Chennai Super Kings Squad for IPL 2015
MS Dhoni, Ashish Nehra, Baba Aparajith, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ishwar Pandey, Matt Henry, Mithun Manhas, Mohit Sharma, Pawan Negi, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Samuel Badree, Suresh Raina, Ronit More, Michael Hussey, Rahul Sharma, Kyle Abbott, Irfan Pathan, Pratyush Singh, Ankush Bains, Eklavya Dwivedi, Andrew Tye

Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad for IPL 2015

Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chama Milind, Dale Steyn, David Warner, Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, KL Rahul, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Parveez Rasool, Ricky Bhui, Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan, Kane Williamson, Ravi Bopara, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Praveen Kumar, Trent Boult, Hanuma Vihari, Prasanth Padmanabhan, Siddarth Kaul

Following are the players who will be seen in action in IPL season 8

Chennai Super Kings – MS Dhoni, Ashish Nehra, Baba Aparajith, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ishwar Pandey, Matt Henry, Mithun Manhas, Mohit Sharma, Pawan Negi, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Samuel Badree, Suresh Raina, Ronit More.
Purchased in Auctions – Michael Hussey, Rahul Sharma, Kyle Abbott, Irfan Pathan, Pratyush Singh, Ankush Bains, Eklavya Dwivedi, Andrew Tye

Delhi Daredevils
Jean-Paul Duminy, Kedar Jadhav, Manoj Tiwary, Mohammed Shami, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Quinton De Kock, Saurabh Tiwary, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Imran Tahir, Jayant Yadav.
Purchased in Auctions – Angelo Mathews, Yuvraj Singh, Amit Mishra, Jaydev Unadkat, Gurinder Sandhu, Shreyas Iyer, CM Gautam, Dominic Muthuswamy, Albie Morkel, Travis Head, Marcus Stoinis, Kona Srikar Bharat, KK Jiyaz, Zaheer Khan

Kings XI Punjab
Axar Patel, Anureet Singh, Beuran Hendricks, David Miller, George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Karanveer Singh, Manan Vora, Mitchell Johnson, Parvinder Awana, Rishi Dhawan, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Shaun Marsh, Shivam Sharma, Thisara Perera, Virender Sehwag, Wriddhiman Saha
Purchased in Auctions – Murali Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Yogesh Golwalkar

Kolkata Knight Riders
Gautam Gambhir, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Morne Morkel, Patrick Cummins, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Veer Pratap Singh, Yusuf Pathan
Purchased in Auctions – James Neesham, Brad Hogg, Aditya Garhwal, Sumit Narwal, KC Cariappa, Vaibhav Rawal, Sheldon Jackson.

Mumbai Indians
>Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Ambati Rayudu, Corey Anderson, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood, Keiron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Marchant de Lange, Pawan Suyal, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Unmukt Chand, R Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel
Purchased in Auctions – Aaron Finch, Pragyan Ojha, Mitchell McClenaghan, Akshay Wakhare, Aiden Blizzard, Hardik Pandya, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Nitish Rana, Abhimanyu Mithun

Rajasthan Royals
Shane Watson, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ankit Nagendra Sharma, Ben Cutting, Deepak Hooda, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dishant Yagnik, James Faulkner, Kane Richardson, Karun Nair, Pravin Tambe, Rahul Tewatia, Rajat Bhatia, Sanju Samson, Steven Smith, Stuart Binny, Tim Southee, Vikramjeet Malik
Purchased in Auctions – Chris Morris, Juan Theron, Barinder Singh Saran, Dinesh Salunkhe, Sagar Trivedi, Pardeep Sahu

Royal Challengers Bangalore
>Virat Kohli, AB de Villers, Chris Gayle, Mitchell Starc, Nic Maddinson, Varun Aaron, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rilee Rossouw, Vijay Zol, Yogesh Takawale, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Ashoke Dinda, Sandeep Warrier, Manvinder Bisla, Iqbal Abdullah
Purchased in Auctions – Dinesh Karthik, Subramaniam Badrinath, Darren Sammy, Sean Abbott, Adam Milne, David Wiese, Jalaj Saxena, Sarfaraz Naushad Khan, Shishir Bhavane

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chama Milind, Dale Steyn, David Warner, Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, KL Rahul, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Parveez Rasool, Ricky Bhui
Purchased in Auctions – Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan, Kane Williamson, Ravi Bopara, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Praveen Kumar, Trent Boult, Hanuma Vihari, Prasanth Padmanabhan, Siddarth Kaul.

IPL 2014 – Final – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Sunday, June 1, 2014
Time – 20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
Venue – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 3 wickets
Man of the match – Manish Pandey

In a high scoring thriller today, the 2012 champions Kolkata Knight Riders beat Kings XI Punjab by three wickets to win the IPL 2014 season, thanks to the superb batting performance by Manish Pandey and valuable support from other players.

Chasing 200 to win, Kolkata lost their highest run scorer Robin Uthappa in the very first over when the team score was just 6. Captain Gambhir and Manish Pandey revived Kolkata’s innings and scored at the required 10 runs per over to continue KKR’s hunt for the title. In the 7th over, Karanveer got the priced wicket of Gambhir to give some hope to Punjab but the next batsmen in, Yusuf Pathan continued where Gambhir left. He along with Pandey took the match away from Punjab. Pandey played a stunning innings of 94 in 50 balls where as Pathan scored 36 off 22 balls. Just when it looked that Kolkata will win the match easily, Karanveer striked and got quick wickets to reduce KKR to 176/6 in 17 overs. Needing 11 to win from 2 overs, Piyush Chawla hit a six on the last ball of 19th over to bring the match in KKR’s hand. They needed 5 to win off the last over and Chawla hit a four to take his team to a 3 wicket win over Punjab.

Earlier Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field first. Kings XI Punjab openers added 23 runs for the first wicket stand after which Sehwag got out. Captain Bailey also fell cheaply and Punjab were struggling at 30/2 in 5.1 overs. At the end of power play, Kings XI Punjab were at 32/2 which was their lowest powerplay total in this IPL. Manan Vohra and Wriddhiman Saha then slowly started to build Punjab’s innings. Punjab were 92/2 in 13 overs and after this, both Saha and Vohra pressed the accelerator. Saha and VOhra started to hammer every bowler and was particularly severe to Naraine. The duo added 67 runs in next 4 overs. Vohra got out after scoring a brilliant 52 ball 67 where as Saha continued the blast and scored 115 in 55 balls (10 fours, 8 sixes) to help Kings XI Punjab post 199/4 in 20 overs.

IPL 2014 – Final – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

IPL 2014 – Final – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Sunday, June 1, 2014
Time – 20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
Venue – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Today the most entertaining form of cricket will conclude with the final being played between two of the best IPL teams in this season. Kings XI Punjab who have been phenomenal from the first match will take on resurgent Kolkata Knight Riders. The 2012 winners, KKR will be high on confidence as they had recently beaten Punjab in the qualifiers to move to the IPL final. Kolkata Knight Riders will be hoping that they repeat their performance against KXIP and win the IPL champions title again.

On the other hand, Kings XI Punjab are coming into this match by beating Chennai Super Kings in an exciting match in the second qualifier played on May 30. KXIP will be hoping to win their first IPL title since its inception as they have qualified for the finals for the very first time since 2008. With the likes of Sehwag, Miller, Bailey, Maxwell, KXIP has a formidable batting line up and no total looks unachievable when they get going. Kolkata will be relying on their spinners to halt the run machines of KXIP. So essentially today’s match will be contest between Punjab batsmen vs Kolkata bowlers.

Players to watch out for
Kings XI Punjab
Batsmen: Virender Sehwag, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller and George Bailey
Bowlers: Rishi Dhawan and Sandeep Sharma

Kolkata Knight Riders
Batsmen: Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan and Robin Uthappa
Bowlers: Sunil Narine and Piyush Chawla

Kings XI Punjab Team For IPL 2014
George Bailey (captain), Anureet Singh,Parvinder Awana, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rishi Dhawan, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Beuran Hendricks, Mitchell Johnson, Karanveer Singh, Murali Kartik, Mandeep Singh, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Akshar Patel, Thisara Perera, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, Sandeep Sharma, Virender Sehwag, Shivam Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Manan Vohra.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team For IPL 2014
Gautam Gambhir (captain), Manvinder Bisla (wk), Piyush Chawla, Pat Cummins, Debabrata Das, Jacques Kallis, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Sayan Mondal, Morne Morkel, Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Veer Pratap Singh, Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Robin Uthappa (wk), Vinay Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav

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