Cricketwallah gives his take on the letdown that was the final between KolkataKnightRiders and #SRH and also picks his team of the tournament, which includes Pat Cummins as captain, #MitchellStarc , Jasprit Bumrah, Virat Kohli and #SunilNarine

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Two good friends, Amit Varma and Arati Kumar-Rao , in extended conversation. Makes my day, this 👇👇

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Don Bradman packing in his hotel room when he returned to England in 1953 to cover the Ashes exclusively for the The News in Adelaide (syndicated to the Daily Mail). At the time Bradman's fee was the highest sum ever paid to an Australian for writing for a newspaper

Sunil Narine, MVP for good reason. Pity he won’t be seen in the T20 WC

Poor final but fantastic win for #KKR who’ve been marvellous right through with bat, ball , in intent, ambition & commitment. Kudos to Shreyas Iyer, whi lef with gr8 skill and astuteness. And Gautam Gambhir, too. He smiled sparingly, but created a winning culture in a short time

My choice would be Starc 👇🏼Great delivery to dismiss Abhishek in 1st over from which SRH never recovered

MoM in this one-sided final narrows down to three KKR pace bowlers for me: #MitchStarc , #HarshitRana and AndreRuzsell whi cleaned up the SRH batting for ver little. Who would you pick?

Barring Starc dropping a sitter, immaculate performance by KKR immaculate from first over to last. Bot to forget, it was Starc’s two-wicket burst in powerplay which put SRH in a crisis from which they never recovered. Would be almost a miracle for SRH to defend such paltry score

Harshit Rana began the season defending 7 off 5 against #SRH .

He finishes the season with figures of 4-1-24-2 (13 dots) against SRH 🔥🔥

#KKRvsSRH #IPL2024Final

Klaasen falls too. Score still bot past 109. SRH kaput methinks

Baffling why Washington Sundar can’t find a place in SRH team. Capable batsman, bowler, fielder

Biggest task for SRH now is to bat out 20 overs

Thank you everyone for the good wishes! I’m really overwhelmed! I prefer to stay away from social media. But I noticed some fake accounts on my name so thought it best to start my account. This is me!

Batting in the Powerplay had been SRH’s string suit in the tournament, but Abhishek and Head have been dismissed cheaply in the last few games. Have KKR sealed the issue already by getting their wickets? Need some solid rebuilding to get out of the crisis

Battle of the two most expensive buys in the IPL Auction 🇦🇺💰

#IPL2024 #KKRvSRH

“Wo jo khwaab thhe merey zehn mein
na mae keh saka, na mar likh saka,
Ki zubaan mili to kati hui
Jo qalam mila to bika hua.”

~Iqbal Ashar

Which of these you see as the crucial contest-within-contest in tonite’s #IPLFINAL

'The notion that you become €˜'anti-national'€™ by criticising the establishment and expecting improvements is mystifying. Why is it perceived in certain quarters that if you love your country, you cannot question it?'

~ FTII students, 2015 letter

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Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra clarified that he is not injured but has pulled out of the Ostrava Golden Spike meet on May 28 as a precautionary measure after he felt 'something' on his adductor muscles during a recent training session.
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