Manish Pandey scored a brilliant century that helped Royal Challengers Bangalore to defeat in-form Deccan Chargers by 12 runs in the last league match played at Centurion on Thursday (May 21). The nineteen-year-old batsman became the first Indian batsman to score a century in the second edition of IPL. Manish Pandey amassed 114 runs in just 73 balls and guided his team to post a total of 170 runs in 20 overs. His power-packed innings was studded with 10 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from him, young Virat Kholi (19 off 9) also played a good hand in the last over. 

Chasing 171 to win, Deccan Chargers got off to a flying start with skipper Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs putting on to an opening partnership of 68 runs in just 6.5 overs. Gibbs continued his assault even after the dismissal of Gilchrist (15) at the hands of B Akil. The South African hurricane blasted 60 off 43 balls before getting out to the same bowler . After Gibb's dismissal, the Hyderabad team got further blows by losing Andrew Symonds (18), Venugopal Rao (8) and Rohit Sharma (12) in quick succession.