Daijiworld Media Network

Bangalore, Apr 17 : Hello and welcome to the 21st match of this T20 premier league. This is an all important encounter for Bangalore who have suffered 3 consecutive losses. Pune on the other hand have fared well under the leadership of Ganguly. They are high on confidence after they beat a strong Chennai side in their last match. This match will also be an important one for Uthappa, who will be playing in front of his home crowd, but in a different outfit. It rained a bit in some parts of Bangalore earlier in the evening, but everything is back to normal now.

Pune Warriors have won the toss and elected to bat

Ganguly: We have some guys who have played well for their countries and the local talent is also very good. At this level you don't need to coach players and this is a short tournament as well. We will bat first, it's a good surface and we look to put up a good total. Murali Kartik is not playing as we are going with an extra pacer.

Vettori: It's an important game for us. Losing 3 in a row is not good. This track has played true and it has helped the team chasing. Unfortunately Murali is not playing, we need to strengthen our batting and Dilshan has replaced him.

Teams:

Pune Warriors (From): Eklavya Dwivedi, Ashok Dinda, Callum Ferguson, Sourav Ganguly(c), Raiphi Gomez, Harpreet Singh, James Hopes, Dheeraj Jadhav, Kamran Khan, Murali Kartik, Harshad Khadiwale, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nathan McCullum, Mithun Manhas, Angelo Mathews, Mohnish Mishra, Ali Murtaza, Ashish Nehra, Manish Pandey, Wayne Parnell, Sachin Rana, Jesse Ryder, Marlon Samuels, Rahul Sharma, Steven Smith, Alfonso Thomas, Robin Uthappa(w), Shrikant Wagh, Luke Wright, Mitchell Marsh, Anustup Majumdar, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Tamim Iqbal

Royal Challengers Bangalore (From): Daniel Vettori(c), Mayank Agarwal, KP Appanna, Sreenath Aravind, Arun Karthik, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers(w), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Muralidharen Gautam, Chris Gayle, Mohammad Kaif, Abrar Kazi, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Charl Langeveldt, Andrew McDonald, Abhimanyu Mithun, Muttiah Muralitharan, Dirk Nannes, Ryan Ninan, Harshal Patel, Asad Pathan, Luke Pomersbach, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rilee Rossouw, Syed Mohammad Jamaluddin, Saurabh Tiwary, Vinay Kumar, Vijay Zol, Karun Nair .