In Qualifier 1 of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets. With this win, Kolkata qualified for the final to be held on 26 May. At the same time, Hyderabad has another chance to reach the final. The team that wins the eliminator between RCB and Rajasthan on May 22 will face Hyderabad in Qualifier 2 to be held on May 24. The team that wins this match will play against Kolkata in the final.

Batting first, the entire Hyderabad team collapsed on the score of 159 in 19.3 overs. For Hyderabad, the maximum score of 55 (35) came from the bat of Rahul Tripathi. In this innings he hit 7 fours and one six. Heinrich Klaasen played an innings of 32(21) runs. Klaasen hit 3 fours and a six in his innings. Rahul and Klaasen made a partnership of 62 (37) runs for the 5th wicket.

Captain Pat Cummins played an important inning of 30(24) runs. In this innings he hit 2 fours and 2 sixes in the ball. Cummins made an important partnership of 33 (21) runs with Vijaykant Vyaskant for the 10th wicket. Vyaskanth scored 7(5)* runs in this partnership. Abdul Samad scored 16 runs with the help of sixes in 12 balls. Mitchell Starc took maximum 3 wickets for Kolkata. Varun Chakraborty was successful in taking 2 wickets. Harshit Rana, Andre Russell, Sunil Narayan and Vaibhav Arora took one wicket each.

Kolkata chased the target and won the match by losing 2 wickets and scoring 163 runs in 13.4 overs. Captain Shreyas Iyer scored the most runs for Kolkata. He played an unbeaten half-century of 58 runs with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes in 24 balls. Venkatesh Iyer played an unbeaten half-century of 51 runs with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes in 28 balls.

Venkatesh and Shreyas added 97* (44) runs for the third wicket. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 23 runs in 14 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Sunil Narayan scored 21 runs in 16 balls with the help of 4 fours. Gurbaz and Narayan added 44 (20) runs for the first wicket. Pat Cummins and T Natarajan got one wicket each from Hyderabad.