IPL Winner 2009
Alike the first IPL season (2008), the 2009 tournament also witnessed the emergence of an unexpected winner of the league-the Deccan Chargers! The bottom team in 2008 table was the victor of 2009, an event hard to be guessed by anyone beforehand. Due to terrorist attack speculation, the BCCI had decided to organize the tournament outside India and, finally after 37 days of hard-core performance, thrill and entertainment in South Africa the D-day arrived on May 25, johannesburg. After a splendid performance in the preliminaries and the early finals Deccan Chargers appeared as a promising winner in the finale, but none could afford to prophesy so as the opponent Bangalore Royal challengers were also at their best.
As expected, the finale was more of a thriller than a one-sided hitherto. It began with Royal Challengers opting to field first and Kumble’s bagging of the legendary wickets of Gilchrist and Symonds at the start and barring the Chargers at a total of 143/6 justified their decision. Gibbs unbeaten 53 ended up in vain due to lack of support. Despite a good bowling innings, Challengers gave a poor bat start loosing Kallis followed by Manish Pandey, Dravid and others finishing off 139/9 short of 6 runs. The cricket crazy fans witnessed a nail-biting finale with Man of the match- Anil Kumble(RC) and Adam Gilchrist(DC).
As expected, the finale was more of a thriller than a one-sided hitherto. It began with Royal Challengers opting to field first and Kumble’s bagging of the legendary wickets of Gilchrist and Symonds at the start and barring the Chargers at a total of 143/6 justified their decision. Gibbs unbeaten 53 ended up in vain due to lack of support. Despite a good bowling innings, Challengers gave a poor bat start loosing Kallis followed by Manish Pandey, Dravid and others finishing off 139/9 short of 6 runs. The cricket crazy fans witnessed a nail-biting finale with Man of the match- Anil Kumble(RC) and Adam Gilchrist(DC).
