{"id":21785,"date":"2024-05-27T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=441725"},"modified":"2024-05-27T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:37:29","slug":"shreyas-iyer-recreates-messis-iconic-celebration-after-ipl-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/shreyas-iyer-recreates-messis-iconic-celebration-after-ipl-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Shreyas Iyer recreates Messi\u2019s iconic celebration after IPL triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Kolkata Knight Riders\u2019 historic victory against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024 final at the M Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, captain Shreyas Iyer made headlines by recreating Lionel Messi\u2019s iconic FIFA World Cup celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Shreyas Iyer-led side scripted history with an emphatic 8-wicket win over SRH, clinching the IPL trophy. After the match, Iyer received the trophy from BCCI President Roger Binny and BCCI Secretary Jay Shah. To mark the momentous occasion, Iyer emulated Messi\u2019s famous celebration, reminiscent of Argentina\u2019s World Cup victory in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Iyer and his team recreated the epic moment as he handed over the trophy to Rinku Singh, with the entire squad reveling in the glory. This victory marked KKR\u2019s third IPL title, with their inaugural triumph also taking place at Chepauk under Gautam Gambhir\u2019s leadership in 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shreyas Iyer handed the Trophy to Rinku Singh for celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Leader. \ud83d\udc4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V8Pb55ZPQX\">pic.twitter.com\/V8Pb55ZPQX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1794811015898759202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Kolkata Knight Riders\u2019 historic victory against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024 final at the M Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3720,239,658],"class_list":["post-21785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2024","tag-messi","tag-shreyas-iyer"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21785","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=21785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}