Lucknow: On Sunday, a match was played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai. This time in the title match, KKR won by 8 wickets and won the title for the third time. After becoming the champion for the third time, all the players of Kolkata were seen celebrating and in this episode, legendary all-rounder Andre Russell also had a lot of fun. Let us tell you that KKR had earlier won the trophy in the years 2012 and 2014 under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir and now this team has created history under the leadership of Shreyas Iyer.
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After winning the final, all the players were seen celebrating and Russell was also not behind. The star all-rounder was seen dancing to the song “Lut Put Gaya” with actress Ananya Pandey. The video of him celebrating like this and dancing to the Indian song is becoming very viral on social media. Not only this, other players were also seen celebrating in this video but the all-rounder was seen dancing in a different style and he was also very happy.
In fact, this was the first time since Russell joined the team that he was playing in the final. This was the first final match of his IPL career and he also won it. The 36-year-old showed his all-round performance ability on this big stage. Even though the star batsman did not get much chance to bat this season, he left no stone unturned with the ball. Russell helped Kolkata win a one-sided match with his brilliant bowling in the final match. He broke the back of Hyderabad by taking 3 wickets for 19 runs during the bowling of 2.3 overs in the summit clash.
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If we talk about the final match, in the title battle, SRH captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first but his move backfired on him as the entire team was all out for 113 runs in 18.3 overs. Chasing the target of 114 runs, Kolkata did not face much difficulty and they achieved it in 10.3 overs at the loss of 2 wickets. For them, star batsman Venkatesh Iyer played a brilliant half-century innings and scored an unbeaten 52 runs off 26 balls. During this, 4 fours and 3 sixes came off his bat. With this, KKR won the trophy for the third time.
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