IPL 2018: Man of the Match performances across a decade of IPL finals

#5 Kieron Pollard (2013)

Pollard was the first overseas player to achieve this feat

Chennai’s pattern of featuring in the IPL finals continued in the 2013 edition as well and this time they faced Mumbai Indians in the championship clash. Winning the toss, Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma’s decision to bat first failed miserably as they were reeling at 16-3. After 9.3 overs and the scoreboard reading 52-4, Windies mega star Kieron Pollard came out to bat.

Of the remaining 63 balls in the innings, Pollard faced 32, scoring boundaries off 10 of them- 7 fours and 3 sixes. Two of those hits into the stands came off the last two balls of the innings as Mumbai set Chennai 149 to win.

If Mumbai’s start with the bat was bad, Chennai’s went beyond the superlative. At 3-3 in the first 10 balls, CSK needed something special to stop the Mumbai bandwagon. 'Captain Cool' Dhoni was fighting a lone battle as he saw his partners fall at the other end.

Ashwin, who showed some resistance and hung in with his skipper was dismissed by Pollards’ medium pace bowling as Mumbai beat Chennai by 23 runs and win their maiden IPL title.