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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