Deccan Chargers to face Kings XI Punjab in IPL today

Kings XI Punjab will hope to win today's match against Deccan Chargers and take the fourth position in points table. The 53rd match of the IPL between Kings XI Punjab and Deccan Chargers will be played in Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium of Hyderabad from 8 pm.

Gilchrist is still doubtful to play for Punjab and his absence will mean the cap will be on Hussey. Azhar Mahmood, Awana, Chawla, Hussey, Praveen Kumar and Shaun Marsh will try their best to win this match while Deccan will look towards their captain Sangakkara to lead from the front. Bravo, Duminy, Dhawan, Cameron White and Dale Steyn are the others who will have the responsibility to win the match for their team.

At present KXIP are at 7th position with 10 points and Deccan Chargers are at the bottom of the table with just 5 points.

Deccan Chargers Team:

KC Sangakkara, A Ashish Reddy, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, T Atchuta Rao, AA Bhandari, DM Bravo, B Chipli, DT Christian, KH Devdhar, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, MS Gony, DJ Harris, IR Jaggi, AA Jhunjhunwala, CA Lynn, A Mishra, T Mishra, PA Patel, V Pratap Singh, SA Quadri, DB Ravi Teja, PA Reddy, BB Samantray, C Sneha Kishore, S Sohal, TM Srivastava, DW Steyn, TP Sudhindra, J Theron, CL White, AS Yadav

Kings XI Punjab Team:

AC Gilchrist, P Awana, KJ Abbott, L Ablish, Amit Yadav, Azhar Mahmood, BA Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, PP Chawla, SD Chitnis, BCJ Cutting, P Dogra, JP Faulkner, Gurkeerat Singh, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, DJ Hussey, P Kumar, VS Malik, Mandeep Singh, SE Marsh, AD Mascarenhas, DA Miller, AM Nayar, RR Powar, NJ Rimmington, N Saini, SJ Srivastava, Sunny Singh, PC Valthaty