Match particulars
Punjab Kings (P7 W2 L5; ninth) vs Gujarat Titans (P7 W3 L4; eighth)
Mullanpur, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)
Massive image – Prime-order troubles
In an IPL season the place batting has reached new heights, each Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans are circling the drain, their top-order performances specifically letting the group down on varied events.
Massive scores, in fact, aren’t all the time mandatory in T20 cricket. Fast 20s and 30s are sometimes sufficient to place up a aggressive rating. However Kings (SR 128.80) and Titans (130.54) aren’t even managing that. The truth is, they’ve the slowest scoring prime three within the competitors.
Rashid Khan, Shashank Singh and Ashutosh have every bailed their groups out of bother coming in down the order a good few instances however ultimately, these two groups are going to have to grasp that even their powers have limits.
Type information
PBKS LLLWL (Most up-to-date match first)
GT LWLLW
Crew information and Impression Participant technique
Punjab Kings
Final Sunday, Kings stated Shikhar Dhawan would want every week’s time to get better from a shoulder harm. So this sport may be coming a contact too early for him. In addition they dropped his opening associate Jonny Bairstow after a poor run within the final sport. Will they persist with that or convey him again contemplating top-order muscle is the place they’re most missing?
Possible XII: 1 Sam Curran (capt), 2 Prabhsimran Singh, 3 Rilee Rossouw, 4 Liam Livingstone, 5 Shashank Singh, 6 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 7 Ashutosh Sharma, 8 Harpreet Brar, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Arshdeep Singh, 12 Harpreet Singh
Gujarat Titans
Titans are prone to proceed utilizing R Sai Kishore or Shahrukh Khan as their Impression Sub relying on the necessity of the hour. They might additionally think about bringing in Azmatullah Omarzai or Josh Little for Noor Ahmad given the dearth of assist for spin in Mullanpur.
Possible XII: 1 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 2 Shubman Gill (capt), 3 Sai Sudharsan, 4 David Miller, 5 Abhinav Manohar, 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Mohit Sharma, 9 Azmatullah Omarzai/Josh Little, 10 Spencer Johnson, 11 Sandeep Warrier, 12 R Sai Kishore/Shahrukh Khan
Within the highlight – Jitesh Sharma and David Miller
Pitch and situations – Tempo vs spin
The typical first-innings rating in Mullanpur this IPL is 187. The situations, as a lot as they’ve lent themselves to the batters, have additionally allowed quick bowlers to prosper. They’ve picked up 47 wickets – roughly 5 instances as many because the spinners (9) have managed in 4 video games up to now.
Stats that matter – The Ashutosh and Shashank present
- Rashid Khan has dismissed Liam Livingstone 3 times in 4 innings within the IPL, whereas giving freely 26 runs in 19 balls. However develop that to all T20s and Livingstone holds his personal with a strike price of 172. Amongst batters who’ve confronted at the very least 50 balls of Rashid, nobody hits him longer or tougher.
- Ashutosh and Shashank have contributed 343 runs at a strike price of 190 and common of 57. The remainder of Punjab have contributed 820 runs at a strike price of 127 and a median of 20.
- Titans have slowed down in each section of play this season when in comparison with the final one – powerplay (7.42 vs 8.54), center overs (7.47 vs 8.54) and loss of life (10.21 vs 11.86).
- An IPL group’s premier strike bowler usually tends to function within the loss of life and that is how Kagiso Rabada had been used beforehand. He did practically 30% of his work throughout overs 17 to twenty. This season, nonetheless, it is gone all the way down to 10%, doubtlessly as a result of Punjab depend on Arshdeep Singh in that stage of the innings.
- Rabada has benefited from this swap. He is nonetheless contributing wickets. He is acquired 10 this yr which places him joint-fifth, and his economic system price is 8.32 – solely in 2019 and 2021 has he been extra miserly.
Alagappan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
