Friday 18 April 2014

IPL 2014 Preview: Chennai Super Kings vs. Kings XI Punjab

Chennai Super Kings
This outfit has dominated Indian Premier League since its inception. However, this year it won’t be that easy as they are under the scanner of the Supreme Court for the alleged involvement of some of its officials in the spot fixing saga. Apart from this, CSK has changed a lot in terms of players. There is no Michael Hussey, Murali Vijay, Albie Morkel and few more in the team while the likes of Brendon McCullum, Samuel Badree and some others have come in as the new entries. The presence of MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin, whom they retained, is enough to boost the confidence of the other players. Samuel Badree could prove their trump card as he is in superb form at the moment. The fast bowling is looking quite weak with no great pace bowler. Ben Hilfenhaus, Mohit Sharma and Ishwar Pandey are good but are not lethal.

Kings XI Punjab This franchise from Punjab has altogether built a new squad for the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League. They have managed to snap up Virender Sehwag, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh and many others in the auction process but where is good Indian talent. The whole world knows that a team is allowed to field four foreign stars and the remaining seven has to come from India. Even there is no big Indian name in the bowling department. I know players like Sehwag, Bailey and the other foreign players could win matches single handedly but a team need quality Indian players as well which are not there in the Kings XI Punjab squad.Verdict My money is on Chennai Super Kings because they are more balanced than their opponents.

Teams Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (c), Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Smith, Ashish Nehra, Mohit Sharma, Samuel Badree, Ben Hilfenhaus, Matt Henry, B Aparajith, Mithun Manhas, Ishwar Pandey, Pawan Negi, Vijay Shankar, Ronit More, John Hastings. Kings XI Punjab: George Bailey (c), David Miller, Manan Vohra, Virender Sehwag, Mitchell Johnson, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhaman Saha, Thisara Perera, Glenn Maxwell, Rishi Dhawan, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Akshar Patel, Beuran Hendricks, Karanveer Singh, Murali Kartik, Shivam Sharma, Shardul Thakur, L Balaji, Parvinder Awana, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Mandeep Singh. Note- Samuel Badree could prove their trump card as he is in superb form at the moment. The fast bowling is looking quite weak with no great pace bowler. Ben Hilfenhaus, Mohit Sharma and Ishwar Pandey are good but are not lethal.

cricket today magazine is a Expert Writer Of Cricket Match, crictoday india and also write Present Running series india versus new zealand series future match in t20 Wc banladesh and more about cricket new,update,records etc. Follow me On Social Plugging- Google Plus , IPL 7 t 20 Facebook, IPl Live score t20

No comments:

Post a Comment