It was the final of the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League at Bangalore on Sunday. Kings XI Punjab captain George Bailey (L) and Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir (R) pose with the IPL trophy ahead of the final match. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir won the all important toss and invited the George Bailey-led KXIP to bat first. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
KKR bowlers backed their captain's decision to bowl first as Umesh Yadav got the important scalp of Virender Sehwag, the centurion from the last match, in the fourth over of the KXIP innings. Sehwag scored a 10-ball seven. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Find of this IPL, Manan Vohra was again at his best and took the attack to KKR bowlers. Vohra smashed a 52-ball 67 before being out caught and bowled by Piyush Chawla. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Wriddhiman Saha could not have wished for a better platform to score runs and he did just that scoring the third hundred of this IPL. Saha blasted a 55-ball 115 to bring his team out of trouble after two initial wickets. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
The most economical bowler of the IPL 7 was taken to all corners of the park by KXIP batsmen. Sunil Narine returned with figures of 1/46 from his four overs. He even dropped the catch of Saha. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Manan Vohra was in supreme touch with the bat and marked his 67-run innings with six classic boundaries and two magnificent sixes. He also shared a 125-run partnership with Wriddhiman Saha from just 72 nballs. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
With both Glenn Maxwell and David Miller not scoring a single run in the final, KXIP still reached a competitive total of 199/6, thanks to the unbeaten century by Wriddhiman Saha. He also became he first player to score a IPL century in the final. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Chasing a mammoth 200 to win, KKR got off to a disastrous start as Mitchell Johnson had Robin Uthappa caught at point by Akshar Patel in the very first over. Uthappa had eight consecutive scores of 40-plus in IPL but failed to repeat his earlier innings and was out after scoring just five runs of three balls. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Captain Gautam Gambhir stood up to the big occasion and scored a sensible 23 off 17 to help KKR steady their innings. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Manish Pandey, who had a quiet IPL till the final, played a crunch innings in the final and shared a 53-run partnership of 33 balls with Gautam Gambhir to set-up the chase. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
George Bailey and Virender Sehwag discuss tactics as their bowlers were getting a pounding from the KKR batsmen after the early wicket of Robin Uthappa. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Manish Pandey overshadowed Wriddhiman Saha's century with a 94-run innings of just 50 balls and brought KKR back into the game. Pandey was dealing in boundaries and touched the ropes seven times and sent the ball over it six times. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Yusuf Pathan, fastest to reach IPL fifty of 15 balls, was again in a murderous mood and launched an onslaught from the word go. Pathan scored 36 runs from 22 balls with four massive sixes in the innings and with Manish Pandey had a 72-run partnership off just 44 balls.
Akshar Patel celebrates the wicket of Shakib-al-Hasan who was run-out by George Bailey. Bailey's direct-hit turned the match in KXIP's favour but KKR's Manish Pandey was still out there in the middle and was taking his team towads victory. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
After two quick wickets, there was anothe rtwist in the tale for KKR but Manish Pandey made sure that the required rate does not cross te runs per over. Pandey smashed leg-spinner Karanveer Singh for two sixes in single over but Singh also dismissed Ryan ten Doeschate and Pandey in the same over to give KXIP more than a outside chance of winning. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Piyush Chawla, with Sunil Narine, had the task in hand to take their team home. With 11 needed of seven balls, Piyush Chawla pulled Mitchell Johnson over fine-leg for an all important six and turned the match on its head. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Needing four runs of four balls, Piyush Chawla, sliced a Parvinder Awana ball to the boundary to win the final by three wickets. KKR won their second title in three years and the players were jubilant after the win. Given there form in the UAE leg, no one expected KKR to reach the play-offs but in the India-leg saw them win nine matches on the trot including the final. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
KKR players and staff with the IPL trophy after their win over KXIP by three wickets in the final in Bangalore on Sunday. This KKR's second title in three years. KKR started on a disastrous note losing three out of the first five but the fortunes took a turn after IPL returned to India. KKR's Robin Uthappa was awarded the orange cap and Manish Pandey waqs the man-of-the-match in the final. (Source: PTI)
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