IN A must-win encounter in the 46th match of the Indian Premier League 2011, Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils will take on each other on Thursday, May 5 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Indian Premier League 2009 champion and IPL 2010 semi finalist Deccan Chargers has lost six games so far in the current season of the IPL and won against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kochi Tuskers Kerala and one against Delhi.
In the 19th match of the IPL 4 at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi, Deccan Chargers has won against Delhi Daredevils by 16 runs. After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Chargers set the target of 169 runs for Daredevils with the help of 62 runs by Sunny Sohal and Kumar Sangakkara's 49 runs.
In reply, Virender Sehwag-led Delhi Daredevils team sort the Deccan Chargers' score by 16 runs. However, David Warner scored 51 runs for his team.
In the on-going IPL 2011, batting is the main worry for the teams. Except captains from both sides, Kumar Sangakkara and Virender Sehwag, no other batsmen are performing consistently. However, three Delhi batsmen including Sehwag, Warner and Venugopal Rao have scored more than 250 runs in the IPL 4, and only one from Deccan. Virender Sehwag with 303 runs is the third leading scorers in the IPL 4.
In bowling, one of the Delhi bowlers Morne Morkel and two of the Chargers bowlers Dale Styen and Amit Mishra have taken 10 or more wickets. In the match against Kings XI Punjab, Virender Sehwag and David Warner's 146-run stand turned out to be the highest opening stand of this IPL.
Tonight's match between Delhi and Deccan, is likely to be a clash between some of the key players including Virender Sehwag vs Dale Steyn, David Warner vs Ishant Sharma, Venugopal Rao vs Amit Mishra, Kumar Sangakkara vs Morne Morkel, Shikhar Dhawan vs Irfan Pathan, and Sunny Sohal vs Ajit Agarkar.
The Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils match will start at 8:00 om tonight. Given below are the squads of Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League 2011:
Deccan: Kumar Sangakkara (c), Ashish Reddy, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Akash Bhandari, Bharat Chipli, Daniel Christian, Kedar Devdhar, Shikhar Dhawan, Jean Paul Duminy, Manpreet Gony, Harmeet Singh, Ishank Jaggi, Michael Lumb, Chris Lynn, Ishan Malhotra, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Ravi Teja, Jaydev Shah, Ishant Sharma, Sunny Sohal, Dale Steyn, Rusty Theron, Cameron White, Arjun Yadav.
Delhi:Virender Sehwag (c), Morne Morkel, Irfan Pathan, Ashok Dinda, Travis Birt, Colin Ingram, Robert Frylinck, Roelof van der Merwe, Matthew Wade, Andrew McDonald, Ajit Agarkar, Y Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, Aaron Finch, Naman Ojha, Vikas Mishra, James Hopes, David Warner, Unmukt Chand, Robin Bist, Varun Raymond Aaron, Aavishkar Salvi, Rajesh Pawar, Sridharan Sriram, Yogesh Nagar, Vivek Yadav, Ajit Chandila.