{"id":21712,"date":"2024-05-08T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T09:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=437475"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T09:03:15","slug":"ipl-2024-kkr-finally-reach-kolkata-after-unexpected-stop-at-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2024-kkr-finally-reach-kolkata-after-unexpected-stop-at-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2024: KKR finally reach Kolkata after \u2018unexpected\u2019 stop at Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KKR players spent Monday night in Varanasi after their Kolkata-bound flight was diverted to Guwahati and then Varanasi due to extreme weather in Kolkata. The Knight Riders finally landed in Kolkata after taking another flight to the city on Tuesday morning. The ecstatic KKR team flew from Lucknow after thumping LSG by 98 runs on May 6, Monday. However, due to thunderstorms in Kolkata, the team could not land in the city of joy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qnOwii8zC9\">pic.twitter.com\/qnOwii8zC9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKRiders\/status\/1787830219316797873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201c20 hours after taking off from Lucknow, flying more than 8 hours mid-air with extreme turbulence, after 2 diversions to Guwahati and Varanasi and getting an unexpected darshan of Kashi Vishwanath Shiva temple and river Ganges, we finally land in the land of joy once again, Kolkata,\u201d KKR spinner Chakaravarthy\u2019s Instagram story caption read.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kolkata is expected to experience varying pre-monsoon showers, complete with severe lightning and strong thunder accompanied by gusty winds, as reported by Skymet Weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2024-will-kkr-vs-mi-be-the-first-draw-of-the-season-weather-forecast-predicts-heavy-rain\/\">Also Read: Weather forecast of KKR vs MI on May 11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city recently witnessed significant rainfall, with Alipore recording 71mm and Dum Dum 49mm. These showers have brought relief from the extreme heatwave conditions that peaked at 43\u00b0C on April 30th, cooling the city to around 35\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Recent weather changes have been influenced by a cyclonic circulation over Jharkhand and Odisha and anticyclonic winds from the Bay of Bengal, which have enhanced moisture levels.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures this week will generally stay in the low to mid-30s but are expected to climb towards the high 30s next week, potentially surpassing 40\u00b0C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KKR players spent Monday night in Varanasi after their Kolkata-bound flight was diverted to Guwahati and then Varanasi due to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-21712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-kkr"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}