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Pune, Apr 24: A warm welcome to one and all. The last time Delhi and Pune locked horns at the Kotla, it was entertainment unlimited. Pune Warriors, inspired by Ganguly's brilliance, outperformed the Delhi Daredevils despite Sehwag's sparkling fifty. Can they repeat the same? It won't be too easy - the Delhi batting line-up has some big names in Virender Sehwag, Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene and Ross Taylor. Pune Warriors too, are filled with T20 specialists, barring Ganguly one would say. You wouldn't want to miss this game. Stay logged in, we'll be back soon with more updates.

Pune Warriors have won the toss and elected to bat

Ganguly: We've played well in this tournament, still early days. We have played the big teams and we have done well. It was important to get runs, I picked wickets as well, it is very important. It is going to be a good wicket, it is a new surface. We'll bat first. We have one change, Luke Wright is in for Mathews.

Sehwag: When you're doing well, you should look to be consistent. Unfortunately, we lost against Pune last time, hopefully we'll win today. I don't think we are the favorites, there are other teams as well. If we play to our potentials, we must do well. The wicket looks good. We can't control the toss. We are playing with the same team.

Pietersen: The wicket looks good to bat on as Sehwag said. We have some great batsmen and there's pressure on everybody to perform. We can't take it lightly. Hopefully we will win this game.

Teams:

Delhi Daredevils (Playing XI): Virender Sehwag(c), Naman Ojha(w), Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene, Ross Taylor, Irfan Pathan, Yogesh Nagar, Pawan Negi, Morne Morkel, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav

Pune Warriors (Playing XI): Robin Uthappa(w), Jesse Ryder, Sourav Ganguly(c), Steven Smith, Luke Wright, Manish Pandey, Mithun Manhas, Murali Kartik, Rahul Sharma, Alfonso Thomas, Ashish Nehra