Efficient Bangalore outplay Chennai
Manish Pandey followed up his century with a 35-ball 48 to ensure Royal Challengers Bangalore chased a below-par target with ease to reach the final
23/05Result
2nd Semi-Final (D/N), Indian Premier League at Johannesburg, May 23 2009
Player of the Match
23/05Result
2nd Semi-Final (D/N), Indian Premier League at Johannesburg, May 23 2009
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
MK Pandey
48(35) 7x4 - 0x6
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 17 runs
- 3x4 - 0x6
Match Details
Toss
Royal Challengers Bangalore , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Royal Challengers Bangalore advanced
Season
Hours of play (local time)
16.30 start, First Session 16.30-17.50, Interval 17.50-18.10, Second Session 18.10-19.30
Match days
23 May 2009 - day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS 146/5 (20 OVERS)
- MS Dhoni28 (30)
- Parthiv Patel36 (27)
- Vinay Kumar2/38 (4)
- Roelof van der Merwe1/23 (4)
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE 149/4 (18.5 OVERS)
- Rahul Dravid44 (39)
- Manish Pandey48 (35)
- Muthiah Muralidaran1/15 (4)
- Manpreet Gony1/23 (2)
The tag of the 'Test team' seems a distant memory.
So now we have a new set of finalists. Pandey set it up with a very breezy and stylish 48 before Dravid took over. Chennai were just outplayed and they suffered because Murali didn't have enough support. I agree with a lot of you that he should have been introduced earlier.
Jennings thanks the whole world for supporting his team. He says the team has picked up a lot of fighting. He told Cricinfo yesterday that his team was "tired of losing."
Here's the prez.
Dhoni: "The wicket was a bit slow but they played better cricket score. We were looking for a 160 score but we lost wickets at the wring time. They outplayed us. We were short by 15 runs at least. Bowling was a bit fragile, but we could have made it tougher for them."
Kumble: "One more win will be nice. Their score was not even a par score. Our batsmen backed themselves to clear the boundary. I thought Praveen and Vinay bowled very well at the end."
Pandey is the Man of the Match: "Today I got the license from Anil bhai to hit. I didn't want to get out to Murali and wanted to give Rahul the strike."
Time to catch my breath. Thanks for your company today and the mails. Get set for the final tomorrow between Bangalore and Deccan at the same venue. Cheers guys!
18.5
4
Oram to Kohli, FOUR, game over and Bangalore make it to the final! It's a half volley on the pads and he whips it past midwicket, several red shirts make their way to the outfield, we have a fairytale climax in the final, the two bottom-placed teams from last year will fight it out this time for the trophy
18.4
0
Oram to Kohli, no run, excellent yorker and he manages to dig it out
18.3
1
Oram to Taylor, 1 run, short delivery and he pulls to deep square-leg
The man in red at the dugout get ready to charge out
18.2
1
Oram to Kohli, 1 run, squeezes out a yorker outside off to Balaji at third man
18.1
1
Oram to Taylor, 1 run, fired on the pads and he clips it to short fine leg, they scamper through for the run
18.1
7nb
Oram to Taylor, (no ball) SIX, it's a waist high full toss and Taylor moves across and clubs it over deep squre leg, Koertzen signals a four at first and the decision goes upstairs, it's a six and a no-ball as well
Run a ball needed. Here's oram
Match Coverage
All Match News'One more win will be nice' - Kumble
Royal Challengers Bangalore reached the final on the back of a five-game winning streak, and captain Anil Kumble has asked for one more victory to cap their resurgence
The perfect tango
A rapidly maturing Pandey plus a relaxed Dravid equals a near-perfect chase
Efficient Bangalore outplay Chennai
Manish Pandey followed up his century with a 35-ball 48 to ensure Royal Challengers Bangalore chased a below-par target with ease to reach the final
