McCullum and Hodge thrashed Chennai in a last ball thriller for Kolkata

In an one of the finest chase of 2009 IPL, out of the tournament Kol chased down 188 runs on the last ball of the match against Chennai Super Kings and finally take some pride in the dissmal show so far in the tournament on Monday, May 19, at Centurion.

Chennai Super Kings batted 1st made 188/3 in 20 overs thanks to well contribution by Raina made 52 runs, Bailey 30 runs, Parthive Pate 25 runs, Dhoni 40 not out and 10 balls 21 runs Saha.

IPL then witnessed one of the thrilling chase with Brandon McCullum and Brad Hodge put 90 runs for the 2nd wicket in 10 overs contributed 81 runs off 48 balls and unbeaten 71 runs off 44 balls with four sixes respectively to registering a stunning win and brought some smile and pride for SRK and Kolkata fans. Saha also contributed 13 balls 25 runs in the last ball thriller.

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Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders Match Photos, Pics, Image Highlights

Watch Match photo highlights of Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders - which Royal Challengers won the game quite emphatically, with some awesome strokeplay by Ross Taylor.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - 41st match of IPL2

Match summary:

Royal Challengers Bangalore 176 for 4 (Taylor 81*, Kartik 2-28) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 173 for 4 (McCullum 84*, Hussey 43, Vinay Kumar 2-33) by six wickets

Which could have been one of the best batting performance by Kolkatta Knight Riders was shattered completely by Ross Taylor of ROyal challengers Bangalore with a superb knock of 81 runs in just 33 balls one of the quickest knock of this season quenching the thirst for a win to stay alive in the championship.

At reported earlier KKR had scored 173 thanks to thier captain McCullum,who scored his best score of this IPL season with 84 along with Hussey (43 of 27 balls) to give support for achieveing the total of a competitive 173; thinking thier bowlers would be able to restrict RCB who were sailing the same boat as that of KKR being the lowest in ranking of IPL 2

Ross Taylor had a different plan and came down heavily on the bowlers of KKR destroying them completely by hitting them all over the ground to score one of the quickest half century of this IPL.

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