Deccan Chargers, the team which came last, in last edition of points table has ringed. in a reversal of script, as they defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers, by six runs in a tense and fitting final, after 55 days of breath taking cricket.
Earlier Kumble won the toss and like most other captains ,in this week of IPL, choose to bowl in Johannesburg pitch, which was in slower side, after exorbitant amount of cricket played. Deccan chargers had the worst start to their innings, by losing their captain Adam Gilchrist, for a third ball duck and fittingly it was opposition captain, with the ball at the other end.
Bangalore Royal Challengers bowlers had the Deccan Chargers in a spin, by bowling good aggressive spells and even after Andrew Symonds minor assault of thirty odd runs, they had their scoring rate well below six runs and guess what Kumble returned again, to remove rampaging Andrew Symonds and put the brakes in their scoring rate.
Gibbs, who was a spectator in the other end, was watching all these things with a school kid silence and rotating strike without going for any big strike. Just when the pair of Rohit Sharma and Gibbs were looking to appear dangerous, Kumble removed Rohit Sharma and Venugopal Rao in quick succession and one can’t stop admiring the veteran, who could not be kept out of action.
Vinay kumar bowled admirably in the end and also picked two crucial wickets, which emulated Gibbs late strikes and Deccan chargers could manage only one forty three runs, which is less than the par score here and it was clearly advantage Bangalore in the break.
Jacques kallis and Manish Pandey opened for Bangalore and the South African was very aggressive in garnering boundaries, but R P singh removed Jacques kallis. In came another South African Roelof Merwe, who appeared to like a man who have drunk some Kingfisher special liquor, where he clouted three sixes when most of the batsmen had issues clinching singles and just when it appeared Bangalore had sight on the coveted trophy Ojha removed both Merwe and Manish pandey.
It came to Ross Taylor and Rahul Dravid ,to romp Bangalore, to the finsh line, but later failed to relish under pressure gifting away his wicket to some good bowling of Harmeet Singh. But real turning point of the match came when Symonds removed Virat Kohli and ominous Ross Taylor in successive balls and tilt their balance in their favour.
The match went down to the wire, where fifteen runs were needed with Robin uthappa in the grease, but R P Singh bolwed admirably well under pressure to help his team clinch the elusive trophy.
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