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INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE T-20 CRICKET 2016
25TH MATCH
GUJARAT LIONS VS RISING PUNE SUPERGIANTS
April,29,2016
TOSS;
Gujarat have won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Gujarat Players;
Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina(c), Dinesh Karthik(w k), Ravindra Jadeja, Ishan Kishan, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Praveen Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shivil Kaushik
Rising Pune Players ;
Ajinkya Rahane, Peter Handscomb, Steven Smith, Saurabh Tiwary, MS Dhoni(w k & c), Thisara Perera, Albie Morkel, Rajat Bhatia, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Ashok Dinda
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium;
It's Pune taking on Gujarat and the venue for the game is Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune.Pune finally tasted a win in the last match after 4 defeats in a row and they will be keen to carry on the winning momentum. A win for Gujarat tonight will strengthen their position at the top of points table.Their campaign back on track after a victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad, a rejuvenated Rising Pune Supergiants now face an uphill task of taming the rampaging Gujarat Lions in an IPL clash in Pune on Friday.After a comprehensive win over defending champions Mumbai Indians in the tournament-opener, Pune suffered four losses on the trot before a win over Hyderabad via Duckworth-Lewis method last Tuesday gave them a new lease of life and the Debutantes will look to continue the positive run.However, standing in their way are the Lions, who have been in red-hot form this season. With five wins in six matches, they are the table-toppers, who have crushed all opponents apart from the Sunrisers. In fact, Pune too were in their firing line early in the tournament when the Lions had beaten them by seven wickets at Rajkot and the Supergiants will be itching to extract revenge on Friday.
The Lions have depended on their batting trio of Aaron Finch, Brendon McCullum and skipper Suresh Raina to score runs in this IPL. Though Finch's fitness is a concern for Gujarat but Dwayne Smith has proved to be a good replacement so far and blasted a 30-ball 52 last night against Delhi Daredevils in only his second match this IPL.Among the bowlers, the pace duo of Dwayne Bravo and Dhawal Kulkarni have been the top picks for Gujarat with seven and six wickets respectively, while the spin combination of Pravin Tambe and Ravindra Jadeja too have contributed with five and four scalps so far.For Pune, the opening duo of Ajinkya Rahane and Faf du Plessis have been the top run-scorers with 223 and 206 runs respectively so far in the tournament. But the latter has been ruled out of the remaining due to a finger injury.Steven Smith and Mahendra Singh Dhoni need to fire if the Supergiants have to post a huge score or chase down a big target as it is likely to be a high-scoring game at the Maharashtra Cricket Association stadium in Pune.The spin-pace duo of Murugan Ashwin and Thisara Perera have done the bulk of the damage for his team, picking up 7 and 6 wickets respectively so far, and the onus will be on them to earn Pune early breakthroughs.All eyes will also be on pacer Ashok Dinda, who grabbed three wickets in the only match he played in the tournament so far against Hyderabad. Top India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has been off-colour so far and he needs to step up if Pune has to go further ahead in the event.RPS 121/1 (13.1)
Pune lead by 121 runs with 9 wickets in hand
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
AM Rahane 52 44 5 0 118.18
SPD Smith 63 34 6 2 185.29
Bowlers O M R W Econ
DJ Bravo 1.1 0 14 0 12.00
JP Faulkner 2 0 22 0 11.00
Recent overs : 1 2 1 4 1 1 | 1 1 6 4 1 1 | 2
Partnership : 108 runs, 10.4 overs, RR: 10.13
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