INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

State: Punjab
City: Mohali
Stadium: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium
Franchise Owner: Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul and Mohit Burman

The Yuvraj Singh lead Mohali team have a very promising team. The most interesting thing is that the team is very young overall, with only 3 players being above 30 years of age! The owners, which includes Preity Zinta and a bunch of other businessmen seem to have done their homework rather well. The team, which is rumored to be called the “Kings XI Punjab”, has a very strong batting line up with lots of big hitters. Even the U-22 players, Karan Goel and Uday Kaul have a lot of potential as batsman. Even the young Tanmay Srivastava, top scored at the U-19 world cup.

The bowling is where the team’s real strength lies. They’ve got a very lethal pace attack, with Irfan Pathan, Bret Lee and Sreeshanth all capable of picking up wickets and keeping the pressure on the batsmen. Kyle Mills, another interesting bowler who has good accuracy which could turn the game on its head so watch out..

The only doubtful area is whether there sis going to be any assistance for the pace bowlers on placid Indian wickets where everything is in the favor of the batsmen. They do have some spin capability, with Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar and even Yuvraj himself capable of some spin, but it looks rather shaky.
All in all, I think the Mohali team looks very powerful. If Yuvraj can play to the team’s strengths, this team will be the one to beat.

TEAM:
Yuvraj Singh (Captain), Mahela Jayawardene, Ramnaresh Sarwan,Simon Katich,
Luke Pomersbach, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Tanmay Srivastav, Kumar Sangakkara,
Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, James Hopes, Brett Lee, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth,
Piyush Chawla, VRV Singh, Kyle Mills, Ajitesh Argal