Related Link : DLF Indian Premier League 2009
| Venue : Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, Durban |
| Toss : Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field first |
| Umpires : Russell Tiffin (Zim) and Simon Taufel (Aus) |
| Match Result : Kolkata Knight Riders won by 4 wickets |
| Man of the Match : LR Shukla |
| Total : 101/9 | Overs : 20.0 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 20 Overs Maximum | R | B | 4s | 6s |
| Naman Ojha (WK) | c Shaikh b Langeveldt | 22 | 12 | 0 | 3 |
| Robert Quiney | c Shaikh b Langeveldt | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Swapnil Asnodkar | run out (Dinda) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Niraj Patel | c Ganguly b Langeveldt | 14 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| Johan Botha | b Agarkar | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Yusuf Pathan | run out (Shukla) | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | b Sarkar | 14 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
|
Tyron Henderson |
run out (Hussey) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Shane Warne (C) | b Agarkar | 18 | 29 | 1 | 0 |
| Munaf Patel | not out | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Amit Singh | not out | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wides : 3 | No Balls: 0 | Byes: 0 | Leg Byes: 2 | Extras: 5 |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-22 (Quiney, 1.1 ovs), 2-28 (Asnodkar, 2.5 ovs), 3-28 (Ojha, 3.3 ovs), 4-42 (Botha, 5.3 ovs), 5-59 (Niraj Patel, 9.2 ovs), 6-62 (Pathan, 10.5 ovs), 7-62 (Henderson, 11.2 ovs), 8-92 (Jadeja, 17.2 ovs), 9-99 (Warne, 19.3 ovs) |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wd |
Nb |
| Hodge | 1 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Langeveldt | 4 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Ashok Dinda | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Agarkar | 4 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sarkar | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Laxmi Ratan Shukla | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total : 102/6 | Overs : 19.3 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Target : 102 from 20 Overs | R | B | 4s | 6s |
| B McCullum (C) | lbw b Amit Singh | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Sourav Ganguly | c Jadeja b Munaf Patel | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Brad Hodge | st Ojha b Botha | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Yashpal Singh | c Quiney b Munaf Patel | 6 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| David Hussey | c Niraj Patel b Botha | 9 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| LR Shukla | not out | 48 | 46 | 3 | 2 |
| Shoaib Sheikh (WK) | run out (Pathan/Botha) | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Ajit Agarkar | not out | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Sourav Sarkar | |||||
| Charl Langeveldt | |||||
| Ashok Dinda |
| Wides : 1 | No Balls: 1 | Byes: 2 | Leg Byes: 1 | Extras: 5 |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-9 (Ganguly, 0.6 ovs), 2-9 (McCullum, 1.1 ovs), 3-21 (Yashpal Singh, 4.6 ovs), 4-30 (Hodge, 7.1 ovs), 5-37 (Hussey, 9.1 ovs), 6-45 (Shaikh, 11.3 ovs) |
Rajasthan Royals |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wd |
Nb |
| Munaf Patel | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Amit Singh | 3.3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Botha | 4 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Warne | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Jadeja | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Henderson | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |