Gujarat, who are set to play their first home match of the 2016 edition at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot, started their earliest T20 with five-wicket win. Rajkot will become the 32nd venue to host a T20 League match.
When: April 14, 2016, Match 6, 8:00 PM IST
Where: Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
Prediction: Rising Pune Supergiants to win
Match starts at 3.30pm BST/8pm IST. Live coverage of the game is available on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 1 HD in the UK. Set Max, Sony Six, Sony Six HD, Sony ESPN and Sony ESPN HD will telecast it live in India.
Rising Pune Supergiants and Gujarat Lions will play to continue their winning run as they face each other at Rajkot.
Even Gujrat Lions has two most destructive batsmen - Raina and Brendon McCullum – could not do much in first match. Good news for Gujrat Lion is that Aaron Finch, recovered well from his injury.
Pune have not a strong line-up of all-rounders as per their rivals, but they have a power-packed top order to change the game at any moment. Ajinkya Rahane, Faf du Plessis and Kevin Pietersen play best enough to defeat Mumbai in the opening encounter.
Dhoni needs 12 more runs to become the seventh batsman to reach 3000 runs in T20 League.
Raina needs 53 more runs to become the first Indian and fifth overall to reach 6000 runs in T20 cricket.
Squad
Pune:
Faf du Plessis, Ajinkya Rahane, Kevin Pietersen, Steven Smith, Mitchell Marsh, MS Dhoni(w/c), Rajat Bhatia, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Murugan Ashwin, Albie Morkel, Saurabh Tiwary, Irfan Pathan, Ashok Dinda, Thisara Perera, Peter Handscomb, Jaskaran Singh, Adam Zampa, Ankit Sharma, Scott Boland, Ishwar Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains
Gujarat:
Brendon McCullum, Aaron Finch, Suresh Raina(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Ishan Kishan, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Praveen Kumar, Sarabjit Ladda, Pradeep Sangwan, Dhawal Kulkarni, Paras Dogra, Shadab Jakati, Eklavya Dwivedi, Jaydev Shah, Dale Steyn, Andrew Tye, Pravin Tambe, Akshdeep Nath, Dwayne Smith, Umang Sharma, Amit Mishra, Shivil Kaushik
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