Related Link : DLF Indian Premier League 2009
| Venue : New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg |
| Toss : Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field first |
| Umpires : S Ravi (Ind) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) |
| Match Result : Deccan Chargers won by 6 wickets |
| Man of the Match : Rohit Sharma |
| Total : 160/5 | Overs : 20.0 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 20 Overs Maximum | R | B | 4s | 6s |
| B McCullum (C) | c Suman b Harris | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| Sourav Ganguly | c Harris b Rohit Sharma | 33 | 41 | 3 | 0 |
| Brad Hodge | c Harmeet Singh b Harris | 48 | 41 | 5 | 0 |
| David Hussey | run out (Gilchrist) | 43 | 17 | 2 | 4 |
| Wriddaman Saha (WK) | c RP Singh b Symonds | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | not out | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ajit Agarkar | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yashpal Singh | |||||
| Murali Kartik | |||||
| Shoaib Shaikh | |||||
| Ishant Sharma |
| Wides : 2 | No Balls: 2 | Byes: 1 | Leg Byes: 2 | Extras: 7 |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-27 (McCullum, 4.3 ovs), 2-85 (Ganguly, 14.5 ovs), 3-117 (Hodge, 17.5 ovs), 4-152 (Saha, 19.2 ovs), 5-158 (Hussey, 19.4 ovs) |
Deccan Chargers |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wd |
Nb |
| Harris | 4 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| RP Singh | 3.1 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Symonds | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Harmeet Singh | 3.5 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pragyan Ojha | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rohit Sharma | 2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total : 166/4 | Overs : 20.0 |
| Deccan Chargers | Target : 161 from 20 Overs | R | B | 4s | 6s |
| Adam Gilchrist (C&WK) | c sub (LR Shukla) b Hodge | 43 | 31 | 5 | 2 |
| Herschelle Gibbs | c Hussey b Kartik | 28 | 34 | 3 | 0 |
| T Suman | run out (Hodge/Agarkar) | 31 | 24 | 3 | 1 |
| Andrew Symonds | run out (Mashrafe Mortaza) | 18 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| Rohit Sharma | not out | 32 | 13 | 3 | 2 |
| Y Venugopal Rao | not out | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| DB Ravi Teja | |||||
| Ryan Harris | |||||
| RP Singh | |||||
| Pragyan Ojha | |||||
| Harmeet Singh |
| Wides : 2 | No Balls: 2 | Byes: 1 | Leg Byes: 2 | Extras: 7 |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-68 (Gilchrist, 9.2 ovs), 2-85 (Gibbs, 12.3 ovs), 3-116 (Suman, 16.2 ovs), 4-128 (Symonds, 16.6 ovs) |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wd |
Nb |
| Ishant Sharma | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | 4 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kartik | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hodge | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Agarkar | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hussey | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |