CRICSTARS THE STARS OF CRICKET

Simon Katich steered Punjab Kings X1 against a formidable Delhi bowling line-up in Mohali. A brilliant effort by their paceman lead by VRV singh helped Kings XI Punjab restrict Delhi Daredevils to a modest 158 for eight.

Daredevils struggled at the start of their innings, losing captain Virender Sehwag and Shikhar Dhawan with only 12 runs on the board. Dare Devils lost wickets at regular interval and were at 88-5 the Daredevils looked to be in dire straits, but Manoj Tiwary rescued the situation with 39 from 34 balls.

Kings Punjab also started there innings nervously loosing  two wickets in first two overs. But they recovered from the early hiccups with the help of Simon Katich’s knock of 75 runs and Yuvraj Singh’s unbeaten 40.

Shane Watson and Warne steered Rajasthan Royals to their maiden victory in the tournament

In a surprising result, Rajsthan Royals defeated Punjab Kings at Jaipur, thanks to a inspiring performace from Shane Watson and Shane Warne. Shane Warne’s 3 for 19 restricted Kings XI Punjab to 166. Yuvraj Singh rescued Punjab Team with his 34 ball 57 runs. Rajasthan Royals comfortable chased the target, thanks to a fiery 49-ball 76 by Watson, and a unbeaten 36 by Ravindra Jadeja. . At 99 for 4 in 12th over Rajasthan Royals were rescued by a a unbeaten 69-run partnership between Watson and Jadeja

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Kings XI Punjab

Owner: Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia etc
Official Website: http://www.kings11punjab.com

Captain: Yuvraj Singh
Coach: Tom Moody

Batsmen:
Yuvraj Singh
Mahela Jayawardena
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Simon Katich
Luke Pomersbach
Karan Goel
Uday Kaul
Tanmay Shrivastava
Sahil Kukreja
Sunny Sohal

Wicket Keepers / All Rounders:
Kumar Sangakarra
Irfan Pathan
Ramesh Powar
James Hopes
Pankaj Dharmani
Nitin Saini
Wilkin Mota

Bowlers:
Brett Lee
S Sreesanth
Piyush Chawla
VRV Singh
Kyle Mills
Ajitesh Argal
Rishi Dhawan

The Mohali team,Kings XI Punjab is owned by Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan and Mohit Burman for $76 million investment this is the second cheapest franchise. Led by there icon player Yuvraj Singh and coached by former Aussie all rounder Tom Moody

The team is very young overall, with only 3 players being above 30 years of age and I guess they got some very good underdogs

They recently signed Shaun Marsh, the Western Australia top-order batsman and new entrant in Australian team. Marsh is son of ex aussie opener Geoff Marsh and the leading run scorer in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 competition in 2007-08. He made 290 runs at 58 with a strike-rate of 142.15 and was awarded Western Australia’s Player of the Year. I guess Shaun Marsh will emerge as star after IPL, what a pick by Mohali Team

Jacob Oram and Kyle Mills will play four Twenty20 games for Mohali Team before joining the New Zealand squad on their tour of England on May 1. The batting lineup looks solid with srilankan duo Mahela Jaywardhane and Kumar Sangakarra, Yuvraj Singh, Shaun Marsh and Under 19 wordcup highest scorer Tanmay Srivastava.

Bret lee will lead the bowling atackt and with sreeshanth in the team you can always except some pun, would be interesting to see if he will show off his monkeys acts against Indian players in other teams. Piyush Chawla will come handy in Indian pitches

Strengths – balanced side with lot of underdogs, picked right players at right players instead of going after big names

Weakness – Bowling line up will be tested, yuvraj singh is not looking great these days, lack of wicket takers except Bret lee

Star Players – Yuvraj Singh, Bret lee and Sangakara. Betting on Shaun Marsh

Prediction – 4-6 , may end up if key players clicked in right time