Champions League Twenty20, Final: Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders- Kings humble the Knights; forge 8-wicket victory to lift cup
Player of the match - P Negi (Chennai Super Kings)
CSK beat KKR by 8 wickets (with 9 balls to spare) to lift Champions League T20 trophy.
No one can take this win away from CSK as they need 8 runs in two overs.
18 overs- 173/2
Suresh Raina scores 100 runs off 60 balls.
CSK need 20 runs in 18 balls.
CSK neeed 32 to win from 24 balls
MS Dhoni 4 off balls
Suresh Raina 93 off 54 balls
16 overs- 149/2
Chennai Super Kings require another 42 runs with 8 wickets and 31 balls remaining
15 overs- 140/2.
13.1 overs- 127/2
WICKET! McCullum smashes one straight into the hands of ten Doeschate off the very first ball of Pathan over. Scores 39 off 30balls.
Kuldeep Yadav bowls a dismal over to give away 16 runs. More misery piles on for KKR.
13 overs- 127/1
12 overs- 111/1
Unstoppable CSK enroute victory as a helpless KKR look to sytop their surge.
11 overs- 100/1
10 overs- 90/1
Raina scores a half-century. 50 off 27 balls
Suresh Raina leads a spirited charge with 46 off 26 balls.
Suryakumar Yadav bowls a good over to part with only 3 runs.
8 overs- 69/1
CSK putting up a gutsy, resilient performance.
7 overs- 66/1
KKR bowling cautiously to keep CSK batsmen contained.
3 overs- 26/1
2 overs- 19/1
1 over- 13/1
WICKET! 0.5 overs- 9/1. DR Smith b Cummins 8 5b.
CSK batsmen Brendon McCullum and Dwayne Smith walk in to face Pat Cummins in the first over
INNINGS BREAK
CSK need 181 runs to win in 20 overs.
20 overs- 180/6.
19 overs- 161/6
WICKET! Manish Pandey 32 off 19 balls. MK Pandey c McCullum b Negi. It is too late but the damage has already been done.
18.1 overs- 159/4
17 overs- 139/3
16.2- 136/3
WICKET! Gambhir the in-form dangerous-looking left hander takes a long, disappointing walk back to the pavillion. G Gambhir c McCullum b Jadeja 80 52b
M Pandey- 7 off 8 balls
Gambhir- 65 off 43 balls
15 overs- 118/2
Chennai jolt KKR's batting after claiming two quick wickets. On both the occasions Negi was on target for CSK.
13 overs- 106/2
10.5 overs- 91/1
WICKET! Uthappa departs for 39 off 32 balls. RV Uthappa st †Dhoni b Negi
10 overs- 89/0.
'SIR' Jadeja gives away 10 runs at a time the team's bowling department is struggling to put an end to an increasingly dangerous-looking partnership.
9 overs- 79/0
Uthappa- 30 off 24 balls
Gambhir- 38 off 24 balls
Chennai outfit lacking a game plan as they still haven't been able to scalp the first wicket to brek the current, strong, ongoing partnership.
8 overs- 70/0
6 overs- 54/0
Robin Uthappa doesn't spare the harsh treatment to Mohit Sharma.
5 overs- 47/0. Ashwin takes the beating as the last ball of the over is lofted over the boundary ropes by Uthappa.
4 overs- 36/0. KKR gain momentum through Gambhir and Robin Uthappa
3 overs- 29/0
2 overs- 19/0
Toss: Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Squads
KKR- RV Uthappa, G Gambhir(c), JH Kallis, MK Pandey, YK Pathan, RN ten Doeschate, SA Yadav, AD Russell, PJ Cummins, PP Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav
CSK- DR Smith, BB McCullum, SK Raina, F du Plessis, DJ Bravo, MS Dhoni(c), RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, P Negi, MM Sharma, A Nehra