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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Pune Warriors India skipper Steven Smith won the toss and chose to field against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their IPL 2012 clash at Pune.</p> "Pin It")
Sourav Ganguly was replaced as the skipper of the Pune team by Steven Smith © AFP
By CricketCountry Staff
Pune Warriors India skipper Steven Smith won the toss and chose to field against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their IPL 2012 clash at Pune.
Pune included Alfonso Thomas, Rahul Sharma and Mohnish Mishra, while KP Appanna comes in for Syed Mohammad in the RCB squad.
Teams
PWI Manish Pandey, Robin Uthappa(wk), Mohnish Mishra, Michael Clarke, Steven Smith(c), Angelo Mathews, Anustup Majumdar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rahul Sharma, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Alfonso Thomas
RCB Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers(wk), Mayank Agarwal, Saurabh Tiwary, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Harshal Patel, KP Appanna, Muttiah Muralitharan
Catch Live Score and ball-by-ball commentary of PWI vs RCB IPL 2012 match at Pune, here
