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The 2009 Indian Premier League final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match played between the Deccan Chargers and the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 24 May 2009 at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg to determine the winner of the 2009 Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India.
The 2009 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 2 or the 2009 IPL, was the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament was hosted by South Africa and was played between 18 [1] April and 24 May 2009. [2]
[13] [18] The winner of this subsequent Qualifier 2 match moves onto the final match. [18] The team that wins the final match is crowned the Indian Premier League champion. [18] Altogether, thirteen teams have played in the past ten seasons of the IPL tournament. [19] [20] [21] Of these, three teams are no longer a part of the tournament. [22]
The 2009 Indian Premier League Players Auction was held on 6 February 2009 in Goa, India. A total of 43 players from 9 countries were shortlisted for the auction. However, only 17 of them were sold. [8] The English duo of Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff each went for US$1.55 million, which made them the highest-paid cricketers in the IPL.
Rohit Sharma took the first-ever hat-trick for the Deccan Chargers in the group-stage match against the Mumbai Indians in the 2009 IPL [57] [103] Adam Gilchrist scored the fastest half century of the IPL in the semi-final match against the Delhi Daredevils. [5] [104] Most dot balls bowled in the 2009 IPL : R. P. Singh (169) [105]
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) is a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2009 Indian Premier League .
Stephen Fleming, who had decided to retire from all forms of the game after the first season of the IPL, took over as the coach of the Super Kings team from Kepler Wessels. Their batting department was further weakened as Michael Hussey decided to skip the season in order to focus on international cricket ahead of the Ashes .
The semi-final loss meant Delhi did not contest the final of the 2009 IPL season, despite having the best record in the league stages. However, Delhi managed to qualify for the now-defunct 2009 Champions League Twenty20 as a result of their performance in the group stage.