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BCCI Secretary Jay Shah announced the reward on Monday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced rewards for groundsmen and pitch curators of IPL 2024. Groundsmen and pitch curators working at 10 venues this season of IPL will get Rs 25 lakh each and three additional venues (Dharamshala, Visakhapatnam and Guwahati) will get Rs 10 lakh.
BCCI Secretary Jai Shah gave this information on Monday. He tweeted, ‘The unsung heroes of our successful T20 season are the ground staff, who prepared excellent pitches even in bad weather. We would like to reward them for their hard work. Groundsmen and pitch curators at the 10 regular IPL venues will get Rs 25 lakh each and the three additional venues will get Rs 10 lakh. Thank you for your dedication and hard work.
This season of IPL was played at these venues
This season of IPL was played at 10 venues. This included Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Kolkata, Lucknow, Gujarat and Mumbai. Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals also played some of their matches on other home grounds. Apart from the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, Delhi played in Visakhapatnam, Punjab played in Dharamshala besides Mullanpur while Rajasthan chose Guwahati as its second home ground besides Jaipur.
Kolkata became champion
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has won the title of IPL-2024. The team defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 8 wickets in the final match. Kolkata has become champion in this league for the third time. The team has won the title after 10 years. Last time Kolkata became champion in 2014.
On Sunday, Hyderabad won the toss and chose to bat at Chepauk ground and were all out for 113 runs in 18.3 overs. This is the lowest score of the IPL final. Kolkata achieved the target for 2 wickets in 10.3 overs. This is the fastest run chase of the IPL final. Mitchell Starc was the player of the final. He took 2 wickets and also caught 2 catches.
Kolkata defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the IPL 2024 final.
