Date – 19 April 2009

Pacer RP Singh four wicket haul helped Deccan Chargers to have a 8 wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders. Newly appointed captain Brendon McCullum for Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first. RP Singh restrict Knight Riders to 101 runs in 19.4 overs. He took four wickets for 22 runs in his 3.4 overs. In reply to non-competitive total Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma taste the victory in 13.1 overs. Herschelle Gibbs was not out at 43 runs and ROhit Sharma scored 36 runs in 32 balls. It was a perfect start of season for Deccan Chargers.

Man of The Match – RP Singh

Playing XI -

DC – Adam Gilchrist (C) (W), Herschelle Gibbs, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Fidel Edwards, Harmeet Singh

KKR – Brendon McCullum (C) (W), Chris Gayle, Sourav Ganguly, Brad Hodge, Aakash Chopra, Moises Henriques, Laxmi Shukla, Ajit Agarkar, Murali Kartik, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda