🏏IPL 2024: Match 37 - PBKS vs GT at Mallanpur @ 7:30PM IST🏏 - Page 2

Scenario 1

Punjab Kings win the toss and bat

Power Play score – 45-55

First Innings Score - 185-195

Punjab Kings win the match

Scenario 2

Gujarat Titans win the toss and bat

Power Play score - 55-65

First Innings Score - 190-205

Gujarat Titans win the match

When: PBKS vs GT, Match 37 on April 21 at 19:30 hours

Where: Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, New Chandigarh

What to expect: Jasprit Bumrah and Gerald Coetzee's PowerPlay success reiterated the fact that pacers have enjoyed this wicket far more than spinners in IPL 2024 with 47 wickets in four games going to the quicks. Chasing has been the captain's preferred choice, although teams batting second have a success rate of 50 per cent only at this venue.

Teams Watch

Punjab Kings

Injuries/Availability: Dhawan is still unavailable due to his shoulder injury, and did not come for the team's pre-match training session. His absence will likely continue to be a lifeline for a woefully out-of-form Prabhsimran Singh, who bats in top order. Alternatively, they could swap him for left-handed Atharva Taide, who was given one chance and then dropped immediately in a "tactical call".

Tactics & Matchups: Wriddhiman Saha only averages 16.4 in PowerPlays in IPL 2024 and has been dismissed five times in this phase. Moreover, Kagiso Rabada has great success against Saha in IPL, dismissing the batter four times albeit he's batted against the South African at a strike-rate of 150.

Probable XI: Prabhsimran Singh/Atharva Taide, Rilee Rossouw, Sam Curran (C), Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh [Impact sub: Harpreet Bhatia]

Gujarat Titans

Injuries/Availability: No injuries to report in the Titans' camp.

Tactics & Matchups: Livingstone vs Rashid Khan is an interesting sub-plot in this contest. While the destructive English bater boasts of a mighty impressive strike-rate of 172+ against the spinner, Rashid has dismissed him four times in T20 cricket.

Probable XI: Shubman Gill (c), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Sai Sudharsan, Abhinav Manohar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad/Azmatullah Omarzai, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier [Impact sub: Shahrukh Khan/Sai Kishore]

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Punjab FTW 🥳

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Originally posted by: Savera84

Stats that matter - The Ashutosh and Shashank show

• Rashid Khan has dismissed Liam Livingstone three times in four innings in the IPL, while giving away 26 runs in 19 balls. But expand that to all T20s and Livingstone holds his own with a strike rate of 172. Among batters who have faced at least 50 balls of Rashid, no one hits him longer or harder.
• Ashutosh and Shashank have contributed 343 runs at a strike rate of 190 and average of 57. The rest of Punjab have contributed 820 runs at a strike rate of 127 and an average of 20.
• Titans have slowed down in every phase of play this season when compared to the last one - powerplay (7.42 vs 8.54), middle overs (7.47 vs 8.54) and death (10.21 vs 11.86).
• An IPL team's premier strike bowler typically tends to operate in the death and that's how Kagiso Rabada had been used previously. He did nearly 30% of his work during overs 17 to 20. This season, however, it's gone down to 10%, potentially because Punjab rely on Arshdeep Singh in that stage of the innings.
• Rabada has benefited from this switch. He's still contributing wickets. He's got 10 this year which puts him joint-fifth, and his economy rate is 8.32 - only in 2019 and 2021 has he been more miserly.

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