A grassy track expected to offer good bounce awaits six-time champions Delhi and Uttar Pradesh when they run into each other on neutral territory in the five-day Ranji Trophy final here from Wednesday.

Delhi, with an array of experienced batsmen in their ranks, hold a distinct advantage over UP -- led by their India discard Mohd Kaif -- who started slowly before picking up momentum to reach the summit clash at the Wankhede Stadium.

Both the teams are eager to bag the national championship and have come well prepared to fight it out tooth and nail here at the Brabourne stadium.

Delhi captain Gautam Gambhir, who is expected to make the India one-day squad to be picked here on January 20, and Aakash Chopra are capable of giving the latter batsmen the right platform to mount a good score against the varied, but largely inexperienced, UP bowling attack.

In bowling too Delhi seem to hold the aces with the availability of left-arm pacer Pradeep Sangwan who has grabbed 28 wickets in the league phase of the tournament.

Sangwan, Parvinder Awana, Amit Bhandari and Rajat Bhatia have been in good shape which has eased the pressure on the spin department, strengthened by the inclusion of seasoned campaigner and former India ODI bowler Rahul Sanghvi.

“We wanted the bowling attack to have an all-round look which was lacking and that’s why we included (left arm spinner) Sanghvi,” Delhi coach Vijay Dahiya said on Tuesday.

“We had not done well as a team though around 10 to 12 boys had gone on to play for India. We are totally focused on winning the title and play in the same manner whether Mithun Manhas is the captain or Virender Sehwag or now Gautam Gambhir,” Dahiya said.

Delhi have not won the Ranji Trophy since 1991-92 or even reached the finals since the first and only day-night summit clash they lost to Mumbai at Gwalior in 1996-97.

Delhi have finalised the final 12 while UP are still undecided.

The teams (from): Delhi: Gautam Gambhir (capt), Aakash Chopra, Shikhar Dhawan, Mithun Manhas, Chetanya Nanda, Amit Bhandari, Parvinder Awana, Rajat Bhatia, Puneet Bisht (wk), Aditya Jain, Sumit Narwal, Pradeep Sangwan, Mayank Tehlan, Narinder Singh, Gautav Chhabra and Rahul Sanghvi.

Uttar Pradesh: Mohd Kaif (capt), Suresh Raina, Rohit Prakash, Tanmay Srivastav, Piyush Chawla, Ravikant Shukla, Mohd Amir Khan (wk), Praveen Kumar, Bhavnesh Kumar, Praveen Gupta, Sudeep Tyagi, Rahat Elahi, Parvinder Singh, Mohd Abid Khan and Tahir Abbas.

Umpires: AV Jayaprakash and Amish Saheba; third umpire: S Ranade. Match referee: Raju Mukherjee.