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2009 IPL's top team in points table, Bangalore Royal Challengers and last year runner up Chennai Super Kings will meet for the 5th match of the Indian Premier League on Monday, 20th April, 2009 at Port Elizabeth in the only match of the day starting from from from 16.30pm, 14.30GMT, 8.00 PM IST.

Chennai Super Kings lost in the close match against Mumbai Indians in the 1st match and they have to bounce back in order to alive in the series. Albie Morkal and Muralitharan will come back to strengthen the attack.

Bangalore Royal Challengers is leading the table after big win against Rajasthan Royals in the 1st match and looking good after the inclusion of Kevin Pietersen and Jesse Ryder. Two oldies Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble preformed well with 61 runs and 5 wickets for 5 runs respectively.

Interesting this is that 2009 IPL's costliest players and England team mates Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff will face each other in this game.

Chennai Super Kings Playing 11, Team (Likely)

Matthew Hayden, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), S Badrinath, Andrew Flintoff, Albie Morkel, L Balaji, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Bangalore Royal Challengers Playing 11, Team, Squad (Likely)

Jesse Ryder, Robin Uthappa, Kevin Pietersen, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Roelof van der Werwe, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Praveen Kumar, Anil Kumble, Dale Steyn, Pankaj Singh.

Deccan Chargers put behind their last year's performance where they finished last and got a winning start of the 2009 Indian Premier League - IPL season by beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets on Sunday, 19th April, 2009 at Cape Town.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and electedto bat but new captain Brandon Mccullum and Chris Gayle gone early followed by former captain Gaunguly and bundled out on 101 in 19.4 overs. RP Singh took 4 wickets.

In reply Deccan Chargers reached the target thanks to Heschell Gibbs and Rohit Sharma contributed contributed unbeaten 43 off 26 balls and 36 off 32 balls respectively.

Match Summary:
Kolkata Knight Riders - 101 all out in 19.4 overs.
Deccan Chargers - 104/2 in 13.1 overs.
Toss - Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to bat first.
Man of the Match - RP Singh (Deccan Chargers)
Result - Deccan Chargers won by 8 wickets (with 41 balls remaining)

2009 IPL favorite Delhi Daredevils started their journey with a bang as they beat Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets with 7 balls remaining in a rain shortened match on Sunday, 19th April, 2009 at Cape Town.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first in a match shortened of 12 overs a side and restricted Kings XI Punjab to 104/7 after they got a good start by Bopara and Goeal added 67 in 6 overs, but Daniel Vettori after break took 3 wickets for 15 runs.

Delhi Daredevils chasing a target of 105 in 12 overs were 24/0 in 1.5 overs before rain interpreted again and they got a revised target of 54 runs in 6 overs which they got easily with 7 balls remaining as Sehwag hit 38 runs of just 16 balls.

Match Summary:
Kings XI Punjab - 104/7 in 12 overs.
Delhi Daredevils - 58/0 in 4.5 Overs.
Toss - Delhi Daredevils, who chose to field first.
Man of the Match - Daniel Vettori (Delhi Daredevils)
Result - Delhi Daredevils won by 10 wickets (with 7 balls remaining) (D/L method)