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Kolkata Knight Riders played a dominant brand of cricket to win their IPL title on Sunday with a comprehensive 8-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday. In the finale, KKR stamped their authority right from the first over of the game, with Mitchell Starc bamboozling Abhishek Sharma with an absolute jaffa. SRH just didn’t fail to recover from that and kept trailing behind throughout the match.
It was Venkatesh Iyer who scored the winning runs for KKR to lift their third IPL title but there were several players in their camp who were enjoying this feeling for the first time as they shared emotions in different. Star all-rounder Andre Russell, who was winning the title for the second time, was in tears seconds after KKR won the final. He played a crucial role in his team’s title triumph which was not the case in the 2014 victory where he played just two matches.
No words to describe [holds his tears]. It means so much. I am happy that all of us were very disciplined and worked towards one goal. This franchise has done a lot for me. It’s a big gift from all of us to them,” Russell told the broadcaster after the game.
Source – TOI
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