An inauspicious start for the Australian pacer Mitchell Starc for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on IPL return was the biggest talking point as the home team survived a scare against the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their opening game of the 2024 edition at Eden Gardens on Saturday, March 23. Starc, who last played in the IPL in 2015, was paid a massive sum of INR 24.75 crore by the Knight Riders in the 2024 auction but Heinrich Klaasen ruined his comeback smashing three sixes off him and Shahbaz Ahmed capped it off with one more off the last ball, in the penultimate over of the innings.
