Related Link : DLF Indian Premier League 2009
| Venue : Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town (Day/Night) |
| Toss : Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first |
| Umpires : Mark Benson (Eng) and Billy Doctrove (WI) |
| Match Result : Deccan Chargers won by 8 wickets |
| Man of the Match : RP Singh |
| Total : 101 all out | Overs : 19.4 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 20 Overs Maximum | R | B | 4s | 6s |
| B McCullum (C&WK) | c Gilchrist b RP Singh | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Gayle | c Harmit Singh b RP Singh | 10 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| Sourav Ganguly | c Laxman b Harmit Singh | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Brad Hodge | c Gibbs b Styris | 31 | 34 | 4 | 0 |
| Aakash Chopra | st Gilchrist b Ojha | 11 | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| LR Shukla | st Gilchrist b Ojha | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Moises Henriques | c Rohit Sharma b Styris | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Ajit Agarkar | run out (Rohit Sharma) | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Murali Kartik | not out | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Ishant Sharma | b RP Singh | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Ashok Dinda | b RP Singh | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wides : 1 | No Balls: 0 | Byes: 0 | Leg Byes: 4 | Extras: 5 |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-1 (McCullum, 1.1 ovs), 2-12 (Gayle, 3.4 ovs), 3-16 (Ganguly, 5.2 ovs), 4-34 (Chopra, 10.4 ovs), 5-48 (Shukla, 12.2 ovs), 6-72 (Hodge, 15.3 ovs), 7-73 (Henriques, 15.5 ovs), 8-81 (Agarkar, 16.3 ovs), 9-99 (Rohit Sharma, 19.2 ovs), 10-101 (Dinda, 19.4 ovs) |
Deccan Chargers |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wd |
Nb |
| Fidel Edwards | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| RP Singh | 3.4 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Harmit Singh | 4 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ojha | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Styris | 4 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total : 104/2 | Overs : 13.1 |
| Deccan Chargers | Target : 102 from 20 Overs | R | B | 4s | 6s |
| Adam Gilchrist (C&WK) | c Henriques b Dinda | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| Herschelle Gibbs | not out | 43 | 26 | 5 | 1 |
| VVS Laxman | run out (Shukla/McCullum) | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| Rohit Sharma | not out | 36 | 32 | 3 | 2 |
| Scott Styris | |||||
| Y Venugopal Rao | |||||
| DB Ravi Teja | |||||
| RP Singh | |||||
| Pragyan Ojha | |||||
| Harmeet Singh | |||||
| Fidel Edwards |
| Wides : 1 | No Balls: 0 | Byes: 1 | Leg Byes: 8 | Extras: 2 |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-24 (Gilchrist, 2.5 ovs), 2-35 (Laxman, 4.5 ovs) |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wd |
Nb |
| Dinda | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ishant Sharma | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kartik | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ganguly | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Agarkar | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Gayle | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Henriques | 0.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |