Mainish Pandey once again played a handful inning to take Royal Bangalore Challengers in the final of 2009 IPL, as they comfortably beat favorite Chennai Super Kings in the 2nd semi final on Saturday, May 23rd at Johannesburg.
Chennai put 61 runs for the 1st wicket by openers Parthiv Patel and Mathew Hayden, scored 36 runs and 26 runs respectively but then tight bowling by Bangalore restricted Chennai to 146/5 in 20 overs, Dhoni also chipped with 28 runs but unable to make a competetive total.
Bangalore reduced to 22/2 but 3rd wicket partnership of 72 runsbetween Manish Pandey and Rahul Dravid, score 48 runs and 44 runs respectively put Bangalore in a comfortable position and then Kohli and Ross Taylor sealed a comfortable win with 7 balls remaining.
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