Delhi eye quick path to semis
Cricinfo previews the return match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab in Delhi

With the Kotla pitch getting slower, spinners like Amit Mishra will be more potent • Indian Premier League
Match facts
Sunday, April 11Start time 1600 (1030 GMT)
Big picture
Kings XI Punjab's win over table toppers Mumbai Indians has given this north Indian clash some tadka and Delhi Daredevils, sitting at second place, have a little more reason to be wary of the underdogs. The last time these teams met, Gautam Gambhir's half-century helped Delhi to a tense final-over victory and they went on to win their next game, lost three in a row, and bounce back with four victories on the trot. Defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday interrupted their momentum but at home against Punjab, who are out for the count, they'll expect to get right back to winning ways.Form guide (most recent first)
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Team talk
Delhi have not indicated any changes. All those present, including Ashish Nehra, trained on the eve of the clash and looked match-fit. Nehra had a spring in his step and that's good news for Delhi, but he will not be available for tomorrow's match. Absent from training were Tillakaratne Dilshan - word is that he's picked up a bout of kidney trouble - and AB de Villiers and Gautam Gambhir. Sehwag spent a long time taking throwdowns from the support staff, while the other batsmen appeared to be concentrating on spin given the success of Piyush Chawla in the last game.Previously…
Punjab 3 Delhi 2Punjab beat Delhi in both matches during the 2008 season: by four wickets at home and by six runs away. They then suffered a heavy ten-wicket loss in their first encounter in 2009 but restored the advantage by beating Delhi by six wickets. Delhi beat Punjab in their first encounter this season, by five wickets.
In the spotlight
Virender Sehwag: Roused from his slumber, Sehwag gave Kolkata Knight Riders a scare with a 40-ball 64 in Delhi's last game. His dismissal, as Sourav Ganguly said with a big smile and a sigh of relief, turned the game. Now that he's managed to get a start and convert it, Sehwag should look to step on it against Punjab and go the distance. Sehwag is a player who you'd expect to win three or four games for Delhi on his own. So far he's done it just once, so …Prime Numbers
- Delhi have 52 sixes compared to Punjab's 43. Of Delhi's 52, 37 have come from Virender Sehwag (14), David Warner (13) and Paul Collingwood (10), who bat in the top four.
- Seven different batsmen - Manvinder Bisla, Ravi Bopara, Irfan Pathan, Kumar Sangakkara, Yuvraj Singh, Shaun Marsh and Mahela Jayawardene - have opened for Punjab. Delhi have used three - Sehwag, Warner and Gautam Gambhir.
- Brett Lee has yet to take a wicket after four games and his economy rate is 10.27.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at Cricinfo