Delhi Daredevils' players. Photo: AFP

However, their bowlers hold the key in tomorrow's clash as the race to be in top-four is gradually hotting up. They can chase a big total with these batsmen in the line-up but Twenty20 is a format where two-three overs can change the complexion of a game. So, the key is to not let Pune score much runs on the board, like they did in the last match by rattling up 192.

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Although the track at the Subrata Roy Sahara stadium promises loads of runs, if Delhi bowlers can make early in-roads into Pune line up, it would serve them well.

South African paceman Morne Morkel has been their main bowler so far with 15 scalps and how he fares along with Irfan Pathan would actually shape up the match for them. Similarly how Pune batsmen handle these two bowlers would have a bearing on the result of this match.

Morkel was taken to cleaners by Pune in the last outing and if the host batsmen could maintain their dominance over the Protea, their job would become easy.

A win would perch Pune on the top of the table at least till the result of the other match of the day between Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers.

The hosts would look to openers Jesse Ryder and Robin Uthappa for a good start, which could be capitalised later on by the likes of Ganguly, Steven Smith and Angelo Mathhews.

Pune Warriors' players. Photo: AFPu00a0

Experienced duo of ageing paceman Ashish Nehra and spinner Murali Karthik would have to take the responsibility of stopping the Delhi batsmen.

Teams (from):

Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (C), Naman Ojha, Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene, Ross Taylor, Y Venugopal Rao, Yogesh Nagar, Irfan Pathan, Roelof van der Merwe, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Andre Russell, Aaron Finch, Doug Bracewell, Ajit Agarkar, Varun Aaron, Aavishkar Salvi, Robin Bist, Sunny Gupta, Pawan Negi and Punit Bisht.

Pune Warriors: Sourav Ganguly (C), Michael Clarke, Ashok Dinda, Callum Ferguson, Raiphi Gomez, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Kamran Khan, Murali Kartik, Harshad Khadiwale, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nathan McCullum, Anustup Majumdar, Mithun Manhas, Angelo Mathews, Ashish Nehra, Manish Pandey, Wayne Parnell, Jesse Ryder, Marlon Samuels, Graeme Smith Rahul Sharma, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Alfonso Thomas, Robin Uthappa, Shrikant Wagh, and Luke Wright.