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Deccan win IPL:

Kumble heroics not enough

Runs on the board proved the key, Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist said after his team beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in the Indian Premier League final at Wanderers Stadium Sunday.

Even though Deccan were restricted to 143 for six - mainly due to a superb bowling performance by Bangalore captain Anil Kumble - it was just enough as a slow pitch, a lack of substantial partnerships and the pressure of a final combined against Challengers, who could manage only 137 for nine.

“It could have gone either way,” admitted Gilchrist, who was named player of the tournament.

Deccan finished last in the first IPL in India in 2008, with Bangalore second from the bottom.

Kumble, named man of the match for taking four for 16, said he was proud of his team for winning five games in a row to reach the final.

Leg-spinner Kumble opened the bowling after sending Deccan in and dismissed danger man Gilchrist with his third ball.

Fresh from his match-winning innings of 85 off 35 balls against Delhi Daredevils in the semi-final on Friday, Gilchrist showed impatience after failing to score off the first two deliveries from Kumble.

He charged down the pitch to the third ball but failed to read a googly which went past his bat into the stumps.

Mission accomplished, Kumble took himself off, but came back into the attack in the ninth over and ended a promising innings by Symonds, who hit 33 off 21 balls.

Once again Kumble took himself off, with figures of two for five from two overs.

He returned to dismiss Rohit Sharma, who was named Indian under-23 player of the tournament, and Venugopal Rao.

But Herschelle Gibbs batted through the innings to make an unbeaten 53. Gibbs was unable to dominate the bowling and did not get enough of the strike, facing only 48 of the 120 balls of the innings.

But his innings proved crucial. At the mid-innings break he had scored only 13 off 22 balls. Bangalore made a cautious start but Roelof van der Merwe, sent in as a pinch hitter at number three, gave the innings impetus with a typical mixture of wild swings and solid hits.

He hit two sixes off Ryan Harris and another off Symonds before he was stumped off Ojha for 32 off 21 balls.

Despite the loss of Dravid, bowled by Harmeet Singh when he tried to flick the ball to leg, Bangalore looked to be cruising to victory until Taylor and Kohli fell off successive balls.

Taylor top-edged a pull to long leg and Kohli was superbly stumped down the leg side by Gilchrist.

Mark Boucher cut Harmeet Singh to South African team-mate Gibbs at backward point and suddenly Bangalore needed 37 off 25 balls with only three wickets left.

It proved too many.

Deccan Chargers

A. Gilchrist b Kumble 			 0 
H. Gibbs not out 			53 
T. Suman c Pandey b V. Kumar 		10 
A. Symonds b Kumble 			33 
R. Sharma c Pandey b Kumble 		24 
Y. Venugopal Rao lbw b V. Kumar 	 0 
A. Bilakhia lbw b V. Kumar 		 6 
R. Harris not out 			 9 

Extras (lb2, w6) 			 8 
otal (6 wkts, 20 overs) 		143 

Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Gilchrist), 2-18 (Suman), 3-58 (Symonds), 4-110 (Sharma), 5-115 (Venugopal Rao), 6-134 (Bilakhia)
Did not bat: P. Ojha, Harmeet Singh, R.P. Singh.
Bowling: Kumble 4-0-16-4, P. Kumar 4-0-43-0 (w5), Kallis 4-0-24-0, V. Kumar 4-0-30-2 (w3), Van der Merwe 4-0-28-0.

Royal Challengers Bangalore 
J. Kallis b R.P. Singh 			16 
M. Pandey c Gilchrist b Ojha 		 4 
R. van der Merwe st Gilchrist b Ojha 	32 
R. Dravid b Harmeet Singh 		 9 	
R. Taylor c Venugopal Rao b Symonds	27 
V. Kohli st Gilchrist b Symonds 	 7 
M. Boucher c Gibbs b Harmeet Singh 	 5 
R. Uthappa not out 			17 
P. Kumar c R.P. Singh b Ojha 		 2 
V. Kumar c Harmeet Singh b Harris	 8
A. Kumble not out 			 1 

Extras (lb8, w1) 			 9 
Total (9wkts, 20 overs)			137 	 
Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Kallis), 2-36 (Pandey), 3-57 (Van der Merwe), 4-79 (Dravid),
	 5-99 (Taylor), 6-99 (Kohli), 7-107 (Boucher), 8-110 (P. Kumar), 9-129 (V. Kumar).
Bowling: Harris 4-1-35-1 (w1), R.P. Singh 4-0-16-1, Symonds 3-0-18-2, Ojha 4-0-28-3, Harmeet Singh 4-0-23-2, Sharma 1-0-9-0.

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