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It was expected that the addition of two new franchises, and the resultant dilution of talent, would rob the IPL of its biggest draw card - its competitiveness. A week-and-a-half into the event, however, things have turned out quite the opposite: just four points split the ten-team field. All sides have experienced victory and defeat, the big-ticket franchises have lost to newly-formed ones and, so far, no team is a sure pick for the knockouts.
Pune Warriors are one of the teams that have out-performed. At first sight, their side looked weak on the bowling front, and their batting seemed to lack the overseas class of other sides. Yet, they have delivered through uninhibited aggression, a Twenty20 trait rarely seen in the IPL, where sides grapple with the big differences in quality between their players. Pune don't worry about shielding weak links - they attack from the outset, through Jesse Ryder's enterprise, and through their new-ball bowlers' relentless search for early wickets.