Deccan Chargers (DC) Team/Squad: (For Todays Match)

KC Sangakkara, A Ashish Reddy, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, T Atchuta Rao, AA Bhandari, DM Bravo, B Chipli, DT Christian, KH Devdhar, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, MS Gony, DJ Harris, IR Jaggi, AA Jhunjhunwala, CA Lynn, A Mishra, T Mishra, PA Patel†, V Pratap Singh, SA Quadri, DB Ravi Teja, PA Reddy, BB Samantray, C Sneha Kishore, S Sohal, TM Srivastava, DW Steyn, TP Sudhindra, J Theron, CL White, AS Yadav.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Team/Squad: (For Todays Match)

R Dravid, STR Binny, J Botha, DL Chahar, LD Chandimal, AA Chavan, A Chopra, PD Collingwood, K Cooper, AP Dole, SM Fallah, FY Fazal, SP Goswami, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, AL Menaria, S Narwal, Pankaj Singh, AG Paunikar, AM Rahane, AS Raut, OA Shah, PR Shah, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik

On May 13, 2024 Mohali witnessed a ‘ nail biting’ match between Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) and Deccan Chargers (DC) in the 61st match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2012.

Punjab gave an awesome fight to the Hyderabad team beating their 190 score by a splendid boundary on the last ball, when they had only one run to win and only a single delivery in hand. The Kumar Sangakkara-led team can ill-afford any slip-up at this stage as there is a mad scramble among the teams to seal a berth for the play-offs.

Of the nine teams taking part in the competition, the Chargers have just two wins from 13 games. They along with Pune Warriors, who are currently placed eighth with four wins from 14, are out of the hunt.

With 12 points from an equal number of matches, the Punjab side, which managed to reach semi-final only once, in 2008, is placed at seventh in the table.

The battle has got intense now as top-of-the-table-team Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders may have virtually assured themselves of a spot in the play-offs, among rest of the five teams — Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and Punjab -.

Punjab have tough games coming up as they haven’t played Delhi Daredevils yet and will be taking them on in Delhi after Sunday’s match followed by another one at Dharamsala later.

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Chennai Super Kings will face the Deccan Chargers at their home ground (MA Chidambaram Stadium) on May 4, 2012. This will be the second and final match between the two teams in this season. Chennai needs a win against the Deccan Chargers in order to accelerate to the top positions of the IPL 2012 points table,while the Deccan Chargers will try hard to win this match to show what their team is really capable of.

Skipper Kumar Sangakkara and Cameron White have found back their form which is a bright sign for the Deccan Chargers and they will be desperate to prove themselves as worthy contenders in the IPL. Shikhar Dhawan, Sangakkara, Parthiv Patel, Cameron White and JP Duminy will be the key players for the Deccan Chargers side in terms of batting.

Amit Mishra, with his perfect googly and wrist arm action can be more devastating for the batsman, but the leg-spinner has not done that consistently for his team. In the bowling department Steyn is serving the team in the best possible way.

CSK is struggling with the top order batting. Mike Hussey is one of the top performers for CSK. Mike Hussey’s contribution will count for CSK in every single match from now on and it is his responsibility to lead the batting order from the front.

Mike Hussey will be followed by Francois Du Plessis, Badrinath, MS Dhoni, Dwanye Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja who have got immense potential in batting. Mike Hussey- Mr Cricket is back in the CSK lineup after a tiring schedule in the West Indies which is a good sign for CSK.

CSK would have had night mares of their bowling performance as it has been below average right throughout this tournament. Doug Bollinger who faltered in the opening matches has directed himself to the benches due to it. Kulasekara and Ravichandra Ashwin are the only two good performers with the ball. Both Dwayne Bravo and Jakati are contributing in bits and pieces which is not at all enough for the team at this level of the tournament.

Apart from these too Ankit Sharma, Cameron White and JP Duminy are the bowling options left out for Sangakkara. Indians fast bowlers Anand Rajan and Australian Daniel Christian are too costly with their economy rate. If Deccan Chargers find a way to restrict the scoring of their opponents with this bowling, the rest of the tournament will be a merry-go-round for them.