Chennai Super King vs Pune Warriors today in IPL

Chennai Super Kings today will take on Pune Warriors new team in the Indian Premier League.It will be the first match between both the teams.

Defending champion Chennai Super Kings would look to get back to winning track by taking on IPL 2011  debutants Pune Warriors in today’s IPL match. MS Dhoni led Chennai is second last in the points table after three defeats in five matches. Chennai has won against Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore, and lost to Kochi Tuskers, Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab.Chennai have another nine matches to go along with today’s tie against Pune.Last year , they went on to win the title, after they were facing elimination close to the end of league.

Chennai's batting is strong withDhoni, Mike Hussey, Suresh Raina and Aniruddha in the team, worries are in the bowling department.Suraj Randiv, R Ashwin are yet to perform big.

Yuvraj Singh led Pune Warriors has work harder for points as they also lost last two of their matches. Pune Warriors rely heavily on Yuvraj and Jesse Ryder, with Robin Uthappa still due to perform. Their Bowling is also on weak side. Wayne Parnell had been economical but have not got many wickets.
Teams are:

Pune Warriors: Yuvraj Singh (capt.), Robin Uthappa (wk), Murali Kartik, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Deeraj Jadhav, Eklavya Dwivedi, Ganesh Gaikwad, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Harshad Khadiwale, Kamran Khan, Mithun Manhas, Mohnish Mishra, Rahul Sharma, Sachin Rana, Shrikant Wagh, Shrikant Mundhe, Imtiyaz Ahmed, Graeme Smith, Jesse Ryder, Wayne Parnell, Alphonso Thomas. Tim Paine, Callum Ferguson, Mitchell Marsh, Jerome Taylor.
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Michael Hussey, Albie Morkel, Ben Hilfenhaus, Doug Bollinger, G Bailey, Tim Southee, F du Plessis, Suraj Randiv, Nuwan Kulasekara, Joginder Sharma, Yo Mahesh, A Mukund, Wriddhiman Saha, Scott Styris, Sudeep Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh.

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