By CricketCountry Staff
Pune Warriors India (PWI) take on Deccan Chargers (DC) in the 42nd tie of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2012 at Cuttack.
Published: May 01, 2012, 03:38 PM (IST)
Edited: May 01, 2012, 03:38 PM (IST)
Having lost to Deccan Chargers at home earlier this week, Pune Warriors will look to extract revenge when the two teams square off in an Indian Premier League match on Tuesday. © AFP
By CricketCountry Staff
Cuttack: May 1, 2012
Pune Warriors India (PWI) take on Deccan Chargers (DC) in the 42nd tie of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2012 at Cuttack.
Having lost to Deccan Chargers at home earlier this week, Pune Warriors will look to extract revenge when the two teams square off in an Indian Premier League match on Tuesday.
The Sourav Ganguly-led Warriors are currently placed at No. 7 in the points table, with just four wins out of the nine and the team would like to put its campaign back on track against table-trailers Chargers.
The bowling troika of Marlon Samuels, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rahul Sharma looked ordinary against Chargers at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium. However, Pune can take some heart from the performance of Ashish Nehra and South African import Alfonso Thomas.
Thomas has particularly been impressive with the ball conceding just over six runs an over in the three matches he has played for the Warriors so far.
Nehra, on the other hand, has looked good in patches, but his inability to strike early in the last few games have raised concerns in the Pune camp.
Chargers, on the other hand, have not succeeded in giving their campaign a right direction and their dismal performance against Mumbai Indians has not done any good to their depleting morale.
Even the decision of skipper Kumar Sangakkara to drop himself for the Mumbai tie did not have any bearing on the team’s results.
Led by Dayle Steyn in the bowling department, they tried their best to take the fight to MI after just scoring 100 with the bat in their previous match, but their overall ability has come under question.
The team has no realistic chance of making it to the last four after losing six matches out of the eight they have played so far but they can definitely be the ‘party poopers’ for the other teams. (PTI)
DC : Shikhar Dhawan, Parthiv Patel (wk), Kumar Sangakkara (c), Cameron White, Jean-Paul Duminy, Biplab Samantray, Ankit Sharma, A Ashish Reddy, Dale Steyn, Amit Mishra, Veer Pratap Singh.
PWI : Manish Pandey, Sourav Ganguly (c), Michal Clarke, Robin Uthappa (wk), Marlon Samuels, Steven Smith, Mithun Manhas, Wayne Parnell, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Catch the live score & ball-by-ball commentary of the 42nd IPL 2012 match here
