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Mumbai Indians snatched a five-wicket victory, from the jaws of what looked like a certain defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders, in the final league match of the IPL-IV at the Eden Gardens on Sunday to ensure defending champion Chennai Super Kings the second spot.

The win lifted MI to third spot with 18 points, relegating the home side (16 points) to fourth. In the play-offs, CSK will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore and the winner will go through to the final. The loser of that game will take on the winner of MI and KKR in the second eliminator.

Everything went as per the script for KKR till the 19th over. With MI needing 21 runs off the final over bowled by L. Balaji, James Franklin smashed the first four balls for fours and took a single off the fifth ball, thus giving the strike to Ambati Rayudu. Balaji's full toss was dispatched beyond backward square-leg boundary to give MI a famous victory. MI ended the game at 178 for five chasing 175 for seven scored by KKR.

Franklin was adjudged the Man of the Match.

The Mumbai outfit made two great moves, sending in Harbhajan Singh (30, 29b) as a pinch hitter and held back Rayudu to come and finish off the game. Sachin Tendulkar held together the top order with a 38 (27b) 38.

Put in, KKR began disastrously, losing its first wicket — that of pint-sized Shreevats Goswami — cheaply to a bad mix up.

A bigger shock awaited the home side when its captain Guatam Gambhir departed.

Manoj Tiwary joined Jacques Kallis and the two played sensibly. The two added 45 runs for the third wicket in 5.3 overs. Yusuf Pathan, coming in next, took over the scoring.

A late order charge by Ryan ten Doeschate (18) and Rajat Bhatia (11) made sure KKR ended at a healthy score.

Scorecard

Kolkata Knight Riders: J. Kallis c Suman b Franklin 59 (42b, 4x4, 3x6), S. Goswami (run out) 1 (3b), G. Gambhir b Ahmed 8 (7b, 1x6), M. Tiwary (run out) 35 (22b, 5x4, 1x6), Yusuf Pathan c Ahmed b Franklin 36 (27b, 4x4, 1x6), R. ten Doeschate lbw b Ahmed 18 (12b, 1x4, 1x6), R. Bhatia (run out) 11 (6b, 2x4), S. Al Hasan (not out) 1 (1b); Extras (b-1, lb-2, w-3): 6; Total (for seven wkts. in 20 overs): 175.

Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-22, 3-67, 4-124, 5-149, 6-166, 7-175.

Mumbai Indians bowling: Ahmed 4-0-32-2, Malinga 4-0-23-0, Harbhajan 3-0-26-0, Price 3-0-33-0, Pollard 2-0-23-0, Franklin 4-0-35-2.

Mumbai Indians: T. Suman c Pathan b Abdulla 4 (4b, 1x4), S. Tendulkar c Gambhir b Bhatia 38 (27b, 6x4), Harbhajan Singh c Tiwary b Bhatia 30 (29b, 5x4), Rohit Sharma c Goswami b Bhatia 10 (9b, 1x4), K. Pollard b Balaji 18 (22b, 2x4), J. Franklin (not out) 45 (23b, 5x4, 1x6), A. Rayudu (not out) 17 (6b, 2x6); Extras (lb-9, w-7): 16; Total (for five wkts. in 20 overs): 178.

BANGALORE: Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.

# Bangalore's eight-wicket triumph is their largest over Chennai in the IPL, surpassing the six-wicket win at Johannesburg on May 23, 2009.

# Bangalore's victory is their 30th in the IPL (Lost 29 out of 59 played) - success % 50.84.

# As they have finished top of the points table, Royal Challengers Bangalore have qualified for the Champions League.

# Royal Challengers Bangalore have recorded their fifth win in nine matches against Chennai Super Kings in the IPL.

# Chris Gayle's brilliant unbeaten 75 off 50 balls is his second fifty in the IPL 4. He has recorded two centuries as well.

# Gayle has aggregated 355 (ave.88.75) in seven innings - the highest so far while chasing in the fourth edition of the IPL.

# Gayle, in the course of his match-winning knock, has completed his 2,000 runs in Twenty20, amassing 2050 at an average of 36.60 in 65 matches.

# Gayle took his tally of sixes to 38 - the most by a batsman in the IPL 2011, extending his record for most sixes in an IPL tournament.

# Gayle has been adjudged MOM five times in nine matches in the IPL 4, equalling Shaun Marsh's feat in 2008.

# Gayle (974 at an average of 46.38, including two hundreds and four fifties) needs 26 runs to complete 1000 runs in the IPL overall.

# Gayle, with 511 runs at an average of 85.16 in nine innings, is the leading run-getter in the IPL 2011, overtakaing Shaun Marsh's tally of 504 in fourteen matches at an average of 42.00.

# Gayle's outstanding average of 85.16 is the best by a batsman in the IPL 4. Also his superb strike rate of 187.17 is the highest in the present competition.

# The top three wicket-takers for Bangalore in the IPL 2011 are S.Aravind (16), Zaheer Khan (11) and Daniel Vettori (9).

# Five batsmen have amassed 300 or more for Chennai in the IPL 4 - Michael Hussey (429), Subramaniam Badrinath (362), Suresh Raina (357), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (341) and Murali Vijay (334).

# Dhoni's overall average of 40.41 is quite impressive -1374 runs, including eight fifties, in 57 matches. Sachin Tendulkar (40.22 in 48 matches) has the next best average in the IPL.

# In the course of his highest ever IPL innings, Dhoni has completed 2000 runs in Twenty20, aggregating 2039 at an average of 37.07, including nine fifties, in 93 matches.

# Dhoni (70 not out off 40 balls) posted his highest knock in the IPL, surpassing the 66 not out off 33 balls against Kolkata at Kolkata on March 16, 2010.

# Dhoni, for the first time, has recorded six sixes during his brilliant knock, taking his tally to 20 - the most by a Chennai batsman in the IPL 2011.

# Dhoni has effected nine dismissals in 14 matches in the IPL 2011. His tally of five stumpings is the most by a wicketkeeper in the IPL 2011.

Kings XI Punjab: Every team in IPL T20-2011 looks pretty balanced and their will be a good fight between every team to win this IPL 2011. This is the fourth session of IPL and every team has a new unit, as two new teams have joined this 2011 IPL session therefore this session has become even longer and difficult for a team to win.

The Kings XI Punjab were always a good team but were not able to show there talent in all these IPL sessions. The co-owner of this franchise of Kings XI Punjab was Preity Zinta. This IPL session of 2011 for Kings XI Punjab has almost all new players and this time the captain of Kings XI Punjab will be Adam Gilchrist and the team squad for Kings XI Punjab will be Adam Gilchrist, Love Ablish, Stuart Broad, Piyush Chawla, Siddharth Chitnis, Ryan Harris, David Hussey, Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar, Vikramjeet Malik, Shaun Marsh, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Abhishek Nayar, Nathan Rimmington, Nitin Saini, Shalabh Srivastava