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The home side were put into bat by Kings skipper Yuvraj Singh and recovered from the loss of two early wickets to make 181-4 from their 20 overs.

Sree Sreesanth reduced Chennai to 20-2, but skipper Mahendra Dhoni (60 from 43 balls) and Subramaniam Badrinath (64 from 47 balls) led the recovery.

Australian Shaun Marsh got the visitors off to a fine start in reply, but when he was removed for 58 from 38 balls by Balaji, the Kings hopes went with him.

Balaji, out for almost two years with a stress fracture of the back, then returned to finish off the visitors in the final over with the wickets of Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla and Vikram Singh.