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Last year at the bottom, Deccan chargers made a remarkable comeback. They defeated the Bangalore Royal Challengers by 6 runs in an exciting match to win the IPL title.

The highest scorer for the Deccan Chargers was Herschelle Gibbs, with 53 runs. He smashed three boundaries and hit 2 sixes. Anil kumble earlier took 4 wickets for the Royal Challengers and restricted the Deccan Chargers for 144. Poor batting from the Royal Challengers saw them losing the mach. They lost wickets at regular intervals which made the task even more difficult. The last six overs saw them losing 5 wickets.  The man of the match was given to Anil kumble.

The DLF Golden Player of the League was awarded to Adam Gilchrist. The Orange cap winner award was given to Matthew Hayden of Chennai super kings. The Purple Cap winner was Rudra Pratap Singh of Deccan Chargers. The Under -23 Player of the league was Rohit Sharma.

The closing ceremony was a star studded event with Katrina Kaif and Akon performing and the crowd going crazy.

The first battle between the Indian Premier League vs the Indian Political League was won by Politics as the IPL moved to the South africa. But as the IPL now airs on TV the war better the two IPL’s continue as the air time on TV gets divided between cricket and politics.

So who is winning the war?
Data released by viewership rating companies indicates more people watched the developments in the political arena than cricket on the first two days of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

IPL weekend ratings were 3.5  while political news did better with 3.6 according to data from Audience Measurement and Analytics (aMAP) of the six metros. In 2008, 70 lakh people watched T20 matches on the first two days compared to 56 lakh this year.

So all in all cricket seems to be losing the battle with politics. There could be only two reasons for this.. Either Indians have become politically concious or the political mud slinging is far more interesting than mindless slogging in cricket. For the sake of the countries future we hope its the political conciousness.

The 4th match of the IPL was  a very low scoring game with SRK’s Knight Riders just being able to set a target of 104 runs in the alloted 20 overs. Deccan chargers won the match comfortably with 8 wickets to spare.

Watch the match highlights below: