May 3, 2011 9:22 AM | By Reuters

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who went unsold in the players’ auction, has been signed up by debutants Pune Warriors for the remainder of the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) fourth season, a team official said on Tuesday.

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Captain Sourav Ganguly of MCC organises his field during the T20 International Friendly match between MCC and Pakistan at Lords on June 27, 2010 in London, England
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Ganguly, 38, played for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the first three editions of the IPL and has been roped in by the Pune outfit as a replacement for injured paceman Ashish Nehra, who was ruled out with a finger injury.

“We signed him up yesterday night. We were in touch with Sourav but we were waiting for Nehra’s report which arrived yesterday,” Pune team director Abhijit Sarkar told Reuters on Tuesday.

“He will join us as soon as possible and start practising with the team. The team management will decide when he will take the field for us.”

The Yuvraj Singh-led Pune Warriors, languishing at the bottom of the table after six losses on the trot, will play table toppers Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday.

Lefthander Ganguly, who is one of India’s most prolific batsmen and retired from international cricket in 2008, was listed with a base price of $400000 in the players’ auction.

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Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kochi Tuskers Kerala DLF IPL 4

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kochi Tuskers Kerala DLF IPL 4 on May 8 @ 16:00 IST

Finally after lots of twists and turns Kochi set for IPL Match. The April 8 maiden match would be between home teamKochi Tuskers Kerala andRoyal Challengers Bangalore.
The refurbished 52,000-seater Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium will witness the Kerala entry into the high profile Cricket extraveganza. The stadium has been redone at a cost of Rs.8 crore.
Rendezvous Sports World had won the franchisee rights for the Kochi IPL team with a bid of Rs.1,500 crore in March last year. Initially they named the franchisee as "Indi Commandos" and later changed to "Kochi Tuskers Kerala".
The team constitute local boy S. Sreesanth and captain Mahela Jayawardane of Sri Lanka, Australians Steven Smith, Mathew Klinger, Brad Hodge, John Hastings and hard hitting New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) : Mahela Jayawardene (Captain), Sreesanth, Muttiah Muralitharan, RP Singh, VVS Laxman, Brad Hodge, Michael Klinger, Tanmay Srivastava, Deepak Chougule, Kedar Jadhav, Y Gnaneswara Rao, Parthiv Patel, Sushant Marathe, Brendon McCullum, Chandan Madan, John Hastings, Steven Smith, Stephen O’Keefe, Thissara Perera, Ravindra Jadeja, Raiphi Vincent Gomez, Balachandra Akhil, Yashpal Singh, P.Prasanth, Vinay Kumar, Ramesh Powar, Owais Shah

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) : Daniel Vettori (Captain), Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Zaheer Khan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Luke Pomersbach, Rilee Rossouw, Mayank Agarwal, KB Arun Karthik, Mohammad Kaif, Johan van der Wath, Jonathan Vandiar, Asad Pathan, Raju Bhatkal, CM Gautam, Dirk Nannes, Charl Langeveldt, Abhimanyu Mithun, Nuwan Pradeep, Sreenath Aravind, Bharath BN, Ryan Ninan, Abrar Kazi