Week 2 - Match 4 - Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab - Both Teams Submitted

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Form

Deccan Chargers - L
Kings XI Punjab - D

Pitch Conditions: Hard and dry, the ball will seam around and offer assistance for the quick bowlers throughout both innings. Will probably be a low scoring affair.

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Please post tactics below:

Deccan chargers tactics..

1)Tillkartane Dilshan (C)
2)Sunny Sohal
3)Manvinder Bisla (WK)
4)Chipli
5)David Hussey
6)Javdev Shah
7)Shrikant Wagh
8)Dale Steyn
9)Imran Tahir
10)James Pattinson
11)Balaji

If
i win the toss i would bat first....Reason for this is, that yes the
ball will swing and seam at the start, but only for a couple of
overs...Sohal will look to dig in, while dilshan will look to be the
aggressor early on, The pitch will get harder to bat on as the game goes
on, with the ball turning more as the game goes on.

I have
batting a long way down, steyn at 8, and give it a real hit, and on a
pitch where it should be a low scoring affair, i feel my batsman will do
a good job. Can be versatile with the order, if lost early wickets,
hussey will drop down the order so have ammunition towards the end of
the innings.

Dale Steyn and Pattinson will open the bowling,
both will bowl 2 overs at the start with balaji first change. I chose
balaji cos he is a very good SEAM bowler dont need much pace just
nibbles it around off the pitch. Dilshan/ hussey will bowl the final
powerplay over, with tahir and shrikant wagh bowling once the powerplay
is over. Tahir will bowl out, balaji will probably bowl 3 overs, with
hussey/dilshan probably only bowling one over. Steyn and pattison will
bowl the final 4 overs, therefore completing their allocation. Shrikant
wagh will bowl if needed, to chip in with a few overs.

KXIP Tactics

Sourav Ganguly (I)
Dinesh karthik (wk) (I)
Kevin Pietersen (capt)
Umar Akmal (u25)
Paul Collingwood
Siddharth Chitnis (I) (u25)
Ryan Ten Doeschate
Chris Woakes (u25)
Manpreet Gony (I)
Zaheer Khan (I)
Rahul Sharma (I) (u25)

Selection:
the swinging conditions mean that Davies is dropped so the experienced
pair of Ganguly and Karthik will open the batting. Just one specialist
spinner (Sharma) in the circumstances, but plenty of seam and swing
options with Zak, Gony, Woakes, RTD and Collingwood all enjoying the
conditions. Experienced batting line-up to counter the hard batting
conditions. Also plenty of depth there, with Woakes batting at 8, and
Gony is a useful lower order batsman in this form of the game (averages
14, SR over 130).

Bowl first if we win the toss, as the experienced batsmen should do a
good job at chasing the low score which we will keep DC to.

Bowling
tactics. Zaheer Khan and Chris Woakes to share the new ball. Zaheer
will look to bring the ball back into Dilshan, who we saw was
uncomfortable against this in the recent series against Australia. We'll
be looking for early wickets, to expose a middle-order which, David
Hussey aside, doesn't have that much real quality in it. Zak will bowl
two overs at the start, with Gony replacing him, while Woakes will bowl
through the PPs. The middle-overs will be shared between RTD and Colly,
who should enjoy the seaming conditions, with Rahul Sharma providing
some spin. Zak and Gony to finish off at the death. Basically, DC's
batting isn't that great, so we'll be looking to take wickets
throughout.

overs breakdown:
Zaheer Khan - 4 overs
Chris Woakes - 3/4 overs
Manpreet Gony - 4 overs
RTD - 3 overs
Colly - 2/3 overs
Rahul Sharma - 3/4 overs.
roughly, though of course this would ba adapted depending on how everyone goes.

Batting
tactics: if Steyn is having a good day we look to see him off at the
start with our experienced openers. But as we know Steyn is inconsistent
so we will look to cash in on the scoring opportunities he presents.
Karthik will look to bat through the run chase while Ganguly and KP will
be more aggressive. Then the middle-order is flexible, with Akmal and
Colly interchangeable depending on the situation. Finally, there's
plenty of firepower down the order, with the trio of Chitnis (T20 SR of
170!), RTD and Chris Woakes (remember that pull shot off Tait?). Gony
and Zaheer are no rabbit either.

yeah also on a par with Dinesh Karthik my second opener so you know... Having said that, a mid-twenties average in T20 is pretty handy, if all your top 6 make that you have 150 on board...

GG wrote:My no.8 Ankeet Chavan averages 68 in T20

yeah, from three innings including two not outs

it may seem around, but tahir would still have a huge part to play in this game.