Chennai Super Kings won the final league match against Punjab by 24 runs in a low scoring match. With this loss the road for semi-finals for the Punjab team is almost end here. So it's going to be some serious games with out the celebrity owners and their teams in the semi-finals

1. Chennai Super Kings V Kings XI Punjab IPL 54th match

2. VENUE Kingsmead, Durban South Africa

3. UMPIRES SJA Taufel (Australia) & B Jerling (SA) Third Umpire: S Hazare (IND) Match Referee: D Govindjee (SA)

5. TEAMS Muttiah Muralitharan Lakshmipathy Balaji Thilan Thushara R Ashwin Manpreet Gony Jacob Oram MS Dhoni (c)(wk) S Badrinath Suresh Raina Parthiv Patel George Bailey IPL CHENNAI TEAM S Sreesanth Ramesh Powar Piyush Chawla Brett Lee Irfan Pathan Wilkin Mota K Sangakkara (wk) Yuvraj Singh (c) Luke Pomersbach Simon Katich Sunny Sohal IPL KXI TEAM

6. Total: 116 / 9 in 20.0 overs (Run Rate: 5.80) Extras: ( 2 wd, 2 lb, 3 b, 0 nb, 0 p) 100.00 0 0 1 1 not out Muttiah Muralitharan 33.33 0 0 6 2 not out Lakshmipathy Balaji 20.00 0 0 5 1 run out (S Katich/ K Sangakkara) Thilan Thushara 53.33 0 1 15 8 c L Pomersbach b Pathan R Ashwin 140.00 1 0 5 7 b Chawla Manpreet Gony 80.95 0 1 21 17 c and b Pathan Jacob Oram 100.00 0 0 2 2 b Sreesanth MS Dhoni (c)(wk) 44.44 0 0 9 4 c I Pathan b Sreesanth S Badrinath 95.24 0 2 21 20 c B Leev b Mota Suresh Raina 139.13 1 4 23 32 b Powar Parthiv Patel 125.00 0 3 12 15 run out (Y Singh) George Bailey SR Sixes Fours Balls Runs IPL Chennai innings

7. 4.00 0 0 1 8 0 2.0 Wilkin Mota 6.50 0 0 1 13 0 3.0 Piyush Chawla 5.75 1 0 2 23 0 4.0 S Sreesanth 4.75 0 0 1 19 0 4.0 Ramesh Powar 8.00 1 0 2 32 0 4.0 Irfan Pathan 4.00 0 0 0 16 0 3.0 Brett Lee Eco Wide NoBall Wickets Runs M Overs Bowler

8. CHENNAI set a target of 117 runs to win against PUNJAB

9. Total: 92 / 8 in 20.0 overs (Run Rate: 4.60) Extras: ( 3 wd, 3 lb, 0 b, 0 nb, 0 p) S Sreesanth 140.00 0 1 5 7 not out Ramesh Powar 133.33 0 0 3 4 not out Piyush Chawla 85.71 0 1 7 6 c J Oram b Raina Brett Lee 116.67 0 1 12 14 c J Oram b Thushara Irfan Pathan 50.00 0 0 10 5 lbw b Ashwin Wilkin Mota 77.78 0 0 9 7 c and b Ashwin K Sangakkara (wk) 31.58 0 0 19 6 b Raina Yuvraj Singh (c) 81.25 1 1 32 26 c S Raina b Muralitharan Luke Pomersbach 61.54 0 1 13 8 b Muralitharan Simon Katich 33.33 0 0 9 3 c P Patel b Thushara Sunny Sohal SR Sixes Fours Balls Runs IPL Punjab innings

10. 7.00 0 0 0 14 0 2.0 Lakshmipathy Balaji 4.25 1 0 2 17 0 4.0 Suresh Raina 3.25 0 0 2 13 0 4.0 R Ashwin 2.00 0 0 2 8 0 4.0 Muttiah Muralitharan 7.00 2 0 2 28 0 4.0 Thilan Thushara 4.50 0 0 0 9 0 2.0 Manpreet Gony Eco Wide NoBall Wickets Runs M Overs Bowler

12. MAN OF THE MATCH Muttiah Muralitharan