Deccan Chargers won the 2009 IPL Championship, beat Bangalore by 6 runs in the Final

Deccan Chargers won the 2009 IPL Championship by 6 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a low scoring tight final on Sunday, May 24th at Johannesburg. Deccan scored 143/6 and restricted bangalore to 137/9 in 20 overs.

Deccan Chargers scored 143/6 in 20 overs after they lost skipper Adam Gilchrist in 1st over by his counterpart Kumble but Herschell Gibbs scored 53 runs off 48 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes brought back them into the match well supported by Andrew Symonds and Rohit Sharma scored 33 runs and 24 runs respectively. Anil Kumble took 4 wickets for 16 runs in 4 overs for Bangalore.

In reply, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost Kallis early in the inning but Roelf van der Merwe scored 32 runs off 21 balls and were 99/4 in 14 overs but Symonds took the wickets of Ross Taylor and Kohli in 2 balls to brought them back in the match.

Match Summary:

Deccan Chargers - 143/6 in 20 overs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore - 137/9 in 20 overs.

Result - Deccan Chargers won by 6 Runs and DLF IPL Cup.

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2009 IPL Final - Deccan Chargers (DC) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Live

The final of 2009 IPL will be played beteen two bottom placed teams, Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday, May 24th at Johannesburg. IPL2 final has scheduled to start at 16.30 PM local time.

Deccan won the last match comfortably against title favorite Delhi by 6 wickets with 14 balls remaining as captain Adam Gilchrist leading from the fron and he is a big match player, contributed well in all finals he had played for world champions Australia.

Royal Challengers Bangalore removed their test team status and won the last 5 matches in a roe beaten top teams of the tournament including Deccan Chargers. Manish Pandey is a new sensation scored century in the last match against Deccan and in the semi-final scored 48 runs and won two man of the match awardsin two matches he played this season.

Deccan Chargers Playing 11 for the IPL Final Match:

Adam Gilchrist (C/WK), Heschell Gibbs, Tirumalsetti Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao, Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, RP Singh, Ryan Harris, Azhar Bilakhia.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing 11 for the IPL Final Match:
Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Jesse Ryder, Mark Boucher (wk), KP Appanna, B Akhil, R Vinay Kumar, Anil Kumble (capt).

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Deccan beat Delhi in 1st semifinal of 2009 IPL - Gilchrist hit fastest 50 of IPL

The worst team of 2008 IPL Deccan Chargers enters the final of 2009 IPL, as they beat Delhi Daredevils in the 1st semi-final by 6 wickets as captain Gichrist hit fastest half century of IPL in just 17 balls on Friday, May 22nd.


Delhi Daredevils lost 2 wickets without a run on the board and then Seheag and Dilshan then rebuilt the inning with a 85 runs partnership contributed 39 runs and 65 runs respectively. Ryan Harris and RP Singh took 2 wickets each.



Adam Gilchrist the lead from the front hit 5 ours in the 1st over of the inning and never allowed Delhi bowlers to bounce back in his innig of 85 runs off 35 balls with 10 fours and 5 sixes to take his team in the final of IPL2 on Sunday, May 24th.



Match Summary:

Delhi Daredevils - 153/8 in 20 overs.

Delhi Daredivils - 154/4 in 20 overs.

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First IPL Semi Final - Delhi Daredevils (DD) Vs Deccan Chargers (DC) - IPL 2009 57th Match

After 56 interesting & entertaining matches, Indian Premier League (IPL) 2009 finally reaches the first semi final between Delhi Daredevils and Deccan Chargers at SuperSport Park starting from 16.30 local time (SA), [14.30 GMT, 8.00PM IST.]

Delhi Daredevils are consistent from match 1 and are only the team in IPL 2009 not to have lost two matches in a row. Delhi has beaten each team in the IPL 2009 at least once. Delhi Daredevils are very happy to see that Sehwag and Gambhir finding form at just the right time and make the Delhi team even more dangerous. AB de Villiers, Tillakratne Dlishan and Dinesh Karthik all are delivering with the bat in middle overs. Delhi Daredevils bowling is also on top led by Ashish Nehra and Dirk Nannes while Amit Mishra, Daniel Vettori and Rajat Bhatia are bowling brilliantly in middle overs.

Deccan Chargers are also having good IPL till now. They have won some matches with efforts of Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Young Rohit Sharma who is also performing well in bowling too. R.P Singh is the leading wicket taker in this IPL 2009 till now and well supported by Pragyan Ojha in middle overs.

Delhi Daredevils Playing 11 for Today Match

Gautam Gambhir, David Warner, Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Virender Sehwag(C), Dinesh Karthik(WK), Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan, Ashish Nehra, Dirk Nannes

Deccan Chargers Playing 11 for Today Match

Adam Gilchrist (C/WK), Heschell Gibbs, Tirumalsetti Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao, Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, RP Singh, Chaminda Vaas, Shoaib Ahmed.

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