Banglore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings - Match 44 - Kingsmead, Durban

Banglore Royal Challengers clinched a final over victory against the Chennai Super Kings and hence their hopes for a semi-final berth alive. Chasing 130 for victory Banglore started off poorly loosing Kallis(0), Dravid(8) and Uthappa(6) early. But last match's hero Ross Taylor played a completely contrating innings compared to the previous one and helped Banglore to a victory. Taylor anchored the innings and in partnership with Virat Kohli stabilized the banglore innings. Taylor made 46 from 50 balls and Kohli contributed 38 from 35 balls. The match took an intersting turn when wickets started tumbling after the fall of Kohli. A six hit by Praveen of the first ball of penultimate over from Balaji helped ease tension, but the pendulum swung again when Taylor got out the first ball of the final over, with 5 runs to win of 5 balls, Royals held their nerve and reached home with 2 balls to spare.

Earlier in the day, Chennai batsman succumed to the accurate bowling of Kumble and Kallis. Except for Mathew Hayden who scored 60 from 38 balls, none of the Chennai bastmen stayed long enough in the crease. In what can be said as the worst batting performance of the season by Chennai, they managed to put up a below par total of 129loosing all their wickets with two balls to go.

Toss
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and chose to bat first

Brief Scores
Chennai Super Kings - 129 all out in 19.4 overs(M Hayden - 60, MS Dhoni - 18, A Kumble - 2/12, J Kallis - 2/18)
Banglore Royal Challengers - 132/8 in 19.4 overs(R Taylor - 46, V Kohli - 38, J Oram - 2/12, A Morkel - 2/13)

Result
Banglore Royal Challengers won the match by 2 wickets.

Chennai Super Kings Vs Banglore Royal Challengers - Match 6 - St.George's Park, Port Elizabeth - Bulletin

The Chennai Super Kings faced a buoyant Banglore Royal Challengers in the sixth match of the DLF IPL 2. Having lost the first match, Chennai Super Kings badly needed a win to kick start their campaign in IPL 2. On the other hand Banglore Royal Challengers were looking to maintain their momentum from the last game. Chennai won the toss and decided to bat first on what looked like a decent wicket to bat on. Hayden and Parthiv Patel started brilliantly sending the Royal Challengers on a leather hunt. Chennai were on a run-feast and the scoreboard read 106/0 at the end of 10 overs when the tactical time out was taken. Pieterson started the eleventh over and got the wicket of Parthiv Patel in the first ball of his spell. The next ball Hayden was run out, thanks to a wrong call from Raina. Raina, Dhoni and Flintoff chipped in and set a target of 180 runs for the Banglore Royal Challengers.

Banglore started disastrously with Praveen Kumar loosing his leg stick to a brilliant ball from Gony. Kallis was looking good before he was trapped leg before wicket by Morkel. Flintoff and Muralitharan were introduced into the attack and Royal Challengers batsmen struggled to get to a two figure score. At the end of 14th over the scoreboard read 78/9 with Dravid stranded at one end and Kumble joining him. Soon Dravid perished trying to hit Balaji out of the park and Banglore Royal Challengers were bundled out for 87 in 15.2 overs. The heros of one day are thrashed on the other day and zeros become heros, and this ladies and gentlemen is T 20 cricket for you.

Toss:
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to Bat

Teams:
Chennai Super Kings
P Patel, M Hayden, S Raina, A Flintoff, M S Dhoni, A Morkel, S Badrinath, J Sharma, L Balaji, M Muralitharan, M Gony
Banglore Royal Challengers
J Kallis, R Uthappa, K Pieterson, R Taylor, R Dravid, V Kohli, R Bishnoi, P Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Dale Steyn, A Kumble

Brief Scores:
Chennai Super Kings - 179/5 in 20 overs (M Hayden - 65, Parthiv Patel - 30, P Kumar - 2/37, K Pieterson - 1/14)
Banglore Royal Challengers - 87 all out in 15.2 overs (J Kallis - 24, Dravid - 20, R Uthappa - 20, M Muralitharan - 3/11, L Balaji - 2/18)

Result:
Chennai Super Kings Won the match by 92 runs.