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[cool.aquarian]

This was Chokers' Day. A few hours after the Mumbai Indians collapsed from a winning position, thereby denting their semi-final chances, the Chennai Super Kings outdid them as panic struck at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. The Bangalore Royal Challengers seemed certain to crash to their sixth successive defeat but even they might struggle to fathom how they pulled off this robbery.

It was one-way traffic for most of the game. Chasing a modest 127, Chennai appeared to be in cruise control at 60 for no loss, and later at 85 for 2, but Stephen Fleming's dismissal induced some panic. Anil Kumble's inspirational 3 for 14, the best figures for Bangalore in the IPL, played a part before Dale Steyn turned the heat on the lower order. The pitch hardly played a part in this low-scoring match - one where both sets of batsmen tried their best to outdo themselves in throwing it away.

Bangalore Royal Challengers 126 for 8 (Dravid 47, Morkel 4-32, Gony 2-11) beat Chennai Super Kings 112 for 8 (Fleming 45, Kumble 3-14) by 14 runs

[klm9876]

a classic encounter of bowlers, where the batsmen showed that nothing is impossible. what is known as the batsmen game showed how things can change pretty fast if the batsmen themselves want to throw it away, a thriller of a match where chennai lost a match from a position where it was probably one of the toughest task to lose. hats off to chennai really, its not a easy task to lose chasing 126 when you are 60 for no loss at a healthy strike rate.

[kasana_ajay]

Banglore bowlers did really well in the end to bowl chennai out. It was good result for under fire Rahul Dravid. Dale Steyn and Kumble bowled really well in the end. Some really good catches and runouts won the match for RC

[Lalit Burma]

This win really give some relax to Dravid and I am happy for him. As I always said that he is not suitable for this format but thanx to him he really showed the character and at many times he was the top scorer for his team.