Deccan Chargers' Kumar Sangakkara returned to the side as captain after sitting out the last game and he opted to bat first against the only team they've beaten so far in this edition.
The big inclusion for the Pune Warriors was Michael Clarke, flying in from the West Indies after the Test series and replacing Jesse Ryder. After keeping out of the IPL in the previous four seasons, Clarke made his first appearance in the league. He also hasn't played a Twenty20 game since October 2010. Wayne Parnell, the allrounder, came in place of Alfonso Thomas.
The Chargers made a couple of changes. Sangakkara came in place of the struggling allrounder Daniel Christian while the Orissa batsman Biplab Samantray replaced Bharat Chipli.
Deccan Chargers: 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt), 4 Cameron White, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Biplab Samantray, 7 Ankit Sharma, 8 Ashish Reddy, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Veer Pratap Singh
Pune Warriors: 1 Manish Pandey, 2 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 3 Michael Clarke, 4 Robin Uthappa (wk), 5 Marlon Samuels, 6 Steve Smith, 7 Mithun Manhas, 8 Wayne Parnell, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Ashish Nehra
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