IPL 2024: SRH Qualifies for the Finals; Know how to watch the Final clash

IPL 2024: The Qualifier Round 2 was won with 36 runs by Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday at Chennai, defeating Rajasthan Royals. SRH has begged for their place in the finals of the Indian Premier League.

Sent into bat after losing the toss, SRH made 175/9 in 20 overs after a clinical bowling performance. However, in the absence of dew, the chase got stiffening for the Royals as spinners Abhishek Sharma and Shahbaz Ahmad ran through the top order with five wickets.

SRH Owner’s reaction

Celebrations in the @SunRisers camp 🔥👏#TATAIPLPlayoffs #IPLonJioCinema #SRHvRR #TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/GAJpI7nngY
— JioCinema (@JioCinema) May 24, 2024

Kavya Maran, the franchise’s CEO and co-owner, was out of her seat clapping and cheering through Rajasthan Royals’ collapse around Dhruv Jurel on Friday at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai during the Qualifier 2 tie of the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL). Eventually, with 42 needed from the final over from the Royals, Kavya was elated as she ran up the stairs and hugged her father before celebrating with other members present in the SRH stand.

IPL: SRH Vs RR highlights

Chasing 176 runs, Rajasthan Royals failed to reach the target as they kept losing wickets and lost the match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday. RR could only manage to score only 139 runs after losing 7 wickets.

Although it was not a very huge target, the Royals could manage to score only 139 and apart from Dhruv Jurel’s unbeaten 56 and Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 42 runs, no other batter could score more than 10 runs.

For SRH, Shahbaz Ahmed picked 3 wickets, Abhishek Sharma took 2, while Pat Cummins and T Natarajan clinched one wicket each.

Batting first, Sunrisers scored 175 after losing 9 wickets runs in 20 overs. For SRH, Heinrich Khaasen scored a half-century, while Travis Head hit 34 runs. Rahul Tripathi scored 37 important runs.

For the Royals, both Trent Boult and Avesh Khan picked three wickets each, while Sandeep Sharma took two wickets.

SRH into the Finals

IPL 2024 finals between srh and kkr — IPL 2024 finals between SRH and KKR

Sunrisers Hyderabad had a somewhat inconsistent start to the IPL 2024, but the Pat Cummins-led franchise managed to stage a comeback in the tournament by winning 6 of their last 7 matches to end the season with 17 points and a net run rate of +0.414.

SRH had suffered a crushing 8-wicket defeat at the hands of Kolkata Knight Riders in the 1st Qualifier and now both the teams are ready to play the finals and become the champion of the Premier League.

Who will win the Purple Cap of the season?

Rajasthan Royals fast bowler Avesh Khan, who picked up three wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024 Qualifier 2 tie in Chennai, moved to the fourth spot in the Purple Cap table with a tally of 19 wickets in 13 matches. Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, meanwhile, ended his campaign in the seventh spot in the table with 18 scalps in 15 games after going wicketless against Sunrisers.

SRH captain Pat Cummins, on the other hand, moved into the top 10 with a solitary wicket in the match as he took his tally to 17 wickets in 15 matches. It is now the joint second-best figure by an IPL captain in a season alongside former RCB captain Anil Kumble (2010). Late great Shane Warner remains the leader with 19 wickets for RR in the 2008 season.

Punjab Kings bowler Harshal Patel remains the leader in the Purple Cap table with 24 wickets in 14 games and could end up with the award unless Kolkata Knight Riders spinner Varun Chakaravarthy, placed third with 20 wickets, picks up a five-wicket haul in the final on Sunday in Chennai.