The match kicked-off with Deccan Chargers having an access to bat first in spite of Royal Challengers winning the toss at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Shikar Dhawan was struck down by Zaheer in the latter’s initial spells. Captain Sangakara stepped down to play a responsible game contributing 36 runs of 25 balls to the total The same strategy was adopted by Chipli (61 off 35) maintaing a stable partnership with Sanga and eventually sweeping more runs. Royal Challengers’ Zaheer, who took 3 wickets and Van Der Wath helped out their team by controlling the pace deceptively conferring Deccan Chargers 175 runs as total.

Royals’ Agarwal and Dilshan entered in the scene to respond to Deccan’s seamers. Not only were they failed to whip the bowlers to boundaries, but the team could not sustain their wickets. Goni and Steyn had put the pressure to the batsmen, Ab De Villers and Zaheer Khan, and got them dismissed at duck. Tiwary, next in line, associated with his partner Kohli to play a sensible game that ended when Mishra spun the ball correctly to reach to the wicketkeeper Sanga. Kohli did play certain big ones that let him to score 71 runs off 51 balls but got clean bowled by Goni at the end of the finishing overs. This made their defeat certain.