Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler Harshit Rana gave Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman Mayank Agarwal a cruel send-off after he dismissed him during the IPL 2024 match in Kolkata on Saturday . Mayank looked in good touch but on the third ball of the sixth over, he tried to pull a bouncer from Rana and ended up giving it to the fielder at deep backward leg. Rana was overjoyed after taking his first wicket of the tournament and celebrated by blowing a kiss to the batsman. Legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar was not impressed as he expressed his views on the matter in his comments.

“He shouldn’t have done that. Did the batsmen do something to him when he hit a six? Cricket can be played without these antics. This is the age of television. I understand that. With you “We celebrated with our teammates but there was no need for such antics from the opposition,” he said in his comments.

Harshit Rana’s tenacity in the final and Andre Russel’s fifty-plus muscle helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat Heinrich Kra Heinrich Klaasen survived a six-wicket spree to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by four runs in IPL 2024.

Klassen almost turned the tide of the match on his head with a 29-ball 63 in which he hit eight sixes without a single four.

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But SRH bravely chased KKR’s impressive 208/7, built around Russell (64, 25b) and Phil Salt’s 54 (40b), but could only manage with 7 The score was 204.

South Africans sent IPL’s most expensive buyer Mitchell Starc to the cleaners with three sixes while Bangladesh cricketer Shahbaz Ahmed Another six runs ended the Australian left-arm quick innings.

The 26-point lead meant that Stark, who joined the Cavaliers for a record Rs 247.5 crore, finished with a 4-0-53-0 record.

Needing 13 runs in the final over, KKR took a gamble with rookie pacer Rana as he was hit for seven off the first two balls.

But he first dismissed Shahbaz and then Klassen’s penultimate delivery, which was caught by Suyash Sharma with a brilliant backward dive to give the local side the lead. Came a wonderful victory.

Hyderabad needed five runs off the last ball but skipper Pat Cummins failed to connect and Rana finished with a fine finish (3/33).

(with PTI input)