The hilarious story behind 'Final match, you perform, what happening?' query that left Sunil Narine, Andre Russell in splits in KKR video
The social media handles of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have shared a hilarious video of all-rounders Sunil Narine and Andre Russell being interviewed over the franchise's brilliant IPL 2024 win. This twist was that both were posed the viral, 'final match, you perform. What happening?' query and were left in splits.
Narine, who is known as someone who doesn't express a lot, broke out into a spontaneous laughter immediately after the question was posed to him. Russell was almost embarrassed with the query but played along and recreated his 'what do you mean?' reaction from the original viral interview.
For those wondering what's so funny about the question, 'final match, you perform. What happening?' was a query posed to Narine, Russell and Moeen Ali by a reporter not well-versed with English during an edition of the Bangladesh Premier League.
While Narine just laughed when the viral query was posed to him in the recent video, Russell admitted that he was surprised, as he was expecting a serious question.
"I wasn’t' expecting that. I was like, serious, ready for a question. I'm like, okay. That was a good one."
Kolkata Knight Riders have been sharing a number of fun videos on social media following their IPL 2024 triumph on Sunday. KKR beat SRH by eight wickets in the final at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Bowling first, Kolkata came up with a brilliant performance to restrict Hyderabad to 113 before chasing down the target in 10.3 overs.
Russell was superb with the ball, registering figures of 3-19 from 2.3 overs. While Mitchell Starc and Harshit Rana picked up two wickets each, Narine also chipped in with the scalp of Jaydev Unadkat and conceded only 16 runs in his four overs.
In the chase, Narine fell for 6, but Venkatesh Iyer (52* off 26) and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (39* off 32) ensured a comprehensive victory for KKR.
Narine and Russell excelled in IPL 2024
Both Narine and Russsell had exceptional IPL 2024 campaigns. Narine slammed 488 runs in 14 innings at an average of 34.86 and a strike rate of 180.74. With his off-spin, he claimed 17 scalps at an average of 21.65.
Russell picked up 19 wickets in 14 matches with his medium pace at an excellent average of 15.53 and also contributed 222 runs in nine innings at a strike rate of 185.