Chennai: IPL has reached its final day, Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad will face each other in the IPL 2024 final to lift the title. Both the teams have displayed a new brand of cricket which inspired every IPL team to adopt the same template. SRH and KKR revolutionised the way to maximise the powerplay.
Kolkata Knight Riders will enter the battle as the two-time champions of the league in their fourth final. On the other hand Sunrisers Hyderabad will look to win their second title in the biggest T20 league after having won back in 2016 and finished runner-up in IPL 2018.
Table toppers KKR had a direct entry to the final after beating SRH in Qualifier 1. on the other side, SRH had to contest in Qualifier 2 as they defeated RR to stage another clash against KKR in the final.
KKR Likely XI (batting first)
Rahmanullah Gurbaaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Nitish Rana, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana
KKR likely XI (bowling first)
Rahmanullah Gurbaaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy
KKR Impact Players
Varun Chakravarthy, Nitish Rana, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, KS Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford
SRH Likely XI (batting first)
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klassen (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Jaydev Unadkat, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
SRH Likely XI (bowling first)
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klassen (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Jaydev Unadkat, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan
SRH Impact Players
T. Natarajan, Aiden Markram, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik
Pitch Report
The MA Chidambaram Stadium will host its third final in the history of IPL as well as its ninth match of this season. The Chennai-based venue is considered a difficult surface to bat on and provides help to spinners and slow bowlers. The ground has typically favoured teams batting second this season but the second qualifier played between RR and SRH saw the latter winning the match where they batted first.
Overall, the venue has hosted 84 matches where 49 matches have been won by teams batting first and 35 matches have gone down in favour of teams batting second.
Weather Forecast
After over two months of intense rivalries and competitions, we are down to the summit clash in which Kolkata Knight Riders take on Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 26 at the Chepauk in Chennai in the IPL 2024 final. While it is expected to be a cracker, the weather could play up like it did on Saturday evening. The Knight Riders had to stop their training due to rain.
Although there isn’t a rain forecast on the match day, in case if it does rain, the IPL 2024 final will continued on the reserve day (May 27).
