Inaugural Indian Premier League T20 Champions, Rajasthan Royals, will kick start their IPL 2011 campaign against Deccan Chargers in the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad today at 4Pm IST.Both sides have met with each other on six occasions in the past three seasons, Rajasthan Royals winning five of six encounters.
Deccan Chargers led Kumar Sangakkara, who was the caption of Sri Lanka, is in good form and would hope players like JP Duminy and Michael Lumb help the side start its campaign on a winning note. Two of their star players Kevin Pietersen and Cameron White already ruled out of the tournament.But they have strong bowling line up including Ishant Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha with Dale Steyn leading up in their attack.
Whereas with Rajasthan Royals Ross Taylor and Rahul Dravid are the only established batsman, as Paul Collingwood will miss the tournament due to an injury, Shane Watson is expected to join after Aussie’s Bangladesh tour.However Jacob Oram comes in as replacement. Shaun Tait , Johan Botha, Oram will handle the bowling department along the skipper Warne and young Siddharth Trivedi .
Let us see who wins their First Battle in IPL 2011 this time around.
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