Deccan Chargers defeat Royal Challengers to win IPL 2

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The IPL final was one match that had all the ingredients of a thrilling match. After 37 days of intense battle, the final match was won by Deccan Chargers Hyderabad defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore.

CJ: Gloria D Souza

Mon, May 25, 2009 00:17:48 IST

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IPL Final Winner

THE IPL final was one match that had all the ingredients of a thrilling match. After 37 days of intense battle, the final match was won by Deccan Chargers Hyderabad defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Both the finalists were lying at the bottom of the table last year in the IPL edition which Rajasthan Royals had won under the captainship of Shane Warne. But this time, Rajasthan failed to make it even to the semi finals. A total of 143 was never going to be easy. But Deccan Chargers who were indeed charged up with the ball struck at crucial moments and restricted the RCB to 137 runs, thus winning the final by 6 runs. RP Singh, the purple cap holder dismissed Jacques Kallis for 15 runs. Newly discovered young sensation Manish Pandey (4) and Roelof van der Merwe (32) were dismissed by Pragyan Ojha in quick successions. Later even Praveen Kumar fell to Ojha taking his tally to 3 wickets. RP Singh finished with figures of 1-16.

Harmeet Singh and Symonds also struck twice each and provided the Chargers wickets at regular intervals thus breaking the backbone of Bangalore’s batting.

After being put into bat after RCB won the toss, the Chargers started off badly loosing their captain and in form batsman Adam Gilchrist off the second ball of the innings bowled by Anil Kumble. Every time Kumble came to bowl he struck and finished with an impressive figure of 4 for 16 off four overs. It was a fifty run partnership between Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma that steadied the Chargers innings after Symonds departed. It was the half century of Gibbs that enabled Chargers to put up a modest total for Bangalore to chase.

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