File photo by Suhana Khan.© Instagram
Suhana Khan, daughter of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner Shah Rukh Khan, was on cloud nine after the team won the game against Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Wankhede Stadium on Friday. Suhana went on to support KKR in the absence of her father and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was banned in 2012 by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) from entering the venue. Although his five-year ban was lifted by the MCA in 2015, Shah Rukh Khan was nowhere to be found on Friday.
Nevertheless, KKR registered a memorable victory over MI by 24 runs, ending a 12-year wait for victory over the hosts at the Wankhede Stadium.
On Instagram, an elated Suhana posted a story after KKR’s win. She shared some hearts with Wankhede’s big screen display, “KKR wins by 24 runs.”
His post went viral on social media.
Coming back to the match, Venkatesh Iyer’s brilliant half-century fight overcame a similar effort from Suryakumar Yadav, with Mitchell Star’s four-fer helping KKR beat MI by 24 runs.
In a match dominated by the bowlers, Iyer rescued KKR from a precarious 57/5 by scoring a valiant 52-ball 70 to help them reach a humble 169. KKR’s spin twins Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy then claimed identical tosses of 4- 22 in their four overs each to reduce Mumbai Indians to 61/4.
MI soon fell to 71/6 before Suryakumar Yadav bowled a valiant rescue attempt, taking them to 120 in the company of Tim David before Andre Russell (2-30) and Mitchell Starc shared five wickets between them to end the comeback of Mumbai Indians.
Starc took three wickets in the 19th over, two of them off successive deliveries, as MI were bowled out for 145.
KKR have consolidated their second position in the IPL 2024 points table while MI are all but eliminated after suffering their eighth defeat in 11 matches.
(With IANS inputs)
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