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Chennai Super Kings has a defeat in their first IPL match against Mumbai Indians. On the other hand, Bangalore Royal Challengers had deated IPL T20 season 1 champions Rajasthan Royals in their opening match. But everybody knew that Dhoni and his boys had the potential to return back strongly in the tournament. And that is what they did with a resounding win of 92 runs. Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. Matthew Hayden (65 off 35 balls) and Parthiv Patel (30 off 26 balls) smashed the Bangalore bowlers for fours and sixes and the Chennai Super Kings reached 106/0 in the first 10 overs itself. Though Chennai lost wickets at regular intervals after that but the base laid by Hayden was enough to cruise them CSK to 179/5 in their 20 overs. Bangalore Royal Challengers lost wickets at regular intervals when they came to bat and the efforts of Jacques Kallis (24 off 19 balls), Rahul Dravid (20 off 18 balls) and Robin Uthappa (20 off 19 balls) were not enough as they were bundled out for 87 runs in 15.2 overs. Muttiah Muralidharan bowled a super spell of 3/11 which fetched him the Man of the Match award.

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Chennai
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Parthiv Patel (W) b Kevin Pietersen 30 26 2 1 115.38
Matthew Hayden run out (Rahul Dravid) 65 35 9 2 185.71
Suresh Raina c Virat Kohli b Praveen Kumar 28 29 1 1 96.55
MS Dhoni (C) c Rajesh Bishnoi b Praveen Kumar 16 14 0 1 114.29
Andrew Flintoff not out 22 13 2 1 169.23
Albie Morkel b Dale Steyn 5 3 1 0 166.67
Subramaniam Badrinath
Joginder Sharma
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Manpreet Gony
Muttiah Muralidaran
Extras: b – 0, w – 8, nb – 0, lb – 5 13
Total: (179 for 5 wickets in 20.0 overs) 179 Run Rate: 8.95
Fall of Wickets
1-106 (Parthiv Patel, 10.1), 2-106 (Matthew Hayden, 10.2), 3-144 (MS Dhoni, 16), 4-165 (Suresh Raina, 19), 5-179 (Albie Morkel, 20)

Bowling (Bangalore)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Praveen Kumar 4 0 37 2 0 0 9.25
Dale Steyn 4 0 35 1 0 2 8.75
Jacques Kallis 2 0 28 0 0 0 14
Vinay Kumar 1 0 12 0 0 0 12
Virat Kohli 1 0 9 0 0 0 9
Anil Kumble 4 0 26 0 0 1 6.5
Kevin Pietersen 3 0 14 1 0 0 4.67
Ross Taylor 1 0 13 0 0 1 13

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Bangalore

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Praveen Kumar b Manpreet Gony 0 3 0 0 0
Robin Uthappa (W) st MS Dhoni b Muttiah Muralidaran 20 19 2 0 105.26
Jacques Kallis lbw b Albie Morkel 24 19 5 0 126.32
Ross Taylor c & b Andrew Flintoff 1 4 0 0 25
Kevin Pietersen (C) lbw b Muttiah Muralidaran 0 1 0 0 0
Rahul Dravid c Andrew Flintoff b Lakshmipathy Balaji 20 18 2 0 111.11
Virat Kohli c Subramaniam Badrinath b Joginder Sharma 11 13 0 1 84.62
Rajesh Bishnoi c Lakshmipathy Balaji b Muttiah Muralidaran 0 1 0 0 0
Vinay Kumar c Matthew Hayden b Lakshmipathy Balaji 5 6 0 0 83.33
Dale Steyn run out (Suresh Raina) 0 3 0 0 0
Anil Kumble not out 1 5 0 0 20
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 1 5
Total: (87 for 10 wickets in 15.2 overs) 87 Run Rate: 5.67

Fall of Wickets
1-0 (Praveen Kumar, 0.3), 2-40 (Jacques Kallis, 5.2), 3-47 (Ross Taylor, 6.5), 4-49 (Kevin Pietersen, 7.3), 5-50 (Robin Uthappa, 7.5), 6-66 (Virat Kohli, 10.5), 7-66 (Rajesh Bishnoi, 11.1), 8-74 (Vinay Kumar, 12.4), 9-78 (Dale Steyn, 13.3), 10-87 (Rahul Dravid, 15.2)

Bowling (Chennai)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Manpreet Gony 3 0 24 1 0 2 8
Lakshmipathy Balaji 2.2 0 18 2 0 0 7.71
Albie Morkel 2 0 12 1 0 1 6
Andrew Flintoff 3 0 11 1 0 0 3.67
Muttiah Muralidaran 4 1 11 3 0 0 2.75
Joginder Sharma 1 0 10 1 0 1 10
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Rajasthan Royals entered IPL T20 season 2 as the defending champions and the expectations were quite high on them to perform. But Warne and his boys could not pull up a win against the Bangalore Royal Challengers which was led under a new captain Kevin Pieterse. However, it was proved once again in this match that the veterans are the pillars of any team and the two best performances in this match were Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble. Pietersen won the toss and decided to bat first. They were put on the backfoot by an exceptional bowling by Rajasthan Royals bolwers initially led by Dimitri Mascarenhas who took two wickets in the first three balls of the match. The Royal Challengers initially seemed to be unable to take on the challenge of the Royals but Rahul Dravid’s brilliant innings (66 off 48 balls) and Kevin Pietersen’s innings (32 off 30 balls) helped the Royal Challengers reach a score of 133 off their 20 overs. The target seemed to be quite easy but Rajasthan Royals had a terrible start where none of their batsmen could bat for long and they lost wickets and regular intervals. They could not increase their run rate too and an excellent spell by Anil Kumble picking 5 wickets for 5 runs made sure that they were bundled out for the second lowest t20 total ever of 58 runs. Rahul Dravid was declared as the man of the match for the game.

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 Bangalore
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Jesse Ryder c Mahesh Rawat b Dimitri Mascarenhas 0 2 0 0 0
Robin Uthappa (W) c Mahesh Rawat b Dimitri Mascarenhas 3 10 0 0 30
Ross Taylor b Dimitri Mascarenhas 0 1 0 0 0
Kevin Pietersen (C) c Niraj Patel b Tyron Henderson 32 30 4 0 106.67
Rahul Dravid c Shane Warne b Munaf Patel 66 48 8 1 137.5
Virat Kohli b Shane Warne 3 8 0 0 37.5
Balachandra Akhil b Shane Warne 9 9 1 0 100
Praveen Kumar c & b Munaf Patel 8 10 0 1 80
Vinay Kumar not out 8 2 2 0 400
Dale Steyn * not out 0 0 0 0
Anil Kumble
Extras: b – 0, w – 2, nb – 0, lb – 2 4  
Total: (133 for 8 wickets in 20.0 overs) 133 Run Rate: 6.65
Fall of Wickets
1-0 (Jesse Ryder, 0.2), 2-0 (Ross Taylor, 0.3), 3-17 (Robin Uthappa, 4.5), 4-52 (Kevin Pietersen, 8.5), 5-63 (Virat Kohli, 11.5), 6-88 (Balachandra Akhil, 15.4), 7-119 (Praveen Kumar, 19.2), 8-125 (Rahul Dravid, 19.4)
Bowling (Jaipur)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dimitri Mascarenhas 4 0 20 3 0 0 5
Kamran Khan 3 0 21 0 0 0 7
Munaf Patel 3 0 25 2 0 1 8.33
Tyron Henderson 4 0 30 1 0 0 7.5
Shane Warne 4 0 18 2 0 0 4.5
Yusuf Pathan 2 0 17 0 0 1 8.5
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  Jaipur
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Graeme Smith c Rahul Dravid b Praveen Kumar 2 11 0 0 18.18
Swapnil Asnodkar c Virat Kohli b Praveen Kumar 0 2 0 0 0
Niraj Patel c Anil Kumble b Jesse Ryder 4 16 0 0 25
Tyron Henderson b Jesse Ryder 11 15 0 1 73.33
Yusuf Pathan c Jesse Ryder b Anil Kumble 11 14 1 0 78.57
Dimitri Mascarenhas run out (Virat Kohli) 0 1 0 0 0
Ravindra Jadeja c Virat Kohli b Anil Kumble 11 10 0 1 110
Shane Warne (C) st Robin Uthappa b Anil Kumble 3 9 0 0 33.33
Mahesh Rawat (W) not out 4 7 0 0 57.14
Munaf Patel c Dale Steyn b Anil Kumble 0 2 0 0 0
Kamran Khan c Robin Uthappa b Anil Kumble 3 5 0 0 60
Extras: b – 0, w – 7, nb – 1, lb – 1 9  
Total: (58 for 10 wickets in 15.1 overs) 58 Run Rate: 3.82
Fall of Wickets
1-2 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 0.5), 2-7 (Graeme Smith, 3), 3-14 (Niraj Patel, 6.2), 4-28 (Tyron Henderson, 8.3), 5-28 (Dimitri Mascarenhas, 8.4), 6-47 (Yusuf Pathan, 11.1), 7-47 (Ravindra Jadeja, 11.2), 8-53 (Shane Warne, 13.3), 9-53 (Munaf Patel, 13.5), 10-58 (Kamran Khan, 15.1)
Bowling (Bangalore)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Praveen Kumar 3 0 7 2 1 2 2.33
Dale Steyn 2 0 6 0 0 3 3
Vinay Kumar 3 0 25 0 0 1 8.33
Jesse Ryder 4 0 14 2 0 1 3.5
Anil Kumble 3.1 1 5 5 0 0 1.58