It is going to be a high-octane struggle between Gujarat Titans’ deadly tempo assault and Punjab Kings’ dynamic top-order when the 2 groups meet every different within the sixteenth tournament of IPL 2022 on Friday. Punjab Kings are lately positioned on the fourth place at the issues desk of this season of the Tata IPL, while Gujarat Titans are ranked 3rd at the issues desk.
Lockie Ferguson will glance to unharness his thunderbolts on Liam Livingstone, who had taken the CSK assault to the cleaners within the earlier recreation together with his 32-ball-60. Ferguson and Mohammed Shami make for probably the most potent new-ball pairs after the primary two weeks.
Whilst senior openers Shikhar Dhawan and skipper Agarwal are but to make important contributions, it might be an arduous process towards the Titans’ assault. It’s the middle-order of Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Livingstone and newcomer Jitesh Sharma, this is anticipated to offer fireworks with M Shahrukh Khan and Odean Smith on the rear.
Gujarat would possibly face issues at the batting entrance. Shubhman Gill is the one confident batter they have got until now. Within the first tournament towards Lucknow, they did not need to chase a lot and the second one recreation noticed them protect 170 peculiar purely on account of their opening bowling intensity.
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Gujarat Titans were somewhat good and received each their video games thus far. Their first win got here towards the Lucknow Tremendous Giants after which adopted it up with a 14-run win towards Delhi Capitals. Whilst their bowlers have been excellent within the tournament towards Delhi Capitals, at the batting entrance, Shubman Gill confirmed his elegance as he smashed a 46-ball 84.
Punjab of their 3 video games have proven that the way this yr could be to move hammer and tongs all the way through the Powerplay overs and set the pace for the remainder of the innings. They have got received two in their 3 video games thus far. Their all-attack way has been running for them, and with the inclusion of Vaibhav Arora and Kagiso Rabada, their bowling shares were reinforced. Rahul Chahar has hit just right shape with the ball and this bodes neatly for the facet.
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Liam Livingstone: The England all-rounder lived as much as his ticket as he got here up with a match-winning efficiency within the victory over Chennai Tremendous Kings. With the bat, he smashed 60 runs off simply 32 deliveries and hit 5 fours and 5 sixes after which returned to pick out 2 wickets in 3 overs. Gujarat shall be taking a look to stay the fancy all-rounder quiet within the IPL conflict.
Hardik Pandya: Gujarat captain has been scoring runs whilst batting at quantity 4 and has additionally finished his quota of four overs in each suits received by way of GT. Pandya would possibly play a key function for his workforce on this tournament.
PLAYING XI
Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal(captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Shahrukh Khan, Odean Smith, Jitesh Sharma(wk), Rahul Chahar, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade(wk), Vijay Shankar, Hardik Pandya (captain), Abhinav Manohar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Varun Aaron, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammad Shami
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