Date – Apr 29, 2009
Result – Bangalore Royal Challengers win by 5 wickets
Kolkata Knight Riders Innings
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first.They could not have got more disastrous start as they lost McCullum for a golden duck. Hodge and Gayle then took the score to 45 when Hodge became the victim of Kumble. Even Gayle could not play as freely as he always does but still managed 40 runs in 37 balls. Ganguly failed once and scored just 1 run, leaving his fans disappointed. M van Wyk and Saha then played and duo helped Kolkata Knight Riders cross the 100 run mark. In the end it was a total well shot of what was expected and Kolkata Knight Riders managed 139/6 in 20 overs.
Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings
Bangalore Royal Challengers got off to a very good start and scored 50 runs without the loss of any wicket. Chasing a modest target of 140, they looked pretty comfortable right from the first over.Goswami was the first to get out when the team score was 69, soon Kallis also got out and Bangalore Royal Challengers were 77/2 in 12.4 overs. Kohli and Pieterson then got some starts but were sent back by Hodge in the same over. Bangalore Royal Challengers required 33 more runs with 6 wickets in hand in remaining 4 overs. Merve got out after scoring just 9 runs. The match became quite interesting as Bangalore Royal Challengers needed 10 runs in the last over. Boucher as many times before was the savior for Bangalore Royal Challengers and scored the required runs to win the match.
Fall of wickets
Bangalore Royal Challengers
S Goswami (69-1, 11.1), J Kallis (77-2, 12.4), V Kohli (106-3, 15.4), K Pietersen (107-4, 16), R Merwe (129-5, 18.5)
Kolkata Knight Riders
B McCullum (0-1, 0.1), B Hodge (45-2, 5.5), S Ganguly (54-3, 8.3), C Gayle (70-4, 11.2), W Saha (110-5, 16.3), L Shukla (118-6, 17.4)
Man of the match – MV Boucher