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The Preview by Karthik Krishnaswamy
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Chennai Super Kings: beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by two wickets, beat Kings XI Punjab by five wickets, lost to Delhi Daredevils by 34 runs

Sunrisers Hyderabad: beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 14 runs, lost to Chennai Super Kings by two wickets, lost to Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets

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The head offices of India Cements and Sun TV are located 300m from each other, either side of Greenways Road in South Chennai. Roughly four-and-a-half kilometers from Greenways Road is Boat Club Road, which houses some of the city's most expensive real estate, including the residences of N Srinivasan, the India Cements managing director, and Kalanithi Maran, the chairman of Sun TV.

On Sunday, their teams, Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, will contest the IPL final in Mumbai. Regardless of who wins, the trophy will find its way to Chennai - a typically IPL end to a season of 60 matches of which only one was played in Chennai.

It will also represent a closing of the circle for CSK and, by extension, the IPL itself. After two years out of the tournament - for serious breaches that, in the words of Justice RM Lodha, brought disrepute to cricket - the IPL's most consistent team isn't just back but back where it always was.

This isn't just CSK's seventh final in nine seasons; it's a final that will feature a whole host of familiar CSK faces. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have appeared in all six of their finals so far, Dwayne Bravo in four, and Ravindra Jadeja in three. They have, however, tasted plenty of defeat: CSK have only won two of their six finals so far.