| GEO Sports | | Bangalore’s thrilling win over Chennai | Updated at: 2027 PST, Thursday, May 14, 2009
DURBAN: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Chennai Super Kings by two wickets with two balls left in a thrilling encounter in the 44th Twenty20 match in the second edition of the Indian Premier League here at Kingsmead on Thursday.
Chasing an easy target, Bangalore lost their three early wickets for only 30 runs on the board but a 56-run fourth wicket stand between Ross Taylor and Virat Kohli helped the team to fight for win.
Taylor made 46 with two fours and one six and Kohli scored 38 with four fours and two sixes.
However, Bangalore lost three more wickets with an addition of 21 runs and they still needed 23 runs from 21 balls but they managed to achieve the target in 19.3 overs.
For Bangalore, captain Anil Kumble, Jacquis Kallis and Vinay Kumar claimed two wickets each for 12, 18 and 30 runs, respectively.
Earlier Chennai captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first but his batsmen could not resist against tidy bowling from Bangalore pacers and spinners and they were all out for 129 runs in 19.4 overs.
Matthew Hayden was the only batsman who played Bangalore bowlers with ease. He made a brilliant 60 from 38 balls with five fours and three sixes.
Only two other batsmen – captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni (18) and Suresh Raina (13) – could get into double figures.
For Bangalore, captain Anil Kumble, Jacquis Kallis and Vinay Kumar claimed two wickets each for 12, 18 and 30 runs, respectively.
Chennai went with an unchanged eleven while Bangalore replaced KP Appanna with Praveen Kumar and Jesse Ryder with Roelof van der Merwe.
Teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Dravid, Ross Taylor, Roelof van der Merwe, Mark Boucher (wk), Praveen Kumar, B Akhil, Anil Kumble (captain), R Vinay Kumar.
Chennai Super Kings: Matthew Hayden, M Vijay, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, MS Dhoni (captain & wk), Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, Sudeep Tyagi, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Muttiah Muralitharan. |  |
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