Dravid and Pandey carry Bangalore to finals

Dhoni probably missed a trick by not bringing on Muralitharan earlier on. The body language of the CSK was not upto the mark as RCB raced away to the finish. It is the 5th win on the trot for RCB and they have all the momentum going into the final tomorrow.

It was a stunning performance from the RCB side as they outplayed the CSK. Manish Pandey carried on from his previous innings as he played a blinder to set it up for RCB. Dravid brought all his experience to the fore as he complemented Pandey stroke for stroke. Then Ross Taylor and Virat Kohli finished it off magnificently.

Which Indian cricketer said this - "I never thought that being fat was a negative point, I dont want to lose weight for the sake of it, to look like a model"?
And in a rather surprising turnaround, the two bottom-placed teams from IPL 2008, Bangalore and Hyderabad are the finalists this year. Who would have thought?
Mallya is ecstatic, the RCB squad members run out onto the field as a dejected MS Dhoni walks away!

Manish Pandey: This is my second game I am performing and really happy for that. The pitch was stopping a little bit, but Anil Bhai gave me the license to go out there and play my natural game.The game plan against Murali was to work it around and give Rahul Bhai the strike. Waiting for the final tomorrow and hopefully we will win.

Anil Kumble: One more win will be nice tomorrow. We regrouped after the strategy break when they were 75/1. 146 on this wicket was not even a par score, we really bowled well. Manish batted brilliantly, that is the way the current youngsters bat, they back themselves to go out there and clear the boundary. To give away only 3 boundaries in the last 7 overs against such a batting line-up is brilliant.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni: They played better cricket than us. We were looking for a score around 160, but me and Raina got out at the wrong time. We were short by 15 runs. Overall disappointed, but they outplayed us. Our bowling department was a bit fragile right through the tournament.

Manish Pandey is the Man of the Match for the second consecutive time for his blinder at the top.