In the match against the Hyderabad team, the Kolkata team lost 2 wickets at the end of 13.4 overs and advanced to the final for the 4th time by scoring 164 runs.
The 17th IPL cricket season has reached its final stage. The league round of this cricket festival where 10 teams participated ended last Sunday. Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru have qualified for the top four in the league round. In this situation, Kolkata VS Hyderabad teams conducted a series of tests in the first qualifying round held yesterday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat first. Following this, the Kolkata team bowled. Hyderabad openers Travis Head failed to get a run and Abhishek Sharma was dismissed for 3 runs. Next, Rahul Tripathi was dismissed for 55 runs and Nitish Kumar Reddy for 9 runs. In the end the team was all out for 159 in 19.3 overs losing all their wickets. On the bowling side, Mitchell Starc was amazing with 3 wickets.
Kolkata then went into bat with an easy target of 160 to win. Openers Ramanullah Gurbaz were dismissed for 23 runs and Sunil Narine for 21 runs. Venkatesh Iyer scored 51 runs and Srayers Iyer scored 58 runs to lead the team to victory. In the end, the team scored 164 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 13.4 overs and won easily by 8 wickets. With this victory, the Kolkata team advanced to the final for the 4th time. Mitchell Starr was selected as the man of the match for Kolkata.
