Match Number: 51
Fri 16April 2010
Time: 8:00 pm
Venue: Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharmasala

In a dream come true for the cricket lovers of Dharamsala, the 51th match of DLF Indian Premier League 2010 will be played today at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharmasala between Kings XI Punjab and Deccan Chargers. Defending champion Deccan Chargers are 6th in the points table and have to win the remaining both matches and then see how the net run rate changes for other teams. In this edition of IPL, only Mumbai Indians have made it to semi finals so far and the other three spots are open for all except Kings XI Punjab.

Today’s match would be a real entertainer as Kings XI Punjab are playing for pride and would do anything to make sure they knock out Deccan Chargers out of this year IPL edition where as Deccan Chargers are desperate to win and hope to qualify for the semi’s.

Deccan Chargers Team
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar.

Kings XI Punjab Team
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, Shawn Marsh, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, R Powar, V.R.V. Singh, P. Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Ravikant shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Shalabh Srivastava, Love Ablish, Manvinder Bisla, Bipul Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Mahela Jayawardene, Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara, Yusuf Abdulla, Nuwan Kulasekara, Adrian Barath, Jerome Everton Taylor.

Final eleven will be announced before match.