KKR vs SRH: Will rain cause washout in IPL 2024 Final? Check Chennai weather forecast ahead of big clash

The ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League will finally come to an end with the summit clash between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024 Final that will be played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, on May 26 (Sunday). However, fans are worried that rain does not spoil the match proceedings.

Chennai Weather forecast

The good news for fans is that the Chennai weather forecast has not predicted too much rain. according to Accuweather's report, there is only a 3 per cent chance of rain, and that too only passing showers. It is highly unlikely that rain will play spoilsport during the game time. However, the weather has been quite unpredictable and has caused a washout on several occasions. There was rain on the eve of the big clash, which also affected the Knights' practice session. 

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What happens if KKR vs SRH gets washed out?

The good news is that even if the rain causes a washout on Sunday. There is a whole reserve day available on Monday to complete the match. There were no reserve days for the rest of playoffs matches but that won't be the case in the big finale.

Squads

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Anmolpreet Singh, Glenn Phillips (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Upendra Yadav (wk), Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Sanvir Singh, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh, Mayank Agarwal

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