The final of the second edition of the Indian Premier League tournament provided all the thrills to a packed house at the Wanderers as Adam Gilchrist led Deccan Charges won the trophy beating South Indian rivals Bangalore Royal Challengers by eight runs.

After a pathetic display in the inaugural edition of the tournament, the two teams qualified for the finals after a much better performance this season. Although Bangalore Royal Challengers started off in disastrous fashion losing four successive games, they managed to qualify for the semi-finals with a committed effort in the second half of the competition.

Then in the semi-final they beat the fancied Chennai Super Kings while Deccan Chargers beat Delhi Daredevils the top team at the league stage.

After putting the opposition in, Bangalore got off to a dream start when captain Anil Kumble foxed danger man Gilchirst off the third ball of the innings.

Herschelle Gibbs held the Deccan Chargers innings together with an unbeaten 53 off 48 balls with three boundaries and two sixes.

He was backed up by Andrew Symonds, who hit 33 in 21 balls with four boundaries and two sixes while Rohit Sharma chipped in with 24.

Kumble, the former Indian captain was the most successful bowler picking up four wickets for 16 runs in his four overs as Deccan Chargers were restricted for 143 for six in 20 overs.

But that proved to be sufficient as Royal Challengers fell short by six runs in the run chase.

Royal Challengers never looked to be in the run chase as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals and disciplined bowling by Deccan Chargers made the target look a stiff one. Left arm spinner Pragyan Ojha was the most successful bowler picking up three for 28 in his four overs. He was backed up by Hameet Singh and Andrew Symonds, who picked up two wickets each.

Roelof van der Merwe with 32 runs in 21 balls and Ross Taylor with 27 in 20 balls kept the Royal Challengers interested for a while, but with the lack of any significant partnerships they were playing catch up.

Royal Challengers needed 15 runs off the last over bowled by R. P. Singh with the last pair in the middle.

Kumble sneaked a run off the first ball giving Robin Uthappa the strike, but the second and third deliveries were dot balls and although he managed a couple off the next ball and a boundary off the fifth delivery leaving eight runs off the last ball and all what R.P. Singh needed to do was to refrain from bowling a no ball to secure the title for Deccan Chargers.

A. Gilchrist b Kumble 0

H. Gibbs not out 53

T. Suman c Pandey b Vinay Kumar 10

A. Symonds b Kumble 33

R. Sharma c Pandey b Kumble 24

V. Rao c Taylor b Kumble 0

A. Bilakhia lbw b Vinay Kumar 6

R. Harris not out 9

Extras: (lb 2, w 6) 8

Overs: 20

Did not bat: P. Ojha, Harmeet Singh, R.P. Singh.

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-18, 3-58, 4-110, 5-115, 6-134.

Bowling: Kumble 4-0-16-4, Praveen Kumar 4-0-43-0 (5w), Kallis 4-0-24-0. Vinay Kumar 4-0-30-2 (1w), van der Merwe 4-0-28-0.

Royal Challengers

J. Kallis b Singh 16

M. Pandey c Gilchrist b Ojha 4

R. van der Merwe st Gilchrist b Ojha 32

R. Dravid b H. Singh 9

R. Taylor c Venugopal Rao b Symonds 27

V. Kohli st Gilchrist b Symonds 7

M. Boucher c Gibbs b H. Singh 5

R. Uthappa not out 17

P. Kumar c Singh b Ojha 2

R. Vinay Kumar c H. Singh b Harris 8

A. Kumble not out 1

Extras: (lb 8, w 1) 9

Total: for nine wickets 137

Overs: 20

Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-36, 3-57, 4-79, 5-99, 6-99, 7-107, 8-110, 9-129.

Bowling: Harris 4-1-35-1 (1w), R.P. Singh 4-0-16-1, Symonds 3-0-18-2, Ojha 4-0-28-3, Harmeet Singh 4-0-23-2, R. Sharma 1-0-9-0.

Toss: Royal Challengers.

Series: Deccan Chargers.

Player of the match: A. Kumble.

Umpires: R. Koertzen and S. Taufel.

TV umpire: D. Harper.

Match Referee: J. Srinath.