2013: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Having faced each other in 2010, these two teams met again at the Eden Gardens for yet another final which featured CSK. Albie Morkel cleaned up Smith in the first over itself, and Aditya Tare and Rohit Sharma departed in quick succession, leaving the Mumbai Indians reeling at 16-3.
Karthik couldn’t last long too, and at 52-4, Mumbai were in dire need of a partnership. In came Rayudu and Pollard. They took Mumbai past 100 in the fifteenth over, and even though Rayudu departed for 37, Pollard motored along to take Mumbai to 148 with an unbeaten 60.
Malinga lived up to his reputation by cleaning up Hussey off only the third ball. Raina followed him back as well, and Johnson saw the back of Badrinath. Bravo hit a few lusty blows but couldn’t hang around, and Jadeja fell for a poor shot. At 36, half the side was back in the hut.
It became 39-6 when Murali Vijay was dismissed, and Morkel was undone by Pragyan Ojha to make it 57-7 by the 11th over.
Dhoni was not willing to throw his bat away easily, and smashed as many as five sixes in his unbeaten 63, but it was too late for CSK.
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