Date – 24 April 2009
In an encounter between Kings Punjab and Bangalore Royal Challengers, Preity Zinta’s man routed Mallaya’s Challengers and won the match comfortably by 7 wickets. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat and posted a good competitive total of 169 for winning the match. Kings XI opener gave them a solid start and Bopara scored 85 runs of just 59 balls. All batsmen of top order contributed and had strike rate equal to or greater than 100. In the end it was a cakewalk for Kings XI and they won the match in style by hitting 6 and reaching 173/3 in 19 overs.

Preity Zinta was seen very happy with the team performance.

Man of the match: R Bopara