are playing a particular style, won’t work every time but when it does, it will be damaging. Good to be back here. It is a different soil, but you are asking the wrong bloke. Shahbaz comes in for Samad

Pat Cummins wins the toss and SRH elects to bat first. 

Kolkata Knight Riders 

Bat 1st: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy.

Bowl 1st: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora.

Impact Player options: Vaibhav Arora/Rinku Singh, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, KS Bharat.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Bat 1st: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aiden Markram, Nitesh Kumar Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan.

Bowl 1st: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aiden Markram, Nitesh Kumar Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T. Natarajan.

Impact Player options: Rahul Tripathi/Jaydev Unadkat, Umran Malik, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Glenn Phillips.

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS

Shreyas Iyer (c), Srikar Bharat, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ramandeep Singh, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Vaibhav Arora, Dushmantha Chameera, Harshit Rana, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sakib Hussain, Angkrish Raghuvanshi.

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD

Jaydev Unadkat, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Pat Cummins (c), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Nitish Reddy, Marco Jansen, Abhishek Sharma, Upendra Yadav, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Abdul Samad, Akash Maharaj Singh, Wanindu Hasaranga.

Although Chepauk is known for its slow and turning tracks which favour the slower bowlers, stats give a different picture. In 82 matches played at the ground, the tweakers have picked 352 wickets at an average of 27 and an economy a tad over seven. In comparison, pacers have got 562 wickets at an almost identical average but a slightly higher rate of 8.42.

Even in IPL 2024, pacers have 65 wickets in eight matches at this ground to spinners’ 22.

2016 - Beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by eight runs

2018 - Lost to Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets

Played - 2

Won - 1

Loss - 1

Last Final - Lost to Chennai Super Kings by eight runs (2018)

Highest Score - 208/7 in 20 overs vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (2016)

Lowest Score - 178/6 in 20 overs vs Chennai Super Kings (2018)

1. MS Dhoni (CSK) - 8 in 11 innings (as a wicket-keeper)

2. Ravindra Jadeja (CSK) - 6 in 8 innings

3. Suresh Raina (CSK) - 6 in 8 innings

1. Anil Kumble (RCB) - 4/16 in four overs vs Deccan Chargers (2009)

2. Dwayne Bravo (CSK) - 4/42 in four overs vs MI (2013)

3. Karanveer Singh (KXIP) - 4/54 in four overs vs KKR (2014)

4. R Ashwin (CSK) - 3/16 in four overs vs RCB (2011)

Pat Cummins has been on a trophy-winning spree as captain since June last year, and as another prospective title – the Indian Premier League (IPL) - looms, the Australian skipper admitted with a smirk that the glorious run will run its course eventually.

“The run has got to stop at some point. It has been a great couple of years. I haven’t captained in any T20 cricket before this series, so I wasn’t too sure what to expect. Obviously, the T20 game is quite fast paced. But drawing on ODI captaincy last year, it didn’t feel too foreign,” the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper said on the eve of the summit clash against Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai. 

1. Shane Watson (CSK) - 117* vs SRH (2018)

2. Wriddhiman Saha (KXIP) - 115* vs KKR (2014)

3. B Sai Sudharsan (GT) - 96 vs CSK (2023)

4. Murali Vijay (CSK) - 95 vs RCB (2011)

Which TV channel will broadcast Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 Final match?

The Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 Final match will be broadcast live on the Star Sports Network in India.

How can one watch the live streaming of Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 Final match online?

The Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 Final match will be streamed live on the JioCinema app and website.

Played: 13

Won: 6

Lost: 7

Last Result: Beat RR by 36 runs (IPL 2024, Chennai) - Qualifier 2

Played: 14

Won: 9

Lost: 5

Last Result: beat SRH by eight wickets (IPL 2024, Ahmedabad)

Played: 4

Kolkata Knight Riders: 2

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2

Last Result: KKR beat SRH by eight wickets (IPL 2024, Ahmedabad) - Qualifier 1

Played: 27

Kolkata Knight Riders: 17

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 9

Tied: 1

Last Result: KKR beat SRH by eight wickets (IPL 2024, Ahmedabad) - Qualifier 1

In 2014, the Gautam Gambhir-led KKR clinched its second trophy after beating the George Bailey-led Kings XI Punjab, in the final at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. 

SRH last won the title in 2016, when it beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the final by eight runs in a high-scoring thriller. 

Welcome to Sportstar’s Live Blog of the IPL final between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad set to happen at the Chepauk.