On Sunday, Venkatesh Iyer, Kolkata Knight Riders star all-rounder, married Shruti Raghunathan amidst their family and friends.
The couple had got engaged earlier before in November 2023.
To wish the all-rounder congratulations, messages were sent by the franchise through X.
In the last game of IPL, Venkatesh played an unbeaten knock of 52 off 26 deliveries that included four boundaries and three sixes.His strike rate was an astounding 200 which helped KKR to chase down a target of just over10 overs against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
In the same year’s competition Venkatesh scored 370 runs at a very good average of over46.25 and striking rate being above158 with four half centuries including seventy as his best score ever in this march.
KKR has been really lucky to have this guy in their squad in this playoffs. In Eliminator match with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) back in 2021, he made a contribution of twenty six runs off thirty balls towards KKR win. In addition to that Iyer scored 55 runs (four boundaries and three sixes) versus Delhi Capitals in the semifinal and Chennai Super Kings during final when they lost by twenty seven runs respectively while keeping his team at bay from emerging victorious especially after they had beaten CSK with fiftyball fifty off just thirty two balls (five fours and three sixes).
He has recorded some impressive knockout stage statistics for Iyer across five matches from which he has gathered two hundred and thirty two runs averaging77.33in addition to having scored four fiftieswith his highest being fifty five
Only Mumbai Indians Lendl Simmons managed to cross this mark while scoring more than four consecutive fifties plus scores before Raina could do it again.
His fourth successive half-century came as soon as Iyer hit one more fifty in this contest and it was a match winning knock of 52* off 26 balls in the last match of IPL 2024, thus surpassing Lendl Simmons of Mumbai Indians who had scored three half centuries previously.
