England batter Jonny Bairstow is out from the three-day necessary quarantine and had joined the Punjab Kings forward of their attractive contest towards Gujarat Titans on a Brabourne Stadium observe the place runs are all the time on supply.
Punjab of their three video games have proven that the strategy this 12 months can be to go hammer and tongs through the Powerplay overs and set the tempo for the remainder of the innings.
While senior openers Shikhar Dhawan and skipper Agarwal are but to make vital contributions, it might be an onerous job towards the Titans’ assault.
It is the middle-order of Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Livingstone and newcomer Jitesh Sharma, that’s anticipated to supply fireworks with M Shahrukh Khan and Odean Smith on the rear.
With Jonny Bairstow again on the helm, it is going to be fascinating to see who will make approach for the England swashbuckling batter within the taking part in eleven. The toss-up will probably be between Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Odean Smith. The duo had performed nothing hurt within the match up to now however it is going to be a mistake to bench somebody like Bairstow if he’s a match match.
Predicted Playing XIs
Punjab Kings XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, Jonny Bairstow, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Shahrukh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.
Gujarat Titans XI: Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Vijay shankar, Hardik Pandya, David Miller, Abhinav Sadarangani, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Aaron.
Teams
Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Shahrukh Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Sandeep Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Benny Howell.
Gujarat Titans: Hardik Pandya (Captain), Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Mohammed Shami, Lockie Ferguson, Abhinav Sadarangani, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmed, Sai Kishore, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Dominic Drakes, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, Pradeep Sangwan , David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Varun Aaron, B Sai Sudharshan.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
