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| Venue | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai on 12th April 2012 (20-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets |
| Points | Chennai Super Kings 2; Royal Challengers Bangalore 0 |
| Umpires | HDPK Dharmasena (Sri Lanka), RJ Tucker (Australia) |
| TV umpire | S Ravi |
| Referee | S Mukherjee |
| Reserve Umpire | K Srinath |
| Man of the Match | F du Plessis |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MA Agarwal | c Bravo b Morkel | 45 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 173.08 | |
| CH Gayle | c Bravo b Jadeja | 68 | 35 | 2 | 6 | 194.29 | |
| V Kohli | c du Plessis b Bollinger | 57 | 46 | 5 | 2 | 123.91 | |
| +AB de Villiers | c Jakati b Morkel | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 200.00 | |
| SS Tiwary | c Raina b Jadeja | 8 | 6 | 1 | - | 133.33 | |
| RR Bhatkal | c Raina b Bollinger | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| CA Pujara | b Bollinger | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| *DL Vettori | run out (Bollinger) | 1 | 1 | - | - | 100.00 | |
| R Vinay Kumar | not out | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 600.00 | |
| Z Khan | not out | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 14 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-53 (Agarwal, 5.2 ov), 2-162 (Gayle, 16.2 ov), 3-174 (de Villiers, 17.2 ov), 4-198 (Tiwary, 18.6 ov), 5-198 (Kohli, 19.1 ov), 6-198 (Pujara, 19.2 ov), 7-199 (Vettori, 19.4 ov), 8-199 (Bhatkal, 19.5 ov) | |||||||
| Chennai Super Kings bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ashwin | 4 | 0 | 46 | 0 | - | - | - | 11.50 |
| Bollinger | 3 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 1 | - | 6.00 | 8.00 |
| Morkel | 4 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 4 | - | 12.00 | 9.25 |
| Bravo | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 7.50 |
| Raina | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 21.00 |
| Jakati | 2 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 13.50 |
| Jadeja | 2 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 2 | - | 6.00 | 9.00 |
| Chennai Super Kings innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| M Vijay | c and b Muralitharan | 11 | 15 | 1 | - | 73.33 | |
| F du Plessis | c Kohli b Muralitharan | 71 | 46 | 5 | 4 | 154.35 | |
| SK Raina | c Bhatkal b Muralitharan | 23 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 164.29 | |
| *+MS Dhoni | c sub (TM Dilshan) b Khan | 41 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 170.83 | |
| DJ Bravo | not out | 25 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 166.67 | |
| JA Morkel | c Agarwal b Vinay Kumar | 28 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 400.00 | |
| RA Jadeja | not out | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 400.00 | |
| S Badrinath | did not bat | ||||||
| R Ashwin | did not bat | ||||||
| SB Jakati | did not bat | ||||||
| DE Bollinger | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs) | 208 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-56 (Vijay, 6.5 ov), 2-88 (Raina, 10.3 ov), 3-128 (du Plessis, 14.3 ov), 4-163 (Dhoni, 17.6 ov), 5-192 (Morkel, 19.2 ov) | |||||||
| Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vettori | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.50 |
| Khan | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 8.00 |
| Vinay Kumar | 4 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24.00 | 13.25 |
| Bhatkal | 2 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 17.50 |
| Muralitharan | 4 | 0 | 21 | 3 | - | - | 8.00 | 5.25 |
| Kohli | 2 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | - | 18.00 |