The Indian Premier League (IPL), the biggest stage of franchise cricket, seems to be coming to an end. The 17th edition of the tournament is going to come down today through the final due to various incidents.Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad will meet in the final to be held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai today. The match will be held at 8 pm Bangladesh time. Even though IPL star fair, this year’s final will be a different picture. Most of the world’s star cricketers have returned to their homeland for the upcoming T20 World Cup. Along with this, there is no Indian cricketer who has been called to the World Cup squad in the two teams that are going to the final in this tournament.Before this, Shah Rukh Khan’s team has played the finals in three IPL events so far. Knight Riders won the title in 2012 and 2014 but lost the final to Chennai in 2021. On the other hand, Hyderabad entered the IPL for the first time in 2016. The team tasted the title for the first time after defeating Bengaluru in the final in their first season. Tiger pacer Mostafizur Rahman was an important member of the Hyderabad team in that event. Then in 2018, Sunrisers reached the final for the second time. The team lost the title that year to Chennai Super Kings.

Kolkata and Hyderabad have faced each other 27 times in the entire season of IPL. All that shows that the victory margin is heavy for Knight Riders. Kolkata has 18 wins against Hyderabad’s 9 wins. In the first phase of the current season, Kolkata won twice against Hyderabad.

However, cricket experts have been saying for a long time that there is no such thing as a good team or a bad team in the T20 format. The team that plays well in the field game will smile the smile of victory. So it is to be seen whether Russell, Narines can win the title in the final or Pat Cummins, Travis Hedra who won the World Cup by defeating the hosts on Indian soil. Or will Kolkata win the title for the third time after beating Hyderabad?