December woes for UP?

UP chief coach Gyanendra Pandey is concerned about avoiding a repeat of the 2010 season. We did well to get three points in our earlier matches. Here too we would be looking to get three points, Pandey said.

Though UPs batting has lived up to expectations Parvinder Singh leads the charts with 480 runs,including an unbeaten 202 against Rajasthan their bowling has been a problem with skipper RP averaging 52.75 for his 8 wickets. But Pandey choses to focus on the positives. Bhuvenshwar has been bowling well,Piyush got four wickets in the last match,everybody is contributing, he said.

Railways ring in changes

Meanwhile,under pressure to retain their spot in the elite division after managing just four points in as many games,Railways have decided to ring in the changes. Murali Kartik returns to the squad after sitting out the last two games due to personal reasons and is likely to replace Shreyas Khanolkar or JP Yadav. Also,veteran Yere Goud and opener V Cheluvaraj have been dropped,replaced by Prashant Awasthi and Nitin Bille respectively.