Rishabh Pant’s return shall be in focus when the Delhi Capitals (DC) face the Punjab Kings (PBKS) within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match on Friday, March 23. Pant hasn’t performed any type of cricket since December 2022 because of the accident that he endured on the Delhi-Dehradun freeway. Nevertheless, he made a quick restoration and just lately, was deemed match to play as a wicketkeeper-batter.
Pant’s return will give the Capitals a sigh of reduction as that they had a nightmarish marketing campaign final time round after they fell in need of qualifying for the playoffs. DC and PBKS have an age-old rivalry as there’s little or no to separate the 2 groups.
So far as Punjab are involved, they haven’t seen the face of playoffs since enjoying within the remaining towards Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) means again in 2014.
From David Miller, KL Rahul to R Ashwin, not one of the earlier PBKS skippers may change the fortunes of the franchise. It stays to be seen if Shikhar Dhawan might help them pull off one thing particular.
Out of 32 matches, each groups have gained 16 matches apiece. Therefore, it’s secure to say that there’s little or no to separate the 2 sides. PBKS have a 6-1 win-loss file over the Capitals on the PCA Stadium in Mohali.
Nevertheless, it’s the newly constructed Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Chandigarh that may host the house matches for the Punjab-based group. It shouldn’t be stunning if PBKS take their very own time to regulate to the character of the brand new venue.
Possible XIs
Punjab Kings
Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sikandar Raza/Sam Curran, Rishi Dhawan, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.
Delhi Capitals
Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Jake Fraser-McGurk/Tristan Stubbs, Rishabh Pant (C & WK), Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Anrich Nortje, Khaleel Ahmed
Starc vs Cummins in limelight
Within the different match, the Knight Riders will lock horns with the Sunrisers Hyderabad on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The match will witness the competition between two of the costliest gamers within the historical past of the IPL.
Again in December 2023, Cummins grew to become the primary cricketer to breach the 20-crore mark. In the long run, the Sunrisers roped him in at INR 20.50 crore. Furthermore, the Orange Military made him their skipper, changing Aiden Markram, who just lately gained back-to-back titles for the Sunrisers Japanese Cape within the SA20.
However having not led any T20 group in his profession, Cummins shall be below a little bit of stress to ship in a match as huge because the IPL.
The Knights, however, have Starc, who holds the file for the very best bid within the historical past of IPL auctions. KKR purchased the Australian speedster for INR 24.75 crore.
After the Males in Gold and Purple launched Lockie Ferguson and Cummins following the earlier season, they needed to deliver somebody like Starc to bolster their bowling assault.
Earlier, Jason Roy pulled out of the IPL after which KKR roped within the damaging Phil Salt, who is among the uncommon batters to attain back-to-back tons of in T20Is.
Shreyas Iyer is again for KKR after he missed out final season. The main focus will even be on the West Indies duo of Andre Russell and Sunil Narine.
The Knights have gained 16 out of 25 matches towards SRH. On the Eden Gardens, it’s 6-3 in favour of the Males in Gold and Purple.
Possible XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Rahmanullah Gurbaz/Phil Salt (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Chetan Sakariya, Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins, Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, T. Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
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