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Chandigarh: Their campaign in doldrums, Kings XI Punjab will have to sort out their batting woes when they take on an equally beleaguered Pune Warriors in a clash of the laggards in the Pepsi IPL on Sunday.
With just two wins from five outings, poor batting has been the bane of the Adam Gilchrist-led Punjab. In fact, the dismal form of the captain himself remains a cause of concern for the home team.
The 41-year-old veteran, who has played 96 Tests and 287 ODIs, has failed to play a big knock and anchor the innings for Punjab even once so far.
Failure to build partnerships and the batsmen's general lack of application in critical situations has not helped the Preity Zinta co-owned team, which has been heavily dependent on Gilchrist, David Hussey and Mandeep Singh in the batting department.
The problem came to fore once again when they lost five wickets for just 20 odd runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the last away match after cruising at one stage (104-4).
Like Punjab, Pune Warriors too will need to pull up their socks in the batting department to make an impact.
They have broken an 11-match losing streak but the Angelo Mathews-led side has put up ordinary performances barring a couple of matches, which they won against Rajasthan and CSK.
At the top, Robin Uthappa will need to take more responsibility together with Aaron Finch, who can tear apart a good bowling attack. Yuvraj Singh, who once captained KXIP, has missed a few games for the Warriors team this season due to injury.
Leg-spinner Rahul Sharma has been the pick of Warriors' bowling attack and has got good support from Mathews, though Ashok Dinda and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have the capability to do better.
Teams from
Kings XI Punjab: Adam Gilchrist (captain & wk), 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.
Pune Warriors: Angelo Mathews (captain), Yuvraj Singh, Abhishek Nayar, Robin Uthappa (wk), Ross Taylor, Ajanta Mendis, Manish Pandey, Marlon Samuels, Mitchell Marsh, Mithun Manhas, Parveez Rasool, Rahul Sharma, Ali Murtaza, Anustup Mazumdar, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dheeraj Jadhav, Eklavya Dwivedi, Harpreet Singh, Ishwar Pandey, Kane Richardson, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Luke Wright, Mahesh Rawat, R Gomez, Shrikant Wagh, Steve Smith, T Suman, Tamim Iqbal, Udit Birla, Wayne Parnell.
Match facts
Sunday April 21, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 20:00 local (1430 GMT)
