1) Chennai Super Kings scored 146/5 in their 20 overs, with Raina scoring 28 runs and Dhoni scoring 26 runs. 2) Royal Challengers Bangalore chased down the target, scoring 149/4 in 18.5 overs with Taylor and Uthappa unbeaten on 24 and 17 runs respectively. 3) Manish Pandey was named man of the match for his contribution as Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets to advance to the IPL 2009 final.

1. Chennai Super Kings V Royal Challengers IPL 2009 2nd Semi-final

2. VENUE New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg South Africa

3. UMPIRES R Koertzen (SA) & S Taufel (AUS) Third Umpire: I Howell (SA) Match Referee: J Srinath (IND)

5. TEAMS Anil Kumble (c) Vinay Kumar Praveen Kumar Mark Boucher (wk) Robin Uthappa Ross Taylor Virat Kohli Rahul Dravid Roelof van der Merwe Manish Pandey Jacques Kallis IPL Bangalore Muttiah Muralitharan Lakshmipathy Balaji Shadab Jakati Manpreet Gony S Badrinath Jacob Oram Albie Morkel Suresh Raina MS Dhoni (c) Matthew Hayden Parthiv Patel (wk) IPL Chennai

6. http://webumpire.blogspot.com Total: 146 / 5 in 20.0 overs (Run Rate: 7.30) Extras: ( 3 wd, 3 lb, 0 b, 0 nb, 0 p) Muttiah Muralitharan Lakshmipathy Balaji Shadab Jakati Manpreet Gony 100.00 0 0 1 1 not out S Badrinath 128.57 1 0 7 9 c R Uthappa b Vinay Jacob Oram 117.65 1 1 17 20 not out Albie Morkel 105.26 1 1 19 20 c M Boucher b Praveen Suresh Raina 93.33 0 0 30 28 c V Kumar b Merwe MS Dhoni (c) 136.84 1 2 19 26 c M Pandey b Vinay Matthew Hayden 133.33 0 7 27 36 lbw b Kallis Parthiv Patel (wk) SR Sixes Fours Balls Runs IPL Chennai innings

7. http://webumpire.blogspot.com 5.75 2 0 1 23 0 4.0 Roelof van der Merwe 7.50 0 0 0 30 0 4.0 Anil Kumble (c) 9.50 0 0 2 38 0 4.0 Vinay Kumar 6.50 1 0 1 26 0 4.0 Jacques Kallis 6.50 0 0 1 26 0 4.0 Praveen Kumar Eco Wide No Wkts Runs M Overs Bowler IPL Bangalore Bollowing

9. http://webumpire.blogspot.com Total: 149 / 4 in 18.5 overs (Run Rate: 7.77) Extras: ( 0 wd, 3 lb, 0 b, 2 nb, 0 p) Anil Kumble (c) Vinay Kumar Praveen Kumar Mark Boucher (wk) Robin Uthappa 141.67 2 0 12 17 not out Ross Taylor 141.18 2 1 17 24 not out Virat Kohli 112.82 0 6 39 44 lbw b Muralitharan Rahul Dravid 40.00 0 0 5 2 b Morkel Roelof van der Merwe 137.14 0 7 35 48 b Jakati Manish Pandey 128.57 0 2 7 9 c P Patel Jacques Kallis SR Sixes Fours Balls Runs IPL Bangalore innings

10. http://webumpire.blogspot.com 16.80 0 1 0 14 0 0.5 Jacob Oram 8.00 0 0 0 16 0 2.0 Lakshmipathy Balaji 3.75 0 0 1 15 0 4.0 Muttiah Muralitharan 7.67 0 0 0 23 0 3.0 Suresh Raina 7.25 0 0 1 29 0 4.0 Shadab Jakati 11.00 0 1 1 33 0 3.0 Manpreet Gony 8.00 0 0 1 16 0 2.0 Albie Morkel Eco Wide No Wkts Runs M Overs Bowler IPL Chennai Bollowing

12. MAN OF THE MATCH Manish Pandey