Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. Matthew Hayden (60 off 38 balls) put Chennai Super Kings to a blazing start and they were looking good for a 160+ score but then the whole Chennai batsmen crumbled suddenly as they were bowled out for 129 runs in 19.4 overs. Anil Kumble, Jacques Kallis and Vinay Kumar took two wickets each for the challengers. Bangalore Royal Challengers also lost wickets at regular intervals when they came to bat Ross Taylor (46 off 50 balls) and Virat Kohli (38 off 35 balls) played useful innings as Bangalore somehow manged to score 132/8 in 19.4 overs. Albie Morkel and Jacob Oram took two wickets each for the Chennai Super Kings. Ross Taylor was awarded the Man of the Match for his useful innings in the run chase.
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Chennai Super Kings
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Murali Vijay c Robin Uthappa b Jacques Kallis 5 9 0 0 55.56
Matthew Hayden c Vinay Kumar b Anil Kumble 60 38 5 3 157.89
Suresh Raina c Roelof van der Merwe b Jacques Kallis 13 10 3 0 130
MS Dhoni (C) (W) c & b Roelof van der Merwe 18 20 1 0 90
Jacob Oram c Mark Boucher b Vinay Kumar 7 15 0 0 46.67
Subramaniam Badrinath c Robin Uthappa b Anil Kumble 2 9 0 0 22.22
Albie Morkel c Anil Kumble b Praveen Kumar 9 7 1 0 128.57
Shadab Jakati not out 7 7 1 0 100
Lakshmipathy Balaji c Anil Kumble b Vinay Kumar 0 1 0 0 0
Muttiah Muralidaran run out (Praveen Kumar) 4 2 1 0 200
Sudeep Tyagi run out (Balachandra Akhil) 0 0 0 0
Extras: b - 0, w - 1, nb - 0, lb - 3 4
Total: (129 for 10 wickets in 19.4 overs) 129 Run Rate: 6.56
Fall of Wickets1-32 (Murali Vijay, 3.3), 2-48 (Suresh Raina, 5.4), 3-93 (MS Dhoni, 12.1), 4-101 (Matthew Hayden, 13.2), 5-107 (Subramaniam Badrinath, 16.1), 6-118 (Albie Morkel, 17.4), 7-118 (Jacob Oram, 18.2), 8-118 (Lakshmipathy Balaji, 18.3), 9-128 (Muttiah Muralidaran, 19.3), 10-129 (Sudeep Tyagi, 19.4)
Bowling (Bangalore)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Anil Kumble 4 0 12 2 0 0 3
Vinay Kumar 3 0 30 2 0 1 10
Praveen Kumar 3.4 0 34 1 0 0 9.27
Jacques Kallis 4 1 18 2 0 0 4.5
Roelof van der Merwe 4 0 29 1 0 0 7.25
Balachandra Akhil 1 0 2 0 0 0 2
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Bangalore Royal Challengers
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Robin Uthappa lbw b Albie Morkel 6 4 1 0 150
Jacques Kallis lbw b Albie Morkel 0 1 0 0 0
Rahul Dravid c Subramaniam Badrinath b Sudeep Tyagi 8 7 2 0 114.29
Ross Taylor c MS Dhoni b Jacob Oram 46 50 2 1 92
Virat Kohli c Jacob Oram b Lakshmipathy Balaji 38 35 4 2 108.57
Mark Boucher (W) c Matthew Hayden b Muttiah Muralidaran 5 5 1 0 100
Roelof van der Merwe run out (Muttiah Muralidaran) 3 6 0 0 50
Balachandra Akhil c Sudeep Tyagi b Jacob Oram 0 2 0 0 0
Praveen Kumar not out 12 6 0 1 200
Vinay Kumar not out 6 2 1 0 300
Anil Kumble (C)
Extras: b - 4, w - 3, nb - 0, lb - 1 8
Total: (132 for 8 wickets in 19.4 overs) 132 Run Rate: 6.71
Fall of Wickets1-2 (Jacques Kallis, 0.2), 2-12 (Rahul Dravid, 1.4), 3-30 (Robin Uthappa, 4.4), 4-86 (Virat Kohli, 14.2), 5-91 (Mark Boucher, 15.1), 6-104 (Roelof van der Merwe, 16.5), 7-107 (Balachandra Akhil, 17.3), 8-125 (Ross Taylor, 19.1)
Bowling (Chennai)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Albie Morkel 4 0 13 2 0 1 3.25
Sudeep Tyagi 2 0 21 1 0 1 10.5
Lakshmipathy Balaji 4 0 32 1 0 1 8
Shadab Jakati 4 0 25 0 0 0 6.25
Muttiah Muralidaran 4 0 24 1 0 0 6
Jacob Oram 1.4 0 12 2 0 0 7.2
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