Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 final match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Sunday, former India cricketer Anil Kumble praised KKR. They have been an all-round team in the tournament, with KKR finishing the league stage on top of the points table with nine wins, three losses and two no-results, giving them 20 points. They defeated SRH in Qualifier One to earn a direct spot in the final. SRH got the second spot in the title clash against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Qualifier 2 and they made the most of it by defeating the 'Men in Pink' by 36 runs. Speaking to JioCinema, Kumble praised Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer and said that he is calm and has used his resources well in the ongoing T20 tournament.The former cricketer said that Shreyas got the best out of Andre Russell with bat and ball. "KKR has been an all-round team, be it ball or bat. You name it, you have players including Rinku Singh who are yet to be included. When you have explosive batsmen, a bowler like Starc who is coming into form, So we saw good impact in the last game and Shreyas Iyer has also done exceptionally well, he is calm and has used his resources well against Russell and he has the bat and the ball. Both have lethal capability.'' He further said that both Kolkata and Hyderabad have redefined how to play. "Both of these teams have redefined how to approach the powerplay, and we have done that. This is a surface that requires you to use the powerplay and we saw how SRH did that "Two teams that have performed well throughout the tournament have been in constant touch right from the first ball and it's no surprise that they are playing the final in Chennai on Sunday," he added Sunrisers Hyderabad team: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Ed Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins (captain) Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Jaydev Unadkat, Shahbaz Ahmed, Umran Malik Sanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Mayank Agarwal, Washington Sundar, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Jhatved Subramanian, Vijaykant Vyaskant, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh Kolkata Knight Riders Team: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Anukul Roy, Manis Pandey, Nitish Rana, Shrikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Dushmantha Chameera Chetan Sakariya, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Saqib Hussain, Suyyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar.