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Mitchell Starc Bowls 'Ball Of The Tournament' To Dismiss Abhishek Sharma In KKR vs SRH IPL 2024 Final, Video Goes Viral- WATCH

Mitchell Starc Bowls 'Ball Of The Tournament', KKR vs SRH IPl 2024 Final: The left-arm speedster bowled a beauty of a delivery to help Kolkata Knight Riders off to a dream start in the final.

Mitchell Starc Bowls 'Ball Of The Tournament', KKR vs SRH IPl 2024 Final: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) got off to a dream start in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 final against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday (May 26). While SRH captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat first, they lost their opener Abhishek Sharma in the first over itself, thanks to a beauty of a delivery from Mitchell Starc.

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Starc, whose bowl to Abhishek, was described by commentator Harsha Bhogle as "ball of the tournament", got one to angle into the left-hander before getting it to swing away, enough to beat the left-hander's shot and rattle the top of off stump. The video of Starc getting the wicket of Abhishek, the player with the highest strike rate in IPL 2024, in the first over of IPL 2024 final has gone viral on social media.

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SRH were further pushed to the backfoot when Vaibhav Arora removed Travis Head for a golden duck in the last ball of the second over of the innings. Starc then got the wicket of Rahul Tripathi to further exert their dominance early on.

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Notably, the same two teams had faced off in Qualifier 1 where again it was Starc's opening spell that had set up the tone for a Kolkata victory. SRH had to win the Qualifier 2 to set up the final with KKR. Kolkata topped the league stage of IPL 2024 while SRH finished second.

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