The fourth match of this year’s IPL will take place today in a couple of few hours. In this year’s IPL edition this is going to be the first match to be played in the weekend. The match will start at 4 pm as there are two matches to be played today.
The Kings XI Punjab will face the Rising Pune Supergiant at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore. There is huge anticipation about the probable squad (Playing 11) of both the teams.
Even Rising Pune Supergiant is high on confidence after defeating Mumbai Indians (MI) by 7 wickets, Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) will today (April 8) face Kings XI Punjab (KXIP).
RPS captain Steve Smith led from the front with an unbeaten 84 as they successfully chased down 185 against MI in Pune on April 6.
The Punjab Team has undergone a completely gone a transformation by changing its coach and captain both. This is going to be the opening game for KingsXI side.
This team will be led by Glenn Maxwell this year who is very likely to open the match along with the young Manan Vohra. The middle order is likely to consist of Eoin Morgan, Wriddhiman Saha and David Miller. These three players are hard hitters with the bat and will be crucial for the Punjab team.
The All-rounders from Punjab are Axar Patel and Marcus Stoinis. The seam bowlers like Ishant Sharma, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma would be most likely pitched in the squad. KC Cariappa as the spinner would hopefully be playing for this team as well.
Whereas the Pune team will be playing their second match today. It was an amazing start for the Supergiants as they had emerged victorious defeating the Mumbai Indians. The openers for today’s match are likely to be Ajinkya Rahane who had already put up a brilliant show with 60 of 34 balls in the previous game. Mostly Mayank Agarwal will partner with Rahane.
The middle order definitely should be strong for any team and most likely the Pune team will have skipper Steven Smith who is in outstanding form along with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Manoj Tiwary. Rajat Bhatia and Ben Stokes are all-rounder players who are likely to play today’s match owing to their wonderful performance in the last match. Imran Tahir had picked up 3 wickets in the last match conceding just 28 runs which make him worthy of earning a spot in the team.
Here is the likely Pune XI for their match against Punjab XI:
1.) Ajinkya Rahane 1.) Manan Vohra
2.) Mayank Agarwal 2.) Glenn Maxwell (captain)*
3.) Steve Smith (captain)* 3.) Wriddhiman Saha (wk)
4.) Ben Stokes 4.) Eoin Morgan
5.) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wicketkeeper) 5.) David Miller
6.) Manoj Tiwary 6.) Marcus Stoinis
7.) Rajat Bhatia 7.) Axar Patel
8.) Imran Tahir 8.) KC Cariappa
9.) Adam Zampa 9.)Sandeep Sharma
10.) Deepak Chahar 10.) Mohit Sharma
11.) Jaydev Unadkat 11.) T Natarajan/Varun Aaron
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