The Mumbai Indians won their second Indian Premier League title with a thumping 41-run win over the Chennai Super Kings at Eden Gardens this evening.
Top-seed Chennai won the toss and put Mumbai into bat, a decision that appeared to be a good one when Faf du Plessis ran out Parthiv Patel for a duck in the opening over.
However, a partnership of 119 from Lendl Simmons (68) and Rohit Sharma (50) put the Indians back in control.
The duo fell on back-to-back deliveries to give Chennai hope of restricting Mumbai's total, but Kieron Pollard and Ambati Rayudu both scored quickfire 36s in a 71 partnership to help the Indians to 202-5 from their 20 overs.
In response, Chennai lost danger-man Michael Hussey for just four runs after a slow start and didn't look like chasing down the total.
Dwayne Smith led from the front with 57, but none of his teammates joined him in posting a big score as the Super Kings fell 41 runs short of their target on 161-8.
With victory, Mumbai join Chennai and the Kolkata Knight Riders as the only teams to win the IPL twice.
Pascal Lemesre
