Bollywood superstar and Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan made his first public appearance since suffering a heat stroke as he attended the IPL Final against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday. Accompanied by his wife Gauri Khan, Shah Rukh was seen wearing a mask and celebrating with his family as KKR put on a stellar bowling performance.
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Shah Rukh Khan, 58, was hospitalized in Ahmedabad after he suffered a heat stroke following KKR's Qualifier 1 match against SRH. He was discharged after a couple of days and made his return to the public eye at the final match. His children, Suhana and Aryan Khan, joined him and Gauri in the stands, supporting their team.
In the match, SRH captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat. “We will bat first. Looks like a good wicket. There was no dew the other night, and we have a style which doesn’t always work, but when it does, it’s very damaging. I want to crack with the bat first. We have done well defending scores,” Cummins said at the toss.
KKR captain Shreyas Iyer mentioned he would have preferred to bowl first. “We would have bowled. We’ll get a fair idea about how the pitch will play. It’s a red soil, and we played our last game on a similar surface. Every individual is taking responsibility, this is a big game, and we have plenty of people who are playing in a final for the first time. We need to stick to the basics and execute our plans,” Iyer stated.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan.