God's Plan Baby! SRK and Rinku Singh Share Warm Hug As KKR Thrash SRH to Win 3rd IPL Title

Shah Rukh Khan hugged Rinku Singh after Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in a completely one-sided final by eight wicket to clinch their third trophy in the Indian Premier League (IPL) title at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday.

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“God’s Plan Baby,” SRK told Rinku.

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After winning the title, Rinku had said: “Outstanding feeling right now. Dream has come true – I have been here for 7 years and we are so happy. Credit to GG sir. I will finally lift the IPL trophy. It was God’s plan.”

Mitchell Starc (2/14), Andre Russell (3/19) and Harshit Rana (2/24) were the most successful bowlers for the Knight Riders, as SRH simply failed to turn up for the big game. KKR produced a clinical effort with the ball to dismiss SRH for 113, the lowest-ever total in an IPL title clash.

Opting to bat first, SRH were off to a disastrous start as they lost their top guns Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head with just six runs on the board, with the latter getting dismissed for a first-ball duck to a beautiful outswinger.

Before that, Abhishek was bowled by Mitchell Starc on the fifth ball of the first over, a peach of a delivery opening up the left-hander before hitting the top of the off stump.

SRH were in all sorts of trouble as Starc accounted for the wicket of Rahul Tripathi to leave them reeling at 21/3 in the fifth over, the swing doing the trick for KKR bowlers early on.

First-change bowler Harshit Rana continued the good work and got rid of Nitish Reddy (13). Andre Russell dismissed Aiden Markram in his first over as SRH slipped to 62/5 in the 11th over.

SRH could not recover from there.

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KKR chased down the target of 114 with as many as 57 balls to spare. Venkatesh Iyer remained not out on 52 off 26 balls.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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