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The 2009 Indian Premier League final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match played between the Deccan Chargers and the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 24 May 2009 at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg to determine the winner of the 2009 Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) is a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2009 Indian Premier League. They were captained by Kevin Pietersen. Royal Challengers Bangalore finished runners-up in the IPL and qualified for the ...
Player of the tournament: Adam Gilchrist - Deccan Chargers; Player of the final: Anil Kumble - Royal Challengers Bangalore; Under-23 success of the tournament: Rohit Sharma (333 runs, 11 wickets) - Deccan Chargers [28] Kingfisher Fair Play Award: Kings XI Punjab
The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (often abbreviated as RCB) are a franchise cricket team based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). One of the original eight teams in the IPL, the team has made three final appearances in the IPL, losing all (in 2009 to the Deccan Chargers, in 2011 to the Chennai Super Kings and in 2016 to the Sunrisers Hyderabad).
On 19 April, the Deccan Chargers started their 2009 Indian Premier League (2009 IPL) campaign with an eight-wicket win over the Kolkata Knight Riders at Cape Town. The Chargers rested Chaminda Vaas and named Adam Gilchrist , Herschelle Gibbs , Scott Styris and Fidel Edwards as their four foreign players for their first match. [ 40 ]
RCB's performance improved under Kumble, winning six of their last eight matches to finish third in the league table. [20] They defeated Chennai Super Kings in the semi-final but fell short by six runs in the final against Deccan Chargers. [21] [22] Ross Taylor was one of the top performers for RCB in 2009 and 2010.
Due to financial problems Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, the team owner of Deccan Chargers announced a sale of their team by auction.The sale, announced in a newspaper advertisement on Thursday, was to be through a bidding process that was to be completed on 13 September, with the winning bid to be announced on the same day. [9]
The 2009 Indian Premier League final was won by Deccan Chargers and the 2016 Indian Premier League final was won by Sunrisers Hyderabad. Their 2020 clash was also at a high-stake eliminator, where a fifty by Kane Williamson trumped RCB to knock them out of IPL 2020. Even with their abysmal 2021 season, SRH were able to beat a rising RCB.