After breaking the jinx of home defeats, a confident Deccan Chargers will aim to keep the momentum intact as they take on Kings XI Punjab at the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium on Saturday.The 2009 IPL champions, Deccan, started their campaign on a dismal not losing the first two matches but made a good comeback by registering a 33-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday.
Deccan bowlers who looked pretty ordinary in the earlier matches looked a different lot against Bangalore and their skipper Kumar Sangakkara will hope they keep up the good work.
Dale Steyn and Manpreet Gony claimed three wickets each while Ishant Sharma, Daniel Christian and Amit Mishra also found a mention among the wicket takers.
Their batting boasts of players like Sangakkara, Jean Paul Duminy, Daniel Christian, Shikhar Dhawan, Ishank Jaggi and Bharat Chipli and they too, have peaked at the right time.
On the other hand, Punjab have also made a brilliant comeback into the tournament after losing their opening match to Pune Warriors.
All eyes will certainly be on 27-year-old Paul Valthaty who scored a magnificent unbeaten 120 off just 63 balls to help Punjab beat defending champions Chennai Super Kings.
Others who are equally capable of killing any bowling attack are skipper Adam Gilchrist, Abhishek Nayar, Sunny Singh and Dinesh Karthik.
For Gilchrist, whose bowlers took a bit of pounding against Chennai will hope that they pull up their socks and get their acts together.
Praveen Kumar might have provided crucial breakthroughs at the beginning but has been ineffective at the death, while leg-spinner Piyush Chawla has continued his poor form of World Cup.
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