hennai, May 27: Kolkata Knight Riders claimed their maiden IPL trophy by defeating Chennai Super Kings by five wickets here on Sunday night.
Here are the highlights of IPL 5 final.
# Kolkata won their maiden IPL title with two balls to spare, chasing 191. They lost five wickets
# Manvinder Bisla was brilliant on the night. His 89 was the key in KKR's triumph. His knock came off 48 balls with eight fours and five sixes
# Jacques Kallis played the supporting role with 69 off 49 balls
# Chennai had won previous two finals after batting first. But this time, they could not repeat that feat
# KKR needed 9 runs off the final over and they finished game in four balls
# Kallis and Bisla put on a game-changing 136-run partnership in 13.4 overs
# Bisla was the Man-of-the-match
# Yusuf Pathan won his second IPL title with two different titles. He had won in 2008 with Rajasthan Royals
# It was also second IPL trophy for Laxmipathy Balaji. He won in 2010 with Chennai
# Kolkata's chase was off to a disastrous start as Hilfenhaus got captain Gautam Gambhir bowled for two in the first over
# Kolkata reached 56/1 in first six overs of powerplay
# Chennai captain MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first
# CSK scored 54/0 in first 6 overs of powerplay
# Chennai were 86/0 in 10 overs. In 15 overs, they had made 136/1
# Suresh Raina hit 5 sixes in his breezy 38-ball 73
# Michael Hussey scored 54 off 43 balls
# Chennai scored 8 sixes and 13 fours
# Chennai had three good partnerships, 87 (10.2 overs, Hussey-Murali Vijay), 73 (6.5, Hussey-Raina) and 30 (2.5, Dhoni-Raina)
# Kolkata's most successful bowler in IPL 5, Sunil Narine could not weave his magic tonight as he went wicketless for 37 runs in four overs
# Chennai were unchanged from the previous game
# Kolkata made three changes. Laxmipathy Balaji was injured while Brendon McCullum and Debabrata Das were dropped. Manvinder Bisla and Manoj Tiwary returned to the playing XI
# Chennai were playing in their third straight final and fourth overall
# Chennai had won both finals in 2010 and 2011 after batting first
# In previous finals, Chennai beat Mumbai Indians by 22 runs in 2010 and got the better of Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs last year
# Previous three finals (2009, 2010, 2011)have been won by sides batting first
# 9 of Chennai's players were featuring in the final from the second year in a row. Ravindra Jadeja and Ben Hilfenhaus were the two new faces
# 7 Chennai players were in their third straight finals
# Dhoni, Vijay, Suresh Raina, Subramaniam Badrinath, Ravichandran Ashwin, Albie Morkel and Shadab Jakati are the seven players who in second straight final
# Hussey celebrated his 37th birthday today
# Australia umpire Simon Taufel officiated in his fourth straight IPL final
# Raina became the only player in IPL to have scored 400 or more runs in each of the five editions
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