Shikhar Dhawan’s Punjab Kings suffered their first loss in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season, happening to Sunrisers Hyderabad within the first match, whereas defending champions Gujarat Titans have been shocked by a superb Rinku Singh of their final tie as nicely. Now PBKS and GT shall be going through off in opposition to one another in match no. 18 of IPL 2023 on the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium in Mohali on Thursday.
PBKS have obtained a giant enhance with highly effective England all-rounder Liam Livingstone becoming a member of the squad in Mohali earlier this week. In IPL 2022 season, Livingstone notched up 437 runs from 14 matches at a strike-rate of 182.08 with 4 half-centuries. He additionally hit one of many largest six within the season.
Livingstone although has been out of motion since December final 12 months, since making his debut in opposition to Pakistan. The English all-rounder shall be anticipated to interchange Matthew Short within the PBKS line-up for the match in opposition to the Gujarat Titans.
Dhawan additionally has the choice of brining in South African pacer Kagiso Rabada into the lineup though his substitute Nathan Ellis has been spectacular thus far in IPL 2023. Rabada, although, gives a much-more wicket-taking choice for PBKS particularly on Mohali observe which has know to help the tempo bowlers.
Gujarat Titans, however, will get Hardik Pandya again for the sport in Mohali. Pandya missed the group’s final match in opposition to KKR on account of sickness and the facet was led by Rashid Khan.
The GT all-rounder ought to substitute Abhinav Manohar within the Playing 11 in opposition to PBKS with David Miller, Alzarri Joseph and Rashid Khan anticipated to be the primary selection gamers for the sport. Like the final match, GT can carry Ireland’s Josh Little into the facet as Impact Player if they’re bowling second within the match.
PBKS may begin with out Sikandar Raza within the match if they’re bowling first and convey him in to interchange Rabada within the second innings of the sport.
#SherSquad nu sadde _s vallon #Baisakhi di lakh lakh vadhayi hove! _
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— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) April 13, 2023
Punjab Kings: Prabhsimran Singh, Shikhar Dhawan (c), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, M Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh
Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya (c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Alzarri Joseph, Mohammed Shami, R Sai Kishore
