After clinching the first win of the 9th season of the ongoing Indian premier League, Gujarat Lions will face-off Rising Pune Super Giants in their second fixture in the IPL, at the Saurashtra cricket association stadium tomorrow. Gujarat Lions vs Rising Pune Supergiants Live Streaming, Match Prediction IPL 2016 on 14th April. GL vs RPS Live Streaming on HotStar, Starsports.com.
Match Details:
Match: GL vs RPS, 6th Match, Indian Premier League, 2016
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016
Time: 02:30 PM GMT, 8 PM IST
Venue: Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
Teams:
Gujarat Lions Squad: Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Shivil Kaushik, Praveen Kumar, Dale Steyn,
Rising Pune Supergiants XI: MS Dhoni, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rajat Bhatia, Faf du Plessis, Kevin Pietersen, Ishant Sharma, Steven Smith, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Marsh, Ajinkya Rahane, RP Singh
GL vs RPS Match Preview:
Gujarat Lions has a perfect unit of dynamic players, which apparently have the ability to bring glories for the new franchise of the Indian premier league! For sure, the team has some of best hitters of the T20 format like, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Smith, Aaron Finch, James Faulkner, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhawal Kulkarni and Dinesh Kartik, who can turn the tide of the game for the team. Undoubtedly, Finch proved himself on the night against Punjab, as his 74 runs from 47 balls and Kartik’s well played 44(27) sailed Gujarat to their first win.
Not to forget, the fine bowling from Dwayne Bravo, as he claimed 4 wickets for just 22 runs, and was the most efficient bowler, and spoiled the party for the Punjab on their very home ground, will share the death over’s along with James Faulkner. And as usual, African pace battery, Dale Steyn, who was one of the most expensive bowlers during the world T20, will lead the bowling attack.
On the other side, it will be Rising Pune SuperGiants lead by the Indian team skipper MS Dhoni, a man who has brought glories for his former IPL side, Chennai Super Kings to 2 IPL trophies, which is the maximum for any team in the tournament so far. Not startled by the fact that, Pune also initiated their campaign by defeating the defending champions Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets. The Mumbai boy Ajinkya Rahane scored an unbeaten 42 balls 62 runs, which included 3 6’s and 5 4’s, along with Faf Du Plessis’s 34 runs. After the fall of Plessis’s wicket, Kevin Pietersen joined the party with Rahane and sailed to victory with an ease, in 15 over only.
Harbhajan Singh took the only wicket for Mumbai Indians in the form of Faf Du Plesis. For Pune Mitchel Marsh and Ishant Sharma took 2 wickets each and restricted Mumbai to 121/8. Ishant departed skipper Rohit Sharma for 7 runs before getting the crucial wicket of Lendl Simmons (8) in his very next over. Marsh claimed the wickets of Hardik Pandya and sent Jose Buttler for a duck.
GL vs RPS Match Prediction
Both the teams have some of the best players from the international cricket and from the T20 cricket format. So it will be interesting to see who will prove to be a better side on the day since Dhoni has proved kicked off his campaign with a start against a dominant Mumbai Indians, who have been 2 times champions. And Gujarat has also proved its metal against Hyderabad. Pune to win this game.
