Port Elizabath: Maintaining the momentum would be Bangalore Royal Challengers' aim while Chennai Super Kings would seek to shrug off the hangover of their first match defeat when the teams cross sword in the second Indian Premier League cricket tournament here on Monday.

Under their new captain Kevin Pietersen, the Bangalore outfit made a statement of sort on Saturday when they humbled defending champions Rajasthan Royals by a whopping 75 runs, announcing they are ready to shed the laggard's tag they earned last year.

Interestingly, Pietersen owes the morale-boosting win largely to the person he replaced at the top and Rahul Dravid stood testimony to the fact that a player need not be ugly and go bang-bang all along to succeed in the Twenty20 format.

Dravid's cultured 66 was the cornerstone of the Bangalore innings against Rajasthan Royals while Pietersen contributed his mite as well.

But from the team point of view, Jesse Ryder, Robin Uthappa and Ross Taylor failed to make early impressions and Pietersen would hope that the trio would come all guns blazing on Monday.

Fortunately, there seems no such worry in the bowling department where Anil Kumble, like Dravid, proved that Twenty20 is not necessarily a youngster's game and experience has no alternative.

Kumble's five-for against the Rajasthan Royals proved that the seasoned leggie may have retired from international cricket but he is still good enough to make life difficult for any batsman.

Praveen Kumar and Dale Steyn did an excellent job in the pace department while Jesse Ryder's military medium pace also proved effective.

In contrast, the mood is somewhat sombre in the Chennai Super Kings camp after Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men went down to Mumbai Indians in the tournament opener.

Apart from Matthew Hayden and Dhoni, none of the batsmen could really do any justice to their reputation and Andrew Flintoff was largely ineffective either with the ball or with the bat.

Flintoff did get the start but could not convert it, while Jacob Oram let the side down.

Even the Indian youngsters -- Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina and S Badrinath -- came a cropper and Dhoni can only hope that they would not repeat their mistake again.

Not that Chennai bowlers did any better. Apart from Joginder Sharma, even the containing job proved beyond Dhoni's bowlers.

Manpreet Gony and Thilana Thushara did an average job opening the attack while Flintoff had a rather unflattering bowling figure.