Bangalore beat Chennai by 6 wickets to meet Deccan in the Final of 2009 IPL

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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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore - 2009 IPL 2nd Semi Final

Last year runner up Chennai Super Kings will take last year 2nd last team Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2nd semifinal of 200p IPL on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at Johannesburg.

Chennai Super Kings is looking favorite as Michael Hussey is also available and will replace out of form Jacob Oram along with tournament highest scorer Mathew Hayden. Muralitharan is also in good form to test Bangalore's middle order.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won their last 4 matches to reach the semis and defeated Channai in their last high scoring match. Bangalore will highly depend on Kallis, Ross Taylor, Dravid and last match hero Manish Pandey in batting deparment while in bowling Pravin Kumar taking regular wicket and Kumble is very economical.

Chennai Super Kings Playing 11 for Today Match:

Parthive Patel, Matthew Hayden, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, S Badrinath, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Sudeep Tyagi, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing 11 for Today 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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IPL 2009 Semifinals Schedule and Teams, IPL semifinal matches

The puzzle is almost solved of are which teams who will qualify for the semifinals of IPL 2009 Championship.

Teams who are sure to qualify for the semifinals are:

1. Delhi Daredevils, with 18 points and a match to play
2. Super Kings, with 17 points
3. Deccan Chargers, 14 points and 1 match yet to play
4. Bangalore Royal Challengers, 14 points and 1 match yet to play

These are the 4 most likely teams which should play the semifinals of this years edition of IPL.

Today’s matches will not hamper much of the top 4 teams unless Bangalore Royal Challengers loose with an utterly miserable run rate ( a loss with a deficit of 80 runs) against Deccan Chargers in tonight’s fixture.

The semifinals are going to be action packed with this years 4 top teams fighting hard to win the championship. Amazingly last year IPL 2008 bottom ranked teams - Deccan Chargers and Royal Challenger Bangalore made it to the semifinals of this year’s IPL2009

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