IPL 2024 Playoff: BCCI's unique initiative, every dot ball will bring greenery

• Match between Hyderabad and Kolkata in Qualifier-1
  
• Board of Control for Cricket in India took a unique initiative
  
• BCCI will plant 500 saplings on each dot ball in the playoffs
  

Kolkata Knight Riders will face Sunrisers Hyderabad today in Qualifier-1 of IPL 2024. In this match being played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat. One thing caught the attention of the fans during the match. Instead of the dot ball, either a tree emoji or a green dot is visible on the score card. In such a situation, the question has arisen that what does this mean?

BCCI's unique initiative

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has started a unique initiative. Under this, BCCI will plant 500 saplings on every dot ball in the playoffs. This was seen in the last season also. After IPL 2023, the Board of Control for Cricket in India planted 1,47,000 saplings in 4 states Assam, Gujarat, Karnataka and Kerala. This initiative of BCCI is also being appreciated a lot. This is a very good initiative from environmental point of view.

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Hyderabad all out for 159 runs

Talking about the match, after winning the toss and deciding to bat first, Sunrisers Hyderabad were all out for 159 runs in 19.3 overs. Rahul Tripathi played the highest innings of 55 runs. Apart from them, wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen scored 32 runs and captain Pat Cummins scored 30 runs. Mitchell Starc scored 3 runs for Kolkata Knight Riders. Apart from them, Varun Chakraborty took 2 wickets and Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell took 1 wicket each. If Kolkata Knight Riders want to make it to the finals, they will have to score 160 runs in 20 overs.