Bangalore secured the third spot available in the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 tournament from the IPL by trouncing Hyderabad by nine-wickets in their third-place play-off in Mumbai.
Rahul Dravid (35 not out) and Kevin Pietersen (29 not out) rattled off the runs required, needing only 13.5 overs to end a woefully one-sided contest.
Kumble led from the front as Bangalore turned in a superb performance with the ball on a pitch which offered turn and bounce.
Kumble began with the new ball and secured the wicket of Adam Gilchrist off the fourth delivery, the Hyderabad skipper pulling a low full toss straight to Kallis at fine leg.
Praveen, who shared the new ball, then struck with his first delivery, trapping other opener Monish Mishra in front and had wickets in consecutive overs when he snared Rohit Sharma for a four-ball duck.
Hyderabad lost their top three batsmen inside the first six overs and Steyn, who had grassed Andrew Symonds while on one, made amends when he had the batsman caught behind for two at the start of the seventh over.
Kumble, bowling one-over spells, then brought himself back on in the ninth and dismissed Dawyne Smith for five.
Anirudh Singh (40), who had come in at number three, looked in good touch and eventually found support in Venugopal Rao (24), the duo putting together the only partnership of substance, 43 for the sixth wicket.
Kallis, who finished with two wickets for three in two overs, broke that stand by snaring Anirudh in his first over and Surrey left-arm spinner Nayan Doshi collected his first IPL scalp when he removed Venugopal in the next over.
Kumble returned to add to two more wickets to his tally as Hyderabad succumbed to the lowest total in the tournament this year.
Kallis and Dravid put on 36 together before Hyderabad claimed their first success, but the Bangalore team were never under any sort of pressure.
Pietersen, in a belligerent mood, smashed two sixes and a four and added 50 in an undefeated stand as Bangalore ran out winners
Opting to bat first, the Super Kings looked in trouble before a 52-run partnership between skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (30) and S Badrinath (37) guided them to a competitive 142 for seven.
For the Chargers, Ryan Harris bowled a fine initial spell to get rid off openers Murali Vijay and Mathew Hayden cheaply and finished with excellent figures of three for 29.
The Super Kings, however, returned to defend the total with all their might and resource, skittling out their opponents for 104 in 19.2 overs and dashing Deccan Chargers' hopes of a successful title defence.
For Chennai, Bollinger (4-13) stood out, having rocked the Deccan top order and then dropping curtains on the opponent's innings with his tidy four overs.
Left-arm spinner Shadab Jakati also chipped in with two crucial wickets to hasten Deccan's fall.
Chasing a modest target, the Chargers were never in the game as they lost wickets at regular intervals and their listless batting could be gauged from the fact that AndrewSymonds top scored them with a 22-ball 23.
The Chargers will now return to the same DY Patil Stadium on Saturday where they take on Royal Challengers Bangalore for the third place playoff, which will decide which one of them would join Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in the Champions League Twenty20 later this year.
The Chargers' chase got off to a poor start and skipper Adam Gilchrist's (15) dismissal in the sixth over was not only the continuation of his personal bad patch but also a bad omen as the Chargers never got any partnership going.
Herschelle Gibbs (18), Symonds and B Sumanth (16) got the starts but could not capitalise on it.
Earlier, the Chargers bowlers stuck to their task brilliantly and even though there were spilled chances early on, managed to apply the brakes effectively to give their batsmen a golden chance to overhaul the modest Super Kings total.
Super Kings made a shock start by losing their top three batsmen, including in-form Suresh Raina, inside five overs with only 29 runs on board and never recovered.
The 52-run partnership between Mahendra Singh Dhoni (30), who struck three fours, and Badrinath, who was dismissed for 37 made in 41 balls, was the lone bright spot in an otherwise listless batting display.
For Chargers, Ryan Harris bowled a fine initial spell to get rid off openers Murali Vijay and Mathew Hayden cheaply and finished with excellent figures of three for 29.
The Super Kings' of a flying start after opting to bat first on a wicket offering lot of carry to the pace bowlers seemed to be on thin ice with Hayden living a charmed life.
The left-handed Australian opener was dropped twice but he failed to utilise his good fortune and was dismissed in the last ball of the second over.
Murali Vijay (15) followed suit after looking good for a big score when he took 13 runs in the third over from RP Singh, which included a superbly struck six over mid-wicket, before being trapped leg before by Harris with an in-dipper.
The loss of the two openers after the first ball of the fourth over looked bad and worse followed when Super Kings' batting lynchpin Raina departed for two, edging a drive off Symonds to rival skipper Adam Gilchrist to leave Chennai gasping at 29 for three.
It called for some cautious play mixed with aggression and Dhoni was the right man to do it with the steady, if unspectacular Badrinath, for company.
Dhoni and Badrinath put on 52 runs for the fourth wicket to give semblance of respectability to the Chennai innings with the team captain being the expected aggressor.
But the India captain fell just when he looked to be stepping up the pace, edging a leg break bowled wide by Harmeet Singh to fly-slip Rohit Sharma. Albie Morkel (4) flopped too and Badrinath slammed Symonds to the mid-wicket fence for a four to raise team 100 in the 16th over.
Badrinath was sixth out, stumped when he charged out to R P Singh and failed to connect properly with Gilchrist standing up to the stumps.
Anirudha used the long handle to make a 15-ball 24, that included two sixes, which enabled Super Kings add 46 runs in the last five overs.
Brief scores
Chennai Super Kings 142 for 7 (Badrinath 37, Harris 3-29)
Deccan Chargers 104 (Symonds 23, Bollinger 4-13)
Result Chennai Super Kings won by 38 runs
MOM Doug Bollinger (Chennai Super Kings)
20 overs Kings XI Punjab 174 for 3 (Jayawardene 93*, Sangakkara 52) v Deccan Chargers
The breathtaking hilly surroundings in Dharamsala were rendered invisible via a night game, but two of the most graceful batsmen going around gathered runs in a manner befitting the serene small town. Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara brought out their technical expertise to score fifties on a difficult pitch to take Kings XI Punjab to a strong total. The Deccan Chargers bowlers were back to type, going for 76 in the last five; Jayawardene got 57 off the last 18 balls he faced. Uncultured shots were conspicuous by absence.
It was a dry surface covered in grass from good-length area on one end to just back of a length on the other. Anything pitched in the grassy areas got extra bounce and seam movement. Even Mitchell Marsh, a military medium bowler, managed to trouble the batsmen. Ryan Harris used the conditions best, removing Shaun Marsh for a duck, with the extra bounce, and then not giving the Sri Lankan batsmen anything in the non-grassy zone.
Mitchell and RP, though, didn't manage to hit the right lengths consistently. RP let Sangakkara off with a half-volley in his first over, and followed up with two to Jayawardene in his second. In between, though, he got one to pitch at the edge of the grassy area, and it kicked up sharply towards the temple. It took all of Jayawardene's skills to drop his wrists and get his head out of the way. Sangakkara applauded at the other end. And then proceeded to show two classical drives, either side of the wicket, to pitched-up deliveries from Mitchell in the last over of the Powerplay, by which point Punjab had moved to 43, out of which Sangakkara had contributed 26 off 21.
Even as Jayawardene struggled to get the timing right in the middle overs, Sangakkara kept playing the pretty strokes, getting 26 more off the next 15 balls he faced. Rahul Sharma, who had dropped Jayawardene when on 21 off 23, came to make good for it by removing Sangakkara with the second ball he bowled. Or so he thought. Next four overs went for just 12, with Yuvraj Singh and Jayawardene struggling with the extra bounce, but there was another think coming.
In the 16th over, Jayawardene, 36 off 44 then, smashed Rahul for a six and a four, the latter thanks to a misfield by Harris at extra cover. The 17th over, from RP, went for five back-to-back boundaries from Jayawardene. The fifth of the lot, a yorker, squeezed past short fine, was the only one off a good delivery.
In the 19th, even Harris bowled length and Jayawardene and Yuvraj took 18 runs off it, double of what he had gone for in the first three. Bravely Gilchrist invited RP to bowl the last over. The bowler duly brought up his fifty by going for 14 runs, and he had Yuvraj to thank for. The batsman holed out to long-off, and didn't cross over, an act that would have allowed Jayawardene to play the last delivery.
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