As the marauding Delhi Daredevils take on the rejuvenated Kings XI Punjab in the IPL league match at PCA stadium on Sunday, the only worry that Virender Sehwag has is lack of match practice for his batsmen since the top three have finished-off things in style without breaking a sweat in the first two matches for the Daredevils.
"We hope to carry forward our form into tomorrow's match. It’s a bit of concern that except for top three, the rest of the batsmen have not got match practice," Sehwag said this evening. The Delhi middle-order has so far got little opportunity to showcase their skills as openers — Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir — dominated the run chase in both their nine-wicket wins.
However, Sehwag has no worries about the bowling department led by redoubtable Glenn McGrath and supported by Mohammed Asif and Daniel Vettori.
On the other hand, the Kings XI will be hoping to put the unsavoury incident between Sreesanth and Harbhajan behind when they take the field on Sunday. The Kings XI pacemen- Brett Lee, Sreesanth and Irfan Pathan and the leg-spinner, Piyush Chawla bowled exceptionally well to contain the Mumbai team last evening.
Skipper Yuvraj Singh said he was expecting a good match. About his rival captain, he said, "He has been batting really well. But we have plans to contain their batsmen".
Teams: (from): Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (Captain), Rajat Bhatia, AB de Villiers, Shikhar Dhawan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Gautam Gambhir, Brett Geeves, Dinesh Kaarthick, Glenn McGrath, Farveez Maharoof, Yo Mahesh, Mithun Manhas, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Asif, Yogesh Nagar, Pradeep Sangwan, Shoaib Malik, Mayank Tehlan, Manoj Tiwary, Daniel Vettori.
Kings XI Punjab: Yuvraj Singh (Captain), Ajitesh Argal, Piyush Chawla, Pankaj Dharmani , Rishi Dhawan, Karan Goel, James Hopes, Mahela Jayawardene, Simon Katich, Uday Kaul, Sahil Kukreja, Brett Lee, Shaun Marsh, Kyle Mills, Wilkin Mota, Irfan Pathan, Luke Pomersbach, Ramesh Powar, Nitin Saini, Kumar Sangakkara, Ramnaresh Sarwan, VRV Singh, Sunny Sohal, S Sreesanth, Tanmay Srivastava.
