Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Chennai Super Kings by 2 wick in a thriller to go to 4th position

In a thrilling match of IPL2 Royal Challengers Bangalore registered a thrilling 2 wickets victory over last year runner-up Chennai Super Kings in the 1st game of Thursday at Durban. Chennai made 129 all out and Bangalore scored 132/8 in 19.4 overs.

Chennai won the toss and elected to bat first reached 93/2 in 12 overs thanks to Hayden's 60 runs off 38 balls but they bowled ou on 129 runs in 19.4 overs, lost wickets for 36 runs due to some fine bowling by Bangalore.

Ross Taylor (46 runs) continues his last match form and along with Virat Kohli (38 runs) set a platform for an important 2 wickets win with 2 balls remaining and moved to 4th position in 2009 standings.

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IPL2 Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Chennai Super Kings Match Preview

Royal Challengers Bangalore today takes on Chennai Super Kings at Kingsmead, Durban on May 14, 2009. Match will start at 12:30 local time (10:30 GMT) (16.00 IST).

One can expect a one sided match, but looking at the last performance of Ross Taylor of Royal Challengers Bangalore who are currently struggling to stay in the race to the semi finals has the capability to topple any side. Whereas Chennai Super Kings has shown superb performance till now are clear favorites for today's game.

Team mostly remains the same as the last contest with strong set of highly skilled players in Ross Taylor a player with a power willow, Jacques Kallis the best known all rounder in ODI's, Robin Uthappa, India's hard hitter and few more who can turn a game around. . A good team on paper but performance is still below par. Chennai Super Kings has great blend of talents as the likes of Matthew Hayden, MS Dhoni, Albie Morkel, Suresh Raina of international fame, stop blinking your eyes when these great players are in action.

That match will surely present some great talents at show. Don't miss it!

Follow Live scores of this match at http://cricketlivescorecards.blogspot.com/

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