Pune Warriors will host 57th match of IPL at Sahara Stadium, Pune. This is second time Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors India playing against each other in this season.

PWI and RCB have played two matches so far. The first was in IPL 2011, where RCB won by 26 runs, and the second was in the IPL 5th season where RCB won match by 6 wickets.

Chris Gayle is the batsman that every bowler has targeted during this season of the IPL. He is holding the current record of most sixes in IPL5.

Tillakaratne Dilshan proved himself as a destructive opener in this season, His bowling might not have been up to the mark, with him being unable to pick up wickets as required, but his capability remains unquestioned.

Steve Smith is a player whose aim and dedication reflect very clearly, irrespective of the situation his team is in, his batting has not been up to expectation recently and he has been an asset to his team on the fielding side.

Skipper Sourav Ganguly too has to lead from the front, although he is very different batsman as he used to be.

Teams: Pune Warriors: Sourav Ganguly (Capt.), Eklavya Dwivedi, Michael Clarke, Ashok Dinda, Callum Ferguson, Raiphi Gomez, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Kamran Khan, Murali Kartik, Harshad Khadiwale, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nathan McCullum, Anustup Majumdar, Mithun Manhas, Angelo Mathews, Mohnish Mishra, Ali Murtaza, Ashish Nehra, Manish Pandey, Wayne Parnell, Sachin Rana, Jesse Ryder, Marlon Samuels, Rahul Sharma, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Alfonso Thomas, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Robin Uthappa, Shrikant Wagh and Luke Wright.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Daniel Vettori (Capt.), Mayank Agarwal, KP Appanna, Prashanth Parameswaran, Arun Karthik, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Mohammad Kaif, Abrar Kazi, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Charl Langeveldt, Andrew McDonald, Abhimanyu Mithun, Muttiah Muralitharan, Karun Nair, Dirk Nannes, M Gautam, Ryan Ninan, Asad Pathan, Luke Pomerscback, Harshal Patel, Asad Pathan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rilee Rossouw, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, S Thiyagarajan, Saurabh Tiwary, R Vinay Kumar.

for the 52nd match of the DLF IPL 2012 season, Pune Warriors India will host Rajasthan Royals in their home ground. A more balanced Rajasthan Royals side would look to strengthen its position in the clogged points table when it takes on struggling hosts Pune Warriors in an Indian Premier League match on Tuesday.

Pune Warriors India has lost five of their last six clashes even though the defeat margins in the last two have been just one and seven runs.

Rajasthan too had been struggling until they crushed Kings XI Punjab by 43 runs on May 5. Before that win, they too had lost three matches on the trot.

Pune were hoping that the addition of Michael Clarke in their ranks would give a boost to their batting but the Australian skipper is yet to fire. In three matches he has scored 56 runs, out of which 41 came in one match.

Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Darvid are still the best among the lot for the Rajasthan Royals. Rahane is leading the top run getter list with 463 runs at an average of 51.00, while the Royals’ skiper Rahul Dravid is sixth in the list.

Teams:

Pune Warriors: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Eklavya Dwivedi, Michael Clarke, Ashok Dinda, Callum Ferguson, Raiphi Gomez, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Kamran Khan, Murali Kartik, Harshad Khadiwale, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nathan McCullum, Anustup Majumdar, Mithun Manhas, Angelo Mathews, Mohnish Mishra, Ali Murtaza, Ashish Nehra, Manish Pandey, Wayne Parnell, Sachin Rana, Jesse Ryder, Marlon Samuels, Rahul Sharma, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Alfonso Thomas, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Robin Uthappa, Shrikant Wagh and Luke Wright.

Rajasthan Royals: Rahul Dravid (captain), Stuart Binny, Johan Botha, Deepak Chahar, Ajit Chandila, Dinesh Chandimal, Ankeet Chavan, Aakash Chopra, Paul Collingwood, Aditya Dole, Samad Fallah, Faiz Fazal, Shreevats Goswami, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Ashok Menaria, Sumit Narwal, Pankaj Singh, Amit Paunikar, Ajinkya Rahane, Abhishek Raut, Owais Shah, Pinal Shah, Amit Singh, Shaun Tait, Siddharth Trivedi, Shane Watson and Dishant Yagnik.

The 47^th match of IPL 5 is played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors India. It is very important match for both sides. Pune are in the losing streak now. After winning first 2 games they have lost 6 in last 8 played matches. But the team looks better after M Clarke has entered in Pune. They are making several changes in every match and that is creating problems in the team. On the other hand Kolkata will register their name into Semifinals (Play-offs) if they win this match against Pune.

From KKR squad Gautam Gambhir is in fine touch and the Kolkata Knight Riders are riding well on it. Out of the nine matches played Gambhir has scored 365 runs (four fifties) at an average of 52. Out of the seven matches played, Sunil Narine’s has taken 12 wickets at an economy rate of 5.53 and holds a strike rate of 14.

Yusuf Pathan has not done a single good for his team so far in this season, but the hard hitter cannot be neglected for his lack of form.

Sourav Ganguly’s Men will have to play hard to fix the damage created due to the consecutive loses. Pune Warriors India has lost the momentum in the mid way of the tournament which is a vital blow for them.

Clarke’s contribution heavily needed for the team which is struggling to progress in the ending stage of the tournament. Michael Clarke will have to start delivering the team with runs in every single match he plays from now on. Though not a big hitter of the ball, Clarke can score quickly and with his traditional cricketing shots, he is difficult player to dismiss.

Teams

Pune Warriors : Jesse Ryder, Michael Clarke, Sourav Ganguly(c), Steven Smith, Robin Uthappa(w), Mithun Manhas, Wayne Parnell, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra, Ashok Dinda

KKR Sqaud : Brendon McCullum, Gautam Gambhir (c), Manvinder Bisla (wk), Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Rajat Bhatia, Debabrata Das, Sunil Narine, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Brett Lee