KKR vs SRH, IPL 2024, Qualifier 1 in Photos: All-Round Excellence Leads KKR to 8-Wicket Win Over SRH to Seal IPL Final Berth

KKR's Mitchell Starc got his side off to a stellar start, dismissing dangerman Travis Head for a mere duck with just the second ball of the innings (Sportzpics)

Abhishek Sharma would follow his opening partner soon in the succedding over, as Vaibhav Arora scalped the youngster to push SRH to 13-2 (Sportzpics)

The responsibility would then fall on Rahul Tripathi's shoulders to bring SRH back to life, as the batter weathered the KKR bowling storm (Sportzpics)

But, wickets would keep falling on the other end, as Starc wreaked havoc in his third over, scalping Nitish and Shahbaz in consecutive balls to push SRH further down the hole they were in (Sportzpics)

Finally, Tripathi would find support in Heinrich Klaasen, with whom he's end up establishing a fifty-run stand as SRH regained control (Sportzpics)

All hell would break loose again as Klaasen would depart soon and Tripathi was the victim of an unfortunate mix-up that led to his run-out, as SRH's hopes for a big total flat-lined (Sportzpics)

But, a quickfire cameo from skipper Pat Cummins would ensure that SRH atleast cross the 150 mark, and put up a subpar target of just 160 runs for the table-toppers KKR (Sportzpics)

The misfortune would only continue for SRH as openers Gurbaz and Narine got KKR off to a blazing start, putting up 44 runs in the first three overs itself (Sportzpics)

SRH would find some respite and hope, as Natarajan and Cummins would remove both openers and find a breakthrough for once (Sportzpics)

But, all hope would diminish as batters Venkatesh Iyer and Shreyas Iyer would go on to rain hell and runs down on the SRH bowlers (Sportzpics)

Venkatesh would take the initial initiative and clobber the KKR bowlers enroute to his fiery fifty (Sportzpics)

Skipper Shreyas Iyer would join in on the scoring fun and put up a stellar knock of his own whilst supporting his strike partner from the other end (Sportzpics)

Shreyas would call it time on SRH and clobber Travis Head for three sixes and a four in the 14th over and chase the target of 160 with 38 balls left to play (Sportzpics)

With their dominant 8-wicket win over SRH, KKR sealed their spot in the IPL 2024 Final, set to happen in Chennai on May 26 (Sportzpics)