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As the second season of the IPL coincided with multi-phase 2009 Indian general elections, in the aftermath of the 3 March 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team the Government of India refused to commit security by Indian paramilitary forces. As a result, the BCCI decided to host the second season of the league outside India. [5]
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.
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]
IPL was established in 2008 [6] and currently consists of ten teams in ten cities across India. The inaugural IPL season was won by Rajasthan Royals . [ 10 ] As of 2024 [update] , there have been seventeen seasons of the IPL tournament.
The team was created in 2009 by the Deccan Chronicle group and played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) until 2013. The idea of starting a cricket team under the banner of Deccan Chronicle was first discussed on 11 November 2008 at a meeting with BCCI officials by K. K. Tiwari, Editor-in-chief of the newspaper and its owner T.Venkat Ram Reddy.
Gilchrist was the team's leading run scorer with 1,289 runs while Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma were the only batsmen to have scored more than 1,000 runs for the team. [15] White's batting average of 38.86 was the highest for the DC while Shahid Afridi had the best strike rate at 176.08 among players who have batted in over five innings for the team.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the national governing body of cricket in India. T20 cricket is a shorter format of the game, with each team playing a single innings of 20 overs.
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. They were captained by Kevin Pietersen. Royal Challengers Bangalore finished runners-up in the IPL and qualified for the ...