RCB striking at the right time

This was the third time the Deccan Chargers encountered the Royal Challengers Bangalore when both of them needless to be said lost in the semi finals. Both had to ensure that they didn't fall behind in atleast making it to the Champions League T20 tournament to be held later this year. For the second time in succession, the Deccan Chargers were found to choke, first when they lost Friday's second semi finals against the Chennai Superkings when all odds had termed the Adam Gilchrist led Deccan Chargers to move to the finals. And now, they lost to a team against which they had won on previous two occasions.

In the earlier two occasions, the Deccan Chargers came from nowhere to win the match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore. First, the Deccan Chargers successfully chased down a huge total in excess of 180 by losing just 3 wickets enroute to the same. A total of 184 put up by the Royal Challengers posed absolutely no problems to the Deccan Chargers. And then, in the second time when the teams faced each other at Nagpur 4 days later, once again a total of 151 was more than enough for the Deccan Chargers to defend and more than enough for the RCB to fall short of.

Coincidentally, the Deccan Chargers had won their previous two encounters against the finalists - Chennai Superkings first when they beat them at their home ground Chennai by 31 runs after piling up 190 runs on the board. And secondly, at Nagpur the Deccan Chargers well in anticipation went past the total of 138 imposed by the Chennai Superkings. So, the Deccan Chargers have beaten both Bangalore and Chennai, first on their home ground and then in Nagpur before losing to the same in the knock out matches namely the semi finals against the Chennai Superkings and in the third play off against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

This is one such feat which I think is worth noting down. One of the highlight of the match was the after a long time, Jacques Kallis went past Sachin Tendulkar considering the number of runs scored by both batsmen in this year's IPL. However, there is every possibility of that being broken when Sachin Tendulkar would take on the Chennai Superkings in the finals which should happen in just a few hours from now. As it has been the case earlier as well, the fortune is found to favor the Royal Challengers Bangalore when unexpectedly they won their last chance to make it to the Champions League.