Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 5 wickets in last Ball thrill. CSK needed 5 runs in last ball and Dwayne Bravo Bravo smashed Rajat Bhatia for a six over long on at Eden Gardens. Bhatia releases a high full toss with 5 runs to defend, Bravo swings for the big one and the ball just flies towards the long on fence. Chennai began their chase splendidly, riding on a 97-run opening partnership between Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay both added 97 runs in 10.1 overs before Sunil Narine dismissed both of them in the space of three balls. Chennai Super Kings lost four wickets for just 30 runs in a span of nearly seven overs.
Full Score Card :
Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets (with 0 balls remaining) :
| Kolkata Knight Riders innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| G Gambhir* | b Jakati | 62 | 43 | 6 | 3 | 144.18 | ||
| BB McCullum† | run out (Anirudha/†Dhoni) | 37 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 127.58 | ||
| JH Kallis | c Ashwin b Jakati | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | ||
| MK Tiwary | c Bravo b Jadeja | 12 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 85.71 | ||
| YK Pathan | c Bravo b Ashwin | 11 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 137.50 | ||
| DB Das | not out | 19 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 190.00 | ||
| LR Shukla | c Raina b Hilfenhaus | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 150.00 | ||
| R Bhatia | not out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 20 overs) | 158 | (7.90 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SP Narine, L Balaji, M de Lange |
| Fall of wickets 1-99 (McCullum, 11.3 ov), 2-100 (Gambhir, 12.1 ov), 3-111 (Kallis, 14.4 ov), 4-127 (Pathan, 16.6 ov), 5-128 (Tiwary, 17.2 ov), 6-156 (Shukla, 19.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SB Jakati | 4 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 6.50 | |||
| BW Hilfenhaus | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 8.66 | |||
| R Ashwin | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 6.50 | |||
| SK Raina | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 | |||
| RA Jadeja | 4 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 9.75 | |||
| DJ Bravo | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 | (1w) |
| Chennai Super Kings innings (target: 159 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| MEK Hussey | c Bhatia b Narine | 56 | 39 | 4 | 4 | 143.58 | ||
| M Vijay | b Narine | 36 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 144.00 | ||
| SK Raina | run out (Bhatia) | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | ||
| F du Plessis | c Tiwary b Bhatia | 13 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 81.25 | ||
| MS Dhoni*† | b Bhatia | 28 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 133.33 | ||
| DJ Bravo | not out | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 157.14 | ||
| RA Jadeja | not out | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 150.00 | ||
| Extras | (lb 4, w 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 160 | (8.00 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat S Anirudha, R Ashwin, BW Hilfenhaus, SB Jakati |
| Fall of wickets 1-97 (Hussey, 10.2 ov), 2-97 (Vijay, 10.4 ov), 3-110 (Raina, 13.2 ov), 4-127 (du Plessis, 17.1 ov), 5-151 (Dhoni, 19.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| M de Lange | 3 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 12.33 | |||
| L Balaji | 4 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 8.25 | (1w) | ||
| SP Narine | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 3.50 | |||
| JH Kallis | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8.33 | |||
| R Bhatia | 4 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 8.25 | |||
| YK Pathan | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7.00 |
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