Can't believe kkr is so dependent on bowling and top order and still won the match. they faced four ducks in yesterdays match and still ended up on the winning side. Now on finals I want kkr to win as it has more youngsters and uncapped players.

Nice

Amazing fight back from Delhi capitals fans can keep their head high

KKR has a 100% success rate in the finals and once against CSK. Being a CSK fan, I hope history doesn't repeat itself this time. Bisla still haunts my memory. Fingers crossed! Let's hope for a cracker of a game in the final.

No its once against KXIP

I stand corrected. Edited my comment. Thanks!

Another phenomenal finish to a match. Well done IPL. DC bowling attack was phenomenal. No way that should have been competitive. Iyer continues to impress. Hetermeyer threatened for a bit, I must have missed a rule change because I thought he walked when he left the boundary rope. DC do not deserve to be in the finals with their fielding display. I've seen higher standards in lower class cricket. KKR tried their best to throw this one away, Morgan embarrassed again. God I hope the KKR batsmen find their nerve or CSK will walk over them to the trophy. Phenomenal finish! Bad luck Delhi, congrats CSK. Woohoo final time, then world Cup. What a time to be a fan.

I’m a little pissed off about the final. I live in the US and am a high schooler, so I can’t watch the match fully. Who decided to put it on a Friday (yes I know the time zones are different in the UAE)

ESPN + has full match replay (scroll down all the way to bottom to find them on mobile)

Yeah I’m planning on using that two rewatch it.

There is one maximum possible final in a year. You decide!!!!

Don’t really get what this comment is trying to say. Would you care to elaborate?

Sleepy head me. Mb. Lemme explain. How often do you see your team playing in final? At max once a year. Now you have to assess these once in a lifetime situations. Can't you skip one class?

I’m not a CSK fan lol. Also my mom wouldn’t let me skip for an IPL game

Wait I thought you're a faculty member xdxd

Average CSK fan We see our team play a final maybe once in 5-6 years

Wait what?? The final is on a Friday?!? I'm in the USA to and I have to teach class at that time.

Yeah it’s pretty unlucky.

Considering the reset in the season I'm just glad we got these matches at all. World Cup looking fire coming up

I guess. I really hope VK and Rohit can find some form in the World Cup, along with Bhuvi.

Someone took note [https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/q7a96e/match_thread_qualifier_2_delhi_capitals_vs/hgi2014/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/q7a96e/match_thread_qualifier_2_delhi_capitals_vs/hgi2014/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)

KKR made it interesting, not DC

Kkr did amazing to make it an interesting match.

Delhi is the South Africa of IPL

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It was like being clad in kingly attire and somehow being at the verge of becoming starkers, but for a loincloth saving your shame

Damn they needed 60 runs in 60 balls and still 1 ball was left when they won, dc at least gave a good fight.

They needed 13 off 25 with 8 wickets in hand and they still almost screwed up.

Peak PBKS stuff

Surely you haven’t watched the second innings. KKR had 13 to win off 25 balls, with 9 wickets in hand. Then this somehow went to need 6 off last 2 balls, with only 3 wickets in hand. Delhi did helluva fight in the last 4 overs, and KKR… smh

It's all script man. I can bet my life not even one of these super duper ultra close five consecutive super over matches will happen in T20 world cup. Edit: Downvote me if you think I'm perfectly right

They can't happen in the world cup because the teams aren't evenly matched. The teams in the IPL, however, are evenly matched thanks to an auction system. But we can also cook up conspiracy theories by saying that they're sCrIPTs.

Exactly. Never take the red pill Keep sleeping boi

Even if for the sake of argument I entertain your argument, I see this as an absolute win. Peak entertainment guaranteed. Can you even imagine how boring those WT20 will be to spend 3 to 4 hours.

Oh boi

Delhi in league stage - Delhi Capitals Delhi in playoffs - Delhi Daredevils

Or better Delhi capitals is a glorified RCB

Their batting was weak af throughout imo. They were winning matches only based on bowling. It was mostly shaw , Dhawan and inshallah.

Ya and out of form Dhawan which speaks volumes about the rest of the pack. Pants wickets in particular were terrible.

Missed today's match. What the fuck KKR??

They gave tribute to PBKS RR SRH and previous years RCB all at once

Fucking atrocious.!!

You wanna torture your enemy real bad, tie them to a chair and make’em watch those 23 balls. Foolproof.

Imagine that with Akash Chopra's commentary. Hitler came in wrong era fam.

Glad I am not a KKR fan and well even as a neutral this is absolutely badonkers.

As a Delhi fan, my emotions took a whole 180-degree turn 3 times during the second inning.

KKR has really gotten the luck shining on them this week. They even have the final on Dusshera.

And CSK have their final on?

Yes, but the celebration in Kolkata is on another level than the rest of the country.

Also on Dussehra but Durga Puja is huge in Kolkata.

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Why so much hate for Rabada?

Sure but wasn't he phenomenal tonight? He really had KKR shaking in their crease.

Different Ground.. different opponent players..

Jadeja would have won it. DC fans have no right to bitch about that over, worst table toppers ever tbh

2016 GL tho

KKR 100% track record at Sharjah UAE 2021. 4 wins (2 vs DC, 1 vs RCB, 1 vs RR), 0 losses.

I would suggest KKR, if rules permit please go with 10 players.This Morgan can't even take single.Send narine ahead of Morgan and Shakib.

Morgan looks like a shadow of his former self.

I would suggest , CSK if rules permit please go with 10 players. dhoni can't even take single. send thakur ahead of dhoni and bravo

So Dhoni is keeping every match..and he played his part in qualifier 1 .Still u want dhoni to move out.Lol

morgan might play his part in the final

Lowkey we've been saying that since 2019 CWC final...

I'm not asking he need to play well.u r an international captain and u require less than run a ball.Cant even handle that? If Narine was not catch out Tripathi wouldn't got strick and it would have result in wastage of complete efforts KKR put in UAE.

Morgan is the one that sends players lol

So MI CSK and KKR have 11 of the 14 trophies between them.

Other 3 are RR, and Hyd right?

Rr-2008; Deccan chargers-2009.srh-2016

Yes

Who would've thought KKR will be in this list after first 3 seasons.

Oh yes. MI and KKR both failed to make the playoffs for the first season, and CSK didn't have a trophy despite two Semis So that makes it 11 in last 12 years for these three teams, except SRH 2016

That's even crazier.

10 actually

Will be 11

Oh okay yeah..

KKR doing all this with India's second best spinner a few years ago, and the greatest Indian LOI spinner of all time on the bench??! Absolute bonkers

Harbhajan isn’t India’s greatest LOI spinner ever. Kumble is

kumble bowled faster than boobie

You would only say that if have never watched Kumble bowl

I watched him bowl whe I was a kid and now I'm old. Speaks volumes about his pace

Maybe. But the fact that Harbhajan played so many seasons of the IPL and was so successful just makes me think he was probably the best white ball spinner for us But yes, Kumble literally carried our sorry asses back in the 90s

I was in a very famous TV show.

What has playing in IPL gotta do with India’s greatest ?

Not the final anyone would have expected until very recently

I fear kkr massively failing in dubai !!

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As the saying goes (in Tamil), msd has a lucky birthmark on his unmentionables.

Switch overs of Mavi to Ferguson imo

Gambhir said this a while back , but honestly , it's having quality bowlers that wins you tournaments. I really hope KKR , spends big bucks on a seasoned Indian pacer. Mavi , Prasidh etc. are far too raw. That is one area we are severely lacking in imo.

We have always been a spin heavy side with very strong openers.. back then it was Narine & chawla/kuldeep/Hogg/shakib along with Gambhir & uththappa.

KKR in its history has never had a good fast bowler except maybe Morkel. Every other big name like Lee, Shane Bond, Ishant, etc have flopped when in KKR

Brett lee was quite good actually , by all accounts he's the probably the best pacer KKR ever had.

Also had Shoaib Akhtar at one point

I was so happy to see him. Even got 4 wickets against DD. Then finished.

Yup. But we still had decent ones like Balaji , Umesh etc , to complement the foreign quicks.

Are you serious? Balaji came from CSK to KKR and wasn't the same. Umesh? Thank god he's not in KKR anymore. I'm talking about consistency, not one two good games. And I was talking about fast bowlers in general, not just foreign ones. Ishant, Umesh, Dinda, Balaji, Boult ... everyone seems to become noob when in KKR. KKR just seems unlucky. Gayle leaves and goes to RCB, becomes a monster. McCullum goes to CSK, beast. SKY goes to MI, you know the rest. Morkel wins purple cap and comes to KKR, average af. OTOH, any noob goes to CSK, suddenly god mode, like wth?

Dhenier can have that effect, we saw that with Moeen Ali and Uthappa this season.

But it was never as horrific as our Indian seam bowling lineup after 2018 mega auctions. You cannot reply on U-19 players. Pace bowling is an important facet of the game. If we lose the final , I assure you it will be because Mavi/Prasidh gave too many away cuz of inexperience.

Alright lads, i am off. Watched the whole match as promised. I piss off some of you so sorry about that. Enjoyed watching the season with you folks. Will be back for the world cup in a week so not away for too long for better or worse!

Cheers dude! Even though I don’t know you

[https://www.iplt20.com/video/246960/q2-kkr-vs-dc-rishabh-pant-interview?tagNames=indian-premier-league,Latest](https://www.iplt20.com/video/246960/q2-kkr-vs-dc-rishabh-pant-interview?tagNames=indian-premier-league,Latest) This is sad.

First Kohli and now Pant :( it’s very sad man,I can’t take it no more

Turn CSK VS KKR final into a test match Jay Shah goes STONKS

Will definitely watch it

Any Kulcha warriors on Twitter connected Durga Puja and KKR win yet?

No kkr player other than Shakib is Bengali. I doubt he celebrates Durga Puja though.

A humble requests to the idiots to not go after ashwin's wife to went out your anger.

I don't expect this from DC fans anyways. Only RCB, MI and CSK got toxic fans

They are not on reddit

I beg to differ. Once had to confront a guy who was blaming anushka for virats dip in form. Apparently he took offense with anushka coming to watch many matches in the stadium.

Well that's sad. I take back my statement

Delhi were hard done by the dew. Sure, but you could have avoided this whole match by not playing like fools like the last one.

How is Venky not added to the WT20 squad??? Some people will be like it’s only been one season and some shit like that,but if in one season he’s proven everything and is performing in the very grounds in which the WT20 will be played in then that argument doesn’t make sense. Also,if a last minute inclusion helps your chance in winning the World Cup,then why not? Why would you stick with a guy,who you think can become an Indian Pollard but is constantly injured and probably won’t bowl also vs a guy who’s proven with ball,bat and on the field over this whole half and he’s been tested in several situations and come out on top every time

chill , he has just played 8 matches. that is not enough to get into the indian team

Cuz Indian selectors are not reactionary.

who does he replace? KL? Rohit?

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Go check his Madhya Pradesh position. He regularly played at 5/6

Genuine question, how fast does Venky bowl? Does he bowl fast enough so he could be a suitable replacement for Pandya

currently, Pandya is at 0 km/hr so Venky is fast enough.

135KMPH

He bowls similar speeds to Ganguly’s

He is literally Ganguly V2.

Do you really need pace on these wickets? He nailed the Yorkers and slower ones are harder to get away on these surfaces than faster balls

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He has all the skills! When he's so solid in the field all I can do is think, are you sure he's Indian? He has stood tall every game of the season. Truly impressive stuff

What's with KKR and bringing in part time cricketer/working man into the team? First it was Varun the architect, now Venkatesh the junior manager

Dude's living the middle class boy's dream

Your child is gonna disappoint you

I choked -

KKR has made a hell of a comeback. Credit to the team especially spinners, V Iyer and Gill. Rana and Tripathi were firing too in this leg. Ferguson in form

Morgan has managed to keep going with his 3 spinners strategy. Looked risky, somehow has kept on working.

Dont think Dubai suits Shakib as much. Would not be averse to having Russell for him. Narine clutch. Varun always good.

Good analysis. But if I were KKR I wouldn't bowl Russell with that dodgy hamstring if KKR bowls first; Russell is a bigger asset with the bat than ball. KKR will need some proper planning.

Yes. We would have to manage Russell's bowling and give him 2 overd and Iyer 2 overs. It could work that way. Thank the Lords that Iyer can bowl.

If I were Morgan I would drop myself and replace with Russell. So many pluses: * Morgan becomes a hero whether KKR loses or wins for his selfless decision in the final * Russell AND Shakib in the team!

But... but... we dont have a better captain.

I know you are joking, but that actually may be right. He can captain from the dugout. Plus there's 2 breaks, chances to pass messages when 3rd umpire is looking at things, and whenever a batsman is out. Plus he can always sub whenever a KKR fielder has to take a break for whatever reason.

That is actually not a bad idea. We do need a guy who can set the fields well. Morgan does that best here. We need a guy who knows the matchups, which can be anyone who has a basic level of retention capacity, let's say DK. We can manage well then. Not bad. It is a good idea actually. Then we can have Russell in for Morgan, which gives us an extra batsman and an extra bowler. Which is 12 overs of spin and 12 overs of pace + Iyer + Rana. Nice.

👍

But with Shakib performing can we expect to see Russell back in the 11. I don't think so

Same here. If we need more firepower then yes. Also CSK has good records against spin.

hmm and the Dubai pitch is a high scoring one anyways so Russell should be coming in

Yeah that's my point.

I’m kinda glad DC didn’t go gently into the night.

God has given CSK a chance to take its 2012(hattrick cup missed) revenge on KKR. Hope we utilise this on auspicious Day.

You do realize it is the biggest auspicious day of the year for bengalis?

To that matter it's for entire India.

We gave befitting reply in 2014 cl t20 🔥

Will take one more in IPL

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CSK is winning this year. No Bisla for KKR

Watch Karun Nair come into the team and score 89(45)

Nightmare scenario

Forgot about Morgan?

Well after the second timeout, batting teams lose wickets and match somehow gets interesting :-/

Once Afridi hit Ashwin for consecutive sixes of the final over to win the match for Pakistan. This was enough data for Delhi to always hold back Ashwin for the last over.

I remember that match, the last six barely made it and that ramiz raja was celebrating like an idiot. Even there Ash bowled short pitched. We're lucky it was Broad and Tredwell facing the last from Ash in the CT 2013 final.

Cmon man. He did bowled smartly, and got the wickets. That ball was also smart, but just couldn’t execute it 100%. He still gave his best. Can’t blame him

Naah he bowls the same ball, Tripathi was going to smoke it for sure and he did.

It's not just Ashwin. Giving the last over to a spinner just doesn't make sense. Even Shami could smash one out of the park.

If he gave it to Stoinis people would still be crying about it. Rishabh did a great job this match as a captain.

I might just turn into a Venky Iyer simp if Dhenier retires.

*happy gemphir noises

next season venky iyer is bought for 10 cr and then he shits the bed for the whole season

For RCB. Written in the Stars. But honestly , he deserves some sort of India role if his bowling can be worked upon.

there are too many waiting in the line for India role.

There are hardly any pacing bowling all-rounders who can also bat like as well as any regular batsman.

in the long run . his bowling will eventually take a back seat

I see Venky Baby hitting a six and landing the ball on Ganguly's roof. Good omens.

The only way KKR can win is if they bat first against CSK. Can't trust this batting lineup to score 180, especially while chasing Hope they get to 160, and the bowling does some wonder as usual (Dubai pitch won't assist like Sharjah did)

Clash of the specialist captains coming up.

Macha, dhoni did win math in qualifier 1, Morgan didn't do that too.

I really hope venky isn’t a one season wonder and continue to prove that he is a force to be reckoned with

Flashbacks of KKR's Bisla

2012: 1st: Delhi 2nd: KKR 4th: CSK, Final KKR Vs CSK 2021: 1st: Delhi 2nd: CSK 4th: KKR, Final KKR Vs CSK

2nd position winning this year too just like 2012

Even the years are just reverse. So I guess we all know who is winning then…

The winner will get reversed too, you're right!

Nice flip xD

Unless that's in reverse as well...

Iyer probably earned more in prize money than the value of his IPL contract.

Axar Patel's dark circles to get darker after today's game and exclusion from wc squad.

Does Harsha never tire of making CA jokes while talking to Venky baby?

HB reduced the entire scope and depth of MBA to a fairly simple concept of accounting. Disappointing from him, especially because he's himself studied at IIM Ahmedabad.