2014 Indian Premier League final

Kolkata Knight Riders chased the total successfully with three balls to spare losing seven wickets in the process and secured their second IPL trophy.

[5] Most of the wins were from their batting strength with Glenn Maxwell taking the main role and actively supported by Virender Sehwag and David Miller.

Their bowlers also played a crucial role with Sandeep Sharma being their best pick for wickets and was ably supported by Axar Patel and Mitchell Johnson.

On a green track with plenty of cracks, Gambhir's decision to bowl first was backed by their bowlers with Morne Morkel tormenting Kings top-order with his 145-plus kmph deliveries and also got Maxwell with a leg-stump yorker.

Later, Piyush Chawla bamboozled Sehwag and benefited from long-boundaries by getting Miller and George Bailey and this helped restrict Kings XI to modest total of 132/9 in 20 overs.

With Chris Lynn failing to recreate his first-match form and Yusuf Pathan still struggling in the season, they suffered a collapse with Patel and Rishi Dhawan keeping it tight for Kings XI.

[10] However, in the second group match, fortunes were reversed with Kolkata batsmen playing the aggressive role and completing the chase with nine wickets to spare, mostly thanks to third consecutive fifty from their captain, Gambhir.

Chawla was Knight Riders' pick among bowlers returning with 3/19 in four overs which includes big wickets of Sehwag and Maxwell and Narine choked the run flow at the end.

With the forecast of rain during the match and Duckworth-Lewis always tending to favor chasing teams, Kings XI won the toss and elected to field.

With Wriddhiman Saha and Miller flailed at the crease and spinners continued to strangle Kings XI batting in the middle overs which sealed the match for Knight Riders.

[16] Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Kings XI Punjab by 3 wickets to win the 2014 Indian Premier League in a high intensity final match, which was played in flawless spirit between the top two teams.

The defining knock of Manish Pandey ensured Knight Riders' victory and helped them lift their second Indian Premier League trophy in three years.

The Kings XI start was not encouraging with Virender Sehwag falling to the extra pace of Umesh Yadav and the promotion of George Bailey to No.3 lasting just two balls.

Though they suffered a mini-collapse with Singh removing Pandey, Pathan and Ryan ten Doeschate and Shakib Al Hasan losing his wicket to some incredible fielding from Bailey, Chawla held his nerve to thwart the spirited Kings XI campaign by pulling a six off Johnson in last ball of the penultimate over and finally scoring the winning boundary in the third ball of the last over; thus driving the Knights to their second title.