Purple is the colour of the Indian Premier League and the Knights are the new Kings. There are a whole host of new heroes who made this possible: The unheralded Manvinder Singh Bisla, the legendary Jacques Kallis, Shakib Al Hasan, and Kolkata's own Manoj Tiwary.
Each of them played like they owned the stage as Shah Rukh Khan's Knights notched up an unbelievable win with three balls to spare.
Bisla didn't know till Saturday evening whether he would be playing the final. KKR took a big gamble by playing him ahead of Brendon McCullum and the Haryana batsman was an absolute revelation.
A chase of 191 is thought to be out of bounds when you are playing at the Chepauk against CSK, and when skipper Gautam Gambhir got out in the first over, it seemed Chennai were well on their way to making it a hat-trick of titles.
A chase of 191 is thought to be out of bounds when you are playing at the Chepauk against CSK, and when skipper Gautam Gambhir got out in the first over, it seemed Chennai were well on their way to making it a hat-trick of titles.
But Bisla came out of nowhere and started hitting every single bowler on view. Dhoni just hadn't prepared the blueprint for the guy.
ROLL OF HONOUR
Man of the Final: Manvinder Bisla, Kolkata Knight Riders.
Rising Star of the tournament: Mandeep Singh, Kings XI Punjab.
Golden Player of the season: Sunil Narine, Kolkata Knight Riders.
Fairplay Award: Rahul Dravid, Rajasthan Royals.
Orange Cap: Chris Gayle, Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Purple Cap: Morne Morkel, Delhi Daredevils.
Power performance of the season: AB de Villiers, Royal Challengers Bangalore.
FIVE STARS WHO WON IPL 5 FOR KKR
5-19: Mystery spinner Narine produced many outstanding spells, none so better than his 5-19 against Kings XI.
4-18: Laxmipathy Balaji showed he still has a few tricks up his sleeve, as he got the RCB batsmen flummoxed.
3-17: Shakib Al Hasan got both Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane, and RR were never a problem for KKR.
93: The KKR skipper was in terrific form throughout the tournament. Against RCB, he smashed 93 off 51 balls.
40*: Yusuf Pathan remained out of form throughout this IPL, but struck gold against the Devils in the 1st qualifier.
Each of them played like they owned the stage as Shah Rukh Khan's Knights notched up an unbelievable win with three balls to spare.
Bisla didn't know till Saturday evening whether he would be playing the final. KKR took a big gamble by playing him ahead of Brendon McCullum and the Haryana batsman was an absolute revelation.
A chase of 191 is thought to be out of bounds when you are playing at the Chepauk against CSK, and when skipper Gautam Gambhir got out in the first over, it seemed Chennai were well on their way to making it a hat-trick of titles.
A chase of 191 is thought to be out of bounds when you are playing at the Chepauk against CSK, and when skipper Gautam Gambhir got out in the first over, it seemed Chennai were well on their way to making it a hat-trick of titles.
But Bisla came out of nowhere and started hitting every single bowler on view. Dhoni just hadn't prepared the blueprint for the guy.
ROLL OF HONOUR
Man of the Final: Manvinder Bisla, Kolkata Knight Riders.
Rising Star of the tournament: Mandeep Singh, Kings XI Punjab.
Golden Player of the season: Sunil Narine, Kolkata Knight Riders.
Fairplay Award: Rahul Dravid, Rajasthan Royals.
Orange Cap: Chris Gayle, Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Purple Cap: Morne Morkel, Delhi Daredevils.
Power performance of the season: AB de Villiers, Royal Challengers Bangalore.
FIVE STARS WHO WON IPL 5 FOR KKR
5-19: Mystery spinner Narine produced many outstanding spells, none so better than his 5-19 against Kings XI.
4-18: Laxmipathy Balaji showed he still has a few tricks up his sleeve, as he got the RCB batsmen flummoxed.
3-17: Shakib Al Hasan got both Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane, and RR were never a problem for KKR.
93: The KKR skipper was in terrific form throughout the tournament. Against RCB, he smashed 93 off 51 balls.
40*: Yusuf Pathan remained out of form throughout this IPL, but struck gold against the Devils in the 1st qualifier.
