Chennai vs. Hyderabad - Preview

HYDERABAD: The Chennai team is facing tattered team of Hyderabad today. The Hyderabad team will try to break its notorious record of home-ground defeats. Rajiv Gandhi International stadium today will host this match.

Hyderabad is sitting at the bottom of the League points table. It will be the last match of Hyderabad today and team will strive to win this match at least for the sake of its fans. The team has so far proved itself nothing more than the proverbial paper tiger.

The team has so far won only two matches that are now distant memories. The team desperately needs to snatch a win now. On the other hand Chennai team far better placed in the tournament, is appearing stronger.

Chennai needs to win this match to enter the semis. The team has advantage of being led by Dhoni. Moreover they have good strikers like Dhoni, Fleming and Raina. On the balling side Muralitharan is the biggest asset of the team.

Other players like Vidyut, Patel and Morkel can also prove match winners in the hour of need. Hyderabad on the other side, is struggling with ball and bat both. Other than Gilly himself no other player has so far performed well. Vaas and Gibbs are trying to get into the form but its too late now for Hyderabad.

So it will be interesting to watch that whether Hyderabad wins today or Chennai enters the semis!

The teams (from):
Chennai: M.S. Dhoni (capt.), Stephen Fleming, Muttiah Muralitharan, Albie Morkel, Suresh Raina, L. Balaji, Parthiv Patel, Makhaya Ntini, Joginder Sharma, S. Badrinath, S. Vidyut, Manpreet Gony, S. Anirudha, P. Amarnath, Chamara Kapugedera, Arun Karthick, Abhinav Mukund.

Hyderabad: Adam Gilchrist (capt.), Chaminda Vaas, Herschelle Gibbs, Scott Styris, Rohit Sharma, Shahid Afridi, R.P. Singh, Sanjay Bangar, Pragyan Ojha, Y. Venugopala Rao, Chamara Silva, P. Vijay Kumar, D. Ravi Teja, Nuwan Zoysa, Sarvesh Kumar, D. Kalyanakrishna, N. Arjun Yadav.