New Delhi. The team of Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) will take to the Indian Premier League (IPL) ‘IPL) in their’ do or die ‘match when the Sunrisers will take the field against Hyderabad, they will try to win their expectations alive by winning by a big margin. LSG captain Rishabh Pant would like to leaving behind the very disappointing performance so far in this league, which is resulting back on a week’s suspension due to military confrontation between India and Pakistan.
Last year’s runner -up Sunrisers have already been out of the playoff race and will play for reputation. The team of Lucknow Supergiants has 10 points in 11 matches but the net run rate is minus 0.469. To reach the playoffs, he will have to win the remaining three matches by a big margin. Some players of Sunrisers will have a good opportunity to get rhythm, especially players like Nitish Kumar Reddy and Ishaan Kishan would like to play some useful innings before India A’s tour of England.
The biggest disappointment for Lucknow team in the current season is Captain Pant’s disappointing performance with the bat. Last year, after a record bid of Rs 27 crore in the IPL auction, he has been struggling to score runs. He has scored a strike-rate of less than 100 and 128 runs in 11 matches of this session at an average of 12.80. It is so disappointing that only things can be expected to improve from here. Pant’s name is in discussion for the vice -captain of the Indian Test team. IPL is a separate format, but he would like to do something well just before the big announcement like the team and captain and vice -captain and vice -captain and vice -captain.
For Pant, this compulsion break could not come at a better time because this player would have given a good chance to analyze his game. However, the Lucknow team will like its main batsman Nicholas Puran (410 runs) once again. He failed to impress after batting in the first five-six matches. Apart from Puran, the team will expect a good start from South Africa’s Adene Markram (348 runs) and Mitchell Marsh (378), in addition to Puran.
Squad of both teams-
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Ishaan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Atharva Taida, Abhinav Manohar, Aniket Verma, Sachin Baby, Smrit Ravichandran, Henrich Klassen (wicketkeeper), Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Kamindu Mendis, Vian Mullder, Abhishkar, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Raddi, Rahul Chahar, Simarjit Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishaan Malinga.
Lucknow Supergiants: Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, David Miller, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Matthew Breetz, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Himmat Singh, Aryan Juyal, RS Hungargekar, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Akash Maharaj Singh, Arshin Kulkarni.