These two teams have played good cricket sofar in the Indian Premier League. However,
Kings XI Punjab have beaten CSK twice in this year's competition. Will
they be third time lucky or are we going to see yellow brigade's
dominance?
Kings XI Punjab
They were in top class form in the first half of the event but the last few matches haven't gone their way. Their star batsman Glenn Maxwell has found things tough with some low scores under his belt. Same could be said about Virender Sehwag and David Miller. They need runs from Maxwell and Miller if they want to win this game. Bowlers have bowled well but they too need consistency. The management of this team should play Sandeep Sharma in place of Awana. Sharma has been phenomenal with a new ball.
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni and boys are in superb touch at the moment but when it comes to Punjab based franchise things are different. Ashwin was taken for plenty by Maxwell and Miller in the two games these franchises have played. He is CSK's main bowler and they need him in crunch situations. If Dhoni is able to get good performance out of his bowlers, CSK will play their sixth final. As far as their batting is concern, the batsmen have chipped in with decent scores. Smith, McCullum, Faf, Raina, Dhoni and Hussey have played their part with mere perfection.
Verdict
I would give both teams 50-50 chances as they are capable of uprooting each other.
CSK
MS Dhoni (c/wk), Srikkanth Anirudha Baba Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, Dwayne Bravo, Akila Dananjaya, Faf du Plessis, Ben Hilfenhaus, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, R Karthikeyan, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ben Laughlin, Ronit More, Albie Morkel, Chris Morris, Dirk Nannes, Suresh Raina, Ankit Rajpoot, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay.
KXIP
Adam Gilchrist (C), Azhar Mahmood, Luke Pomersbach, David Hussey, David Miller, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Manpreet Gony, Nitin Saini, Parvinder Awana, Paul Valthaty, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Rajagopal Sathish, Ryan Harris, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Manan Vohra, Aniket Choudhary, Mandeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Siddharth Chitnis, Sunny Singh.
Kings XI Punjab
They were in top class form in the first half of the event but the last few matches haven't gone their way. Their star batsman Glenn Maxwell has found things tough with some low scores under his belt. Same could be said about Virender Sehwag and David Miller. They need runs from Maxwell and Miller if they want to win this game. Bowlers have bowled well but they too need consistency. The management of this team should play Sandeep Sharma in place of Awana. Sharma has been phenomenal with a new ball.
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni and boys are in superb touch at the moment but when it comes to Punjab based franchise things are different. Ashwin was taken for plenty by Maxwell and Miller in the two games these franchises have played. He is CSK's main bowler and they need him in crunch situations. If Dhoni is able to get good performance out of his bowlers, CSK will play their sixth final. As far as their batting is concern, the batsmen have chipped in with decent scores. Smith, McCullum, Faf, Raina, Dhoni and Hussey have played their part with mere perfection.
Verdict
I would give both teams 50-50 chances as they are capable of uprooting each other.
CSK
MS Dhoni (c/wk), Srikkanth Anirudha Baba Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, Dwayne Bravo, Akila Dananjaya, Faf du Plessis, Ben Hilfenhaus, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, R Karthikeyan, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ben Laughlin, Ronit More, Albie Morkel, Chris Morris, Dirk Nannes, Suresh Raina, Ankit Rajpoot, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay.
KXIP
Adam Gilchrist (C), Azhar Mahmood, Luke Pomersbach, David Hussey, David Miller, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Manpreet Gony, Nitin Saini, Parvinder Awana, Paul Valthaty, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Rajagopal Sathish, Ryan Harris, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Manan Vohra, Aniket Choudhary, Mandeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Siddharth Chitnis, Sunny Singh.
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