IPL 2024: KKR Win Third Title by 8 Wickets as SRH Score 113 — Lowest Total in an IPL Final

Kolkata Knight Riders won their third Indian Premier League title on 26 May 2024 at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets with 57 balls remaining. SRH were bowled out for 113 — the lowest total in any IPL final — and KKR chased it at 114/2, with Venkatesh Iyer scoring 52 off 26 balls. Mitchell Starc took 2/14 as Player of the Match. Sunil Narine won Player of the Season with 488 runs and 17 wickets. Virat Kohli (RCB) won the Orange Cap with 741 runs; Harshal Patel (PBKS) took the Purple Cap with 24 wickets.

SRH 113 All Out: The Lowest Total in Any IPL Final

Sunrisers Hyderabad's total of 113 all out in the IPL 2024 final was the lowest score posted by any team in an IPL final — a collapse that began early and was never arrested, producing one of the most one-sided championship matches in the competition's seventeen-season history. SRH had been one of IPL 2024's most explosive batting teams across the regular season and knockout stages — averaging some of the highest scores per match — but the Chepauk pitch in Chennai, combined with KKR's disciplined pace attack led by Mitchell Starc's 2/14, compressed the SRH batting lineup into a total that made the chase almost routine. KKR's 8-wicket victory with 57 balls to spare confirmed that the final's result had been decided effectively in the first innings.

Sunil Narine: 488 Runs + 17 Wickets — Player of the Season at Age 35

Sunil Narine's IPL 2024 Player of the Season award — 488 runs across the competition plus 17 wickets — was the culmination of one of the most remarkable individual campaigns in IPL history from a player in the middle-to-later phase of his franchise career. Narine, Trinidad and Tobago's right-arm mystery spinner, had reinvented himself across the preceding seasons as a genuine batting force at the top of KKR's order — transforming from a lower-order big-hitter into a destructive opener who combined power hitting with calculated risk management. His combination of 488 runs (as an opening batter) and 17 wickets (as a spinner in the middle overs) across 15 matches made him the IPL 2024's most valuable all-round contributor, his dual impact earning KKR the championship and him the tournament's highest individual recognition.

IPL 2024 in Context

IPL 2024 was played across March to May 2024 — the full ten-team competition, in its seventeenth edition, producing the most financially and commercially significant franchise cricket season in history. The season's six-hitting record (1,260 sixes) reflected the collective evolution of T20 batting across the global franchise system: batters entering the IPL with franchise T20 experience from multiple leagues, combined with the IPL's short boundaries and bat-friendly pitches, producing a season of unprecedented big-hitting volume. Mitchell Starc — Australian left-arm fast bowler, Australia Test captain's bowling partner — became the most expensive player ever sold at an IPL auction (₹24.75 crore) before the 2024 season; his 2/14 in the final, producing the game-changing spell that reduced SRH to 113, made his record price the best-returned investment in IPL auction history.