Watch: Cake-smeared Shahbaz Ahmed leads celebrations in SRH camp after coming into IPL ultimate | Cricket Information – Instances of India

Watch: Cake-smeared Shahbaz Ahmed leads celebrations in SRH camp after coming into IPL ultimate | Cricket Information – Instances of India

Shahbaz Ahmed and Abhishek Sharma‘s mixed effort of five-wickets led Sunrisers Hyderabad‘s (SRH) entry into the ultimate of IPL 2024 with a complete 36-run win over Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 on Friday, and the duo deservingly reduce the victory cake because the workforce returned to their lodge in Chennai.
SRH had misplaced to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Qualifier 1 and can now face the identical opponents within the title conflict on Sunday.SRH beforehand received the title in 2016 whereas KKR have lifted the trophy twice earlier than – in 2012 and 2014.

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On Friday in Qualifier 2, SRH scored 175 for 9, due to Heinrich Klassen’s 34-ball 50. In chase, Rajasthan may solely attain 139 for 7 as the 2 left-arm spinners Shahbaz (three for 23) and Abhishek (2 for 24) tied the Royals’ batsmen into knots.
Till Qualifier 2, it was Abhishek’s bat making many of the noise with 470 runs coming off his willow in 14 innings. Whereas he may add solely 12 extra runs to it on Friday, it was his bowling spell of two for 24, which included wickets of Rajasthan Royals’ skipper Sanju Samson (10) and Shimron Hetmyer (4), that took SRH into the ultimate.
Because the workforce entered the lodge foyer upon its return from the MA Chidambaram Stadium, the lodge employees had organized for a cake, which was reduce by the spin twins. However Shahbaz had no concept of what was coming subsequent as one among his teammates took an enormous chunk from the cake and smeared it on Shahbaz’s face, a lot to the amusement of the remainder of the squad watching on.
In addition to that enjoyable, skipper Pat Cummins, Klaasen and Shahbaz additionally linked with the followers from the SRH dressing room after the win.
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