(Cricket news) Last match a certain Rinku Singh denied Gujarat Titans three wins on the trot while PBKS suffered a 8 wicket loss to SRH despite Shikhar Dhawan’s heroic effort. Last time these two teams played an extremely close match as Rahul Tewatia won Titans the match with two sixes off the last two balls. When Titans face the Kings in Mohali they will have to quickly bounce back from the five-sixes finish from Rinku. Titans have looked the most complete side in league despite their defeat against KKR as Kings will look to use their home advantage to the fullest. Hardik Pandya was unwell and missed the last match, but he should be available for this match.
After a long wait, PBKS can finally welcome Liam Livingstone who is in Mohali and training at the nets. If he plays, this will be his first match since his Test debut in Pakistan in December. He will most likely take Matt Short’s place in the playing XI. For Trevor Bayliss’ side they might be tempted to play Kagiso Rabada but Nathan Ellis has been playing really well over the last three matches. If they bat first, Kings could bring in the South African pacer as one of the Impact Players.
Punjab Kings
In the last match, they started without Sikandar Raza in order to get Rabada in the second innings. A collapse in the batting meant that they had to get Raza in as the impact player. Now, Livingstone’s arrival could make Kings go with a more conventional side.
Probable bat-first XI: 1 Prabhsimran Singh, 2 Shikhar Dhawan (capt), 3 Bhanuka Rajapaksa, 4 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Sam Curran, 7 M Shahrukh Khan, 8 Harpreet Brar, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Rahul Chahar, 11 Arshdeep Singh
Probable field-first XI: 1 Shikhar Dhawan (capt), 2 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 3 Bhanuka Rajapaksa, 4 Liam Livingstone, 5 Sam Curran, 6 M Shahrukh Khan, 7 Harpreet Brar, 8 Rishi Dhawan, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Rahul Chahar, 11 Arshdeep Singh
Gujarat Titans
Hardik should replace Abhinav Manohar in the playing XI while it remains to be seen if they show faith in Yash Dayal as they could introduce the impressive left-arm spinner, R Sai Kishore. Their Impact Player is going to be Sai Sudharsan as he starts if they bat first and then Josh Little comes in
Probable bat-first XI: 1 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Sai Sudharsan, 4 Hardik Pandya (capt), 5 Vijay Shankar, 6 David Miller, 7 Rahul Tewatia, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Alzarri Joseph, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 R Sai Kishore
Probable field-first XI: 1 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Hardik Pandya (capt), 4 Vijay Shankar, 5 David Miller, 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Alzarri Joseph, 9 Josh Little, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 R Sai Kishore
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