The 2012 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 5 or the IPL 2012 or the DLF IPL 2012 (owing to title sponsorship reasons), was the 5th season of the Indian Premier League, initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007 with the first season played in 2008. The tournament began on 4 April and ended on 27 May 2012. Kolkata Knight Riders were the winning team, beating defending champions Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in the final.
In the 5th season of IPL total 9 teams were played as in the previous season there were 10 teams and the 2012 IPL team names are as follows:
IPL 2012 Season 5 Teams Name
- Delhi Daredevils
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Mumbai Indians
- Chennai Super Kings
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Kings XI Punjab
- Rajasthan Royals
- Deccan Chargers
- Pune Warriors India
As I said KKR defeated the CSK the defending champion by 5 wickets and the detail score and other important facts are mentioned below.
IPL 2012 Season 5 Kolkata Knight Riders Winning Moment Picture / Image / Photo
IPL 2012 Season 5 Final Match ScoreBoard
| Chennai Super Kings innings (20 overs maximum) | |||||||
| Player | Out | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| MEK Hussey | b Kallis | 54 | 43 | 4 | 2 | 125.6 | |
| M Vijay | c Shakib Al Hasan b Bhatia | 42 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 131.3 | |
| SK Raina | c Lee b Shakib Al Hasan | 73 | 38 | 3 | 5 | 192.1 | |
| MS Dhoni*† | not out | 14 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 155.6 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 2, nb 2) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets; 20 overs) | 190 | (9.50 runs per over) | ||||
Did not bat: DJ Bravo, RA Jadeja, JA Morkel, R Ashwin, BW Hilfenhaus, SB Jakati, S Badrinath
Fall of wickets: 1-87 (Vijay, 10.2 ov), 2-160 (Hussey, 17.1 ov), 3-190 (Raina, 19.6 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| B Lee | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 3 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| SP Narine | 4 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Iqbal Abdulla | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| JH Kallis | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| R Bhatia | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| YK Pathan | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders innings (target: 191 runs from 20 overs) | ||||||
| Player | Out | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| MS Bisla† | c Badrinath b Morkel | 89 | 48 | 8 | 5 | 185.4 |
| G Gambhir* | b Hilfenhaus | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| JH Kallis | c Jadeja b Hilfenhaus | 69 | 49 | 7 | 1 | 140.8 |
| LR Shukla | c Hussey b Bravo | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| YK Pathan | c Badrinath b Ashwin | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | not out | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 157.1 |
| MK Tiwary | not out | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 300 |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 6, nb 1) | 8 | ||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 19.4 overs) | 192 | (9.76 runs per over) | |||
Did not bat: R Bhatia, Iqbal Abdulla, SP Narine, B Lee
Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Gambhir, 0.6 ov), 2-139 (Bisla, 14.4 ov), 3-152 (Shukla, 16.2 ov), 4-164 (Pathan, 17.1 ov), 5-175 (Kallis, 18.5 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| BW Hilfenhaus | 4 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| JA Morkel | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| R Ashwin | 4 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| DJ Bravo | 3.4 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| SB Jakati | 4 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
IPL 2012 Season 5 Important & Unknow Facts of Match
Toss – Chennai Super Kings, who chose to bat
Series – Kolkata Knight Riders won the 2012 Indian Premier League
Player of the match – MS Bisla (Kolkata Knight Riders)
Player of the series – SP Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders)
Umpires – BF Bowden (New Zealand) and SJA Taufel (Australia)
TV umpire – BR Doctrove (West Indies)
Match referee – RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire – K Srinivasan
If you want to see the IPL winner list of all seasons can read my recently publish artilce “IPL Winners List of All Year” or see IPL Winner Year or sesaon wise by clicking on below mentioned links:
IPL 2008 Season 1 Winner
IPL 2009 Season 2 Winner
IPL 2010 Season 3 Winner
IPL 2011 Season 4 Winner
IPL 2012 Season 5 Winner
IPL 2013 Season 6 Winner
IPL 2014 Season 7 Winner
IPL 2015 Season 8 Winner
IPL 2016 Season 9 Winner
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