Deccan Chargers

If there is the most lovable character to choose from Australian Side, It has to be Adam Gilchrist. Perhaps, Harbhajan Singh would argue this fact, but there are very few "WALKERS" that have entered in the Test Match Arena and Gilchrist being one of them stands out.

It was Gilchrist's heroics in one of the game in IPL-1 which helped Deccan Chargers win 1 game. Everyone including Gilchrist would hope that, they would get much more match winning innings from him. Deccan Chargers batting line up is the strongest batting line up in IPL-2. Yes, They are stronger than Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in terms of batting.

Even though, they would be loosing the services of A.Symonds, it would be blessing for H.Gibbs. Gilchrist and Gibbs could be much more dangerous combination than Tendulkar/Jayasurya or McCullum/Gayle or Sehwag/Gambhir in South Africa.

Apart from the two dashing Openers, they have the middle order full of stylish Indian batsmans. Rohit Sharma, V.V.S Laxman, Ravi Teja & Venu Gopal Rao. This 6 batsman are capable of chasing 180 runs.

However, their downside is their Bowling Line Up. Their Bowling line up is more than capable of giving more than 200 runs in 20 overs. Although R.P.Singh and P.Ojha even in last IPL 1 tried, they were let down by likes of Kalyankrishna and SarveshKumar. Hopefully, this year, inclusion of Shoaib Ahmed and Edwards would help them in winning few games more.

A.Gilchrist, H.Gibbs, R.Sharma, V.Rao, VVS Laxman, Ravi Teja, Vaas/Zoysa, R.P.Singh,P.Ojha, Edwards/Harris, S.Ahmed/Sarveshkumar/Kalyankrishna.

Prediction is that they would win 5 to 6 games but fell short by a game or two to qualify for Semi-Final.