Durban:The Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets with one ball to spare in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Kingsmead today.

Chasing Kolkata’s 139-6, opener Shreevats Goswami top-scored with 43 and Mark Boucher (25 not out) hit the winning runs from the penultimate ball to take Bangalore to 143-5.

Bangalore got off to a flying start, Goswami and Jacques Kallis (23) putting on 69 for the first wicket. Goswami blasted six fours from his 46-ball innings. He was dismissed in the 12th over attempting to sweep off Brad Hodge. Hodge was the pick of the bowlers for Kolkata with 3-29, while Ishant Sharma claimed 2-15.

Earlier, Morne Van Wyk top-scored with an unbeaten 43 and opener Chris Gayle scored 40 to guide the Kolkata Knight Riders to 139. Bangalore opened their bowling with spin, Pietersen taking the new ball with South Africa left-arm spinner Roelof van der Merwe, and it paid off.

Pietersen removed the McCullum with the first ball as he looked to hit a slower delivery and was caught by Virat Kohli at backward point. Pietersen, who now leaves the IPL to joing his England teammates for a series against the West Indies, was fulsome in his praise for the tournament.

On Tuesday, Yusuf Pathan was the 62-run hero as title holders Rajasthan Royals defeated Delhi Daredevils by five wickets. Although Delhi team boasting a perfect record from three outings made only a modest 143-7, they held a slender edge until the closing overs of the Rajasthan innings.

Pathan hit consecutive sixes in the 13th over, repeated the feat later and hit the boundary that lifted Rajasthan to 147-5 in 18.3 overs and their second victory in five outings.

In trouble at 64-5 when captain and Australia legend Shane Warne was

an unhappy stumping victim for a duck, Royals deperately needed saviours and found them in Pathan and South Africa captain Graeme Smith. Quickfire Pathan struck six sixes and three fours in his 30-ball spell while the unbeaten 44 of the more cautious Smith included five fours. Ashish Mishra was the most successful Delhi bowler with 3-34.

Opting to bat, Delhi lost the wickets of openers Gautam Gambhir (8) and Virender Sehwag (16) to Dimitri Mascarenhas in the third over and were indebted to South African AB de Villiers. He struck one six and five fours off 40 balls before being trapped leg before by Warne having completed his half century.

Manuf Patel (2-14) returned the most impressive figures in the Rajasthan attack with Mascarenhas (2-28) and inspirational leader Warne (2-32) also making significant contributions.