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| Chennai Super Kings romped to the Indian Premier League title with a 58-run win over Bangalore Royal Challengers. |
Bangalore were never in the hunt after Chris Gayle went in the first over, and subsided to 147 for eight.
Vijay and Hussey twice traded sixes before Hussey pulled the first four late in the eighth over.
Vijay hoisted Daniel Vettori beyond the long-on boundary and then had to settle for four when Luke Pomersbach got a hand to a ball on the mid-wicket rope but could not hold on. Vijay's fifty then came up from 29 balls.
Syed narrowly failed to cling on to a miraculous return catch from a drive by Vijay, who then twice heaved Aravind over mid-wicket for six. Hussey then brought up a 40-ball fifty with his third four, a delicious reverse sweep, to add to two sixes.
Another maximum followed as Syed was launched onto the roof and Vijay repeated the dose before Bangalore finally made the breakthrough.
Vijay survived a run-out appeal but the overthrow the batsmen added was to prove costly as Hussey went next ball, mis-hitting Syed to long-on.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni twice smashed Gayle for six, before two wickets fell in successive balls.
Vijay missed out on a century when he toe-ended Aravind straight to Vettori and Dhoni launched a full toss to Virat Kohli. Suresh Raina responded with a fierce flat six but Gayle produced two dot balls and two wickets before Dwayne Bravo hit the last ball for six.
Ravichandran Ashwin made short work of the key wicket in Bangalore's reply, Gayle edging to Dhoni for a three-ball duck after being surprised by a quicker straight ball.
Agarwal cracked two fours but chopped on in Ashwin's next over as Chennai turned the screw.
Doug Bollinger's first over went for 14, including three boundaries, and AB de Villiers then hit his third successive boundary off South Africa team-mate Albie Morkel.
His counter-attack was ended, though, when he danced around his crease but was pinned plumb in front by Shadab Jakati.
Kohli fetched Raina's first ball for six, just beyond the spectacular leap of Bravo, before Luke Pomersbach gave Jakati (two for 21) an easy return catch.
Raina pinned Kohli leg before and Vettori fell first ball, offering a return catch to the impressive Ashwin (three for 16) to leave the score on 70 for six.
Raina's next over contained three boundaries but Abhimanyu Mithun fell to Bravo to leave the Royal Challengers 92 for seven.
Tiwary and Zaheer put on a defiant 38 and Tiwary (42 not out) hit two sixes in the last over, but it was in vain.
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