Mitchell Starc was Gambill’s biggest gamble this year at 24 Crore and it has paid off in spades when Aussie dollar crashed. The lowest score in an IPL final is held by Sunriser Hotel Hyderabad. At one point, they were bowled out for 113 in 19 overs which was 12 runs less than what CSK tallied in the Eden Gardens final against Mumbai Indians back in 2013
As Shah Rukh’s stars began shining at Chepauk, the Kolkata Knight Riders(KKR) batsmen partied on the field winning by eight wickets within ten points three overs”King Khan”and thereby clinching his third IPL trophy. Venkatesh Iyer (52 not out off 26 balls) ensured KKR recorded their most lop-sided final win of its seventeen-year history.
But before that there was gloomy weather throughout Bengal when cyclone Remar struck India’s east coast including Chennai.
There was a light breeze at Chepauk that favored swing bowling. In such conditions as these Stark could become unplayable as a bowler like him finds himself being faced with.
In SRH’s opening game southpaw Abhishek Sharma encountered this class and he found himself beaten by beautiful offies keeping low outside leg stump from one such delivery. On top of his Saurashtra triumph Head knew he had to be ready to take his chances against Starc.
Vaibhav Arora was ready for this and he also got the ball to move a little and force Hyde into an edge off the bat. The moment the dynamic opening duo were dismissed for no apparent reason, SRH suddenly felt helpless. Another in-form player, Rahul Tripathy, was dismissed by Starc in the powerplay.
For SRH to make a comeback Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen though will need to stand up but again it is Harshit Rana (wily) who exemplifies KKR’s attack depth through its medium pacer. Sunil Narine And Russell takes charge.
Harshit used some variations once in a while – there was one of those slow balls at Klasse – which can be expected from his style of play. If that wasn’t enough, old pro Andre Russell (3-19) was just as good as well.
