While their bowling has always been a bit vulnerable in this format of the game, for their much-vaunted batting to collapse in the manner that it did against the Pune team must be worrying indeed. With only 4 overseas players allowed in the playing eleven the Bangalore boys are picking the leg spinner Samuel Badree over the big hitting Chris Gayle in an attempt to strengthen their bowling.

Badree has been magnificent with a hat trick against Mumbai Indians and has been worth his weight in gold. But it's clear that if Kohli and De Villiers don't click, the Bangalore boys struggle with the others. They have in Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson and Stuart Binny some big hitters but at the moment apart from the odd big hit not much noise is coming from their bats.

The Gujarat team also has a similar problem with the selection of their overseas players. Andrew Tye has looked good and like Badree for Bangalore he gives the Gujarat Lions the option of having their overseas player picking wickets. The problem for Gujarat is their bowling which has an ageing look about it.

Praveen Kumar and Munaf Patel have been terrific bowlers but with their pace dropping they are becoming easy fodder in this format of the game.

It's wonderful to see how Praveen still swings the ball both ways but in trying to bowl quicker he is losing his accuracy. Gujarat too rely on McCullum, Raina and Smith to get them off to a brisk start with Finch coming as a finisher.

The toss has unfortunately become crucial and teams winning it are winning most if not all the matches so far which is not what the game should be about. Hopefully as the tournament progresses we will see different results and spectators and viewers won't know who is going to win the match simply on which way the coin falls.