2009 Indian Premier League Final

The Chargers started its campaign with four consecutive wins, but lost its next three matches to the Daredevils, the Royals and the Kings. It qualified for the semifinals after losing its last two league matches.[2] The Royal Challengers won its first match in the group stage to the Royals. But, it lost all of its next four matches. Then, it won three consecutive league matches against Knight Riders, Kings XI and Indians. But again lost two. Then it won the last 4 matches of the league.

The two teams faced each other in two matches of the group stage, The two matches were won by the two teams for 1 times.,[3][4]

The Chargers played the Daredevils in the first semi-final. The Chargers won the toss and decided to field first. The Daredevils failed to make an opening partnership. Gautam Gambhir was out on the 5th ball of the match with a zero run in scorecard for him and the team. And the Daredevils got a big shock when David Warner followed Gambhir in the very next ball. Daredevils were 0/2 after Over 1. But Virender Sehwag and Tillakaratne Dilshan added 85 runs in the 3rd wicket partnership. At the 85 run Sehwag was out scoring 39 from 31. After that the middle and lower middle batting order took the run to 150's. Daredevils scored 153 for 8 after 20 overs. Tillakaratne Dilshan scored the highest run for his team. He scored 65 from 51. Chargers pacer Ryan Harris was the most successful bowler with a 3/27 figure in 4 overs. After coming to bat Chargers lost their first wicket in 22 runs. But captain's 85 from 35 made the target easier and Charger reached the target in 17.4 overs with 6 wickets in hand. Adam Gilchrist was the man of the match[5]

In the second semi-final, Super Kings played the Royal Challengers . The Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to field first. After making 26 runs at the 61 runs opening partnership Mathew Hayden was out. Then MS Dhoni came to bat. But his slow 28 from 30 made the innings slow. The middle order player Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel tried to score quickly. But they could make 146 for 5 in 20 overs. Parthiv Patel was the highest scorer for Super Kings with 36 from 27. Vinay Kumar was the most successful bowler with 4 from 38 runs in 4 overs. Royal Challengers lost early wickets. They lost Jacques Kallis at the 17 runs. At 22 runs they lost Roelof van der Merwe. But 70 runs at 3rd wicket made the way easier for Royal Challengers. With 92 runs on the board, Manish Pandey departed. After 18 runs at the 4th wicket, with 110 runs on the board Rahul Dravid also departed. Then Virat Kohli and Ross Taylor didn't do any mistake to get the winning runs. Royal Challengers chased 146 with 7 balls and 6 wickets in hand. Manish Pandey was the highest scorer for RCB, scoring 48 from 35 for Royal Challengers while Muttiah Muralitharan took 1 for 15 in 4 overs. Manish Pandey was named the man of the match.[6]

On-field umpires: Rudi Koertzen and Simon Taufel

Third umpire: Daryl Harper

Match referee: Javagal Srinath

Reserve umpire: Zed Ndamane

Toss: Royal Challengers elected to field first

Result: Chargers won by 6 runs

League impact: Chargers won the 2009 Indian Premier League

Source: [7]

Deccan Chargers innings

Batsmen	Method of Dismissal	Runs	Balls	Strike rate
Adam Gilchrist*	b Kumble	0	3	0.00
Herschelle Gibbs	not out	53	48	110.41
Tirumalasetti Suman	c Pandey b Vinay Kumar	10	11	90.90
Andrew Symonds	b Kumble	33	21	157.14
Rohit Sharma	c Pandey b Kumble	24	23	104.34
Venugopal Rao	c Taylor b Kumble	0	2	0.00
Azhar Bilakhia	lbw b Vinay Kumar	6	7	85.71
Ryan Harris	not out	9	5	180.00
Pragyan Ojha	did not bat
Harmeet Singh	did not bat
R. P. Singh	did not bat
Extras	(2 lb, 6 w)	8
Total	(20 overs, 7.15 runs per over)	143/6

Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Gilchrist, 0.3 overs), 2-18 (Suman, 3.3 overs), 3-58 (Symonds, 8.5 overs), 4-110 (R Sharma, 16.2 overs), 5-115 (V Rao, 16.6 overs), 6-134 (Bilakhia, 19.1 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore innings

Batsmen	Method of Dismissal	Runs	Balls	Strike rate
Jacques Kallis	b Singh	15	17	88.23
Manish Pandey	c Gilchrist b Ojha	4	8	50.00
Roelof van der Merwe	st Gilchrist b Ojha	32	21	152.38
Rahul Dravid	b Harmeet Singh	9	13	69.23
Ross Taylor	c V Rao b Symonds	27	20	135.00
Virat Kohli	st Gilchrist b Symonds	7	8	87.50
Mark Boucher	c Gibbs b Harmeet Singh	5	6	83.33
Robin Uthappa	not out	17	15	113.33
Praveen Kumar	c Singh b Ojha	2	3	66.66
Vinay Kumar	c Harmeet Singh b Harris	8	8	100.00
Anil Kumble*	not out	1	1	100.00
Extras	(9 lb, 1 w)	10
Total	(20 overs, 6.85 runs per over)	137/9

Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Kallis, 3.3 overs), 2-36 (Pandey, 6.1 overs), 3-57 (van der Merwe, 8.3 overs), 4-79 (Dravid, 11.4 overs), 5-99 (Taylor, 14.2 overs), 6-99 (Kohli, 14.3 overs), 7-107 (Boucher, 15.5 overs), 8-110 (Praveen Kumar, 16.4 overs), 9-129 (Vinay Kumar, 18.6 overs)