This certain match between Gujarat Lions and Rising Pune Supergiant is already making headlines because the star Sir Ravindra Jadeja is making a comeback. He was taking a break from cricket after a long, grueling home season where his spinning finger must have taken a lot of wear-n-tear. They will take on RPS, which is looking like a side that is shaping up pretty well, but the odds are against them as they have lost both their matches they player last season against GL. Steven Smith is in red-hot form but RPS supporters will be dearly hoping to see Mahendra Singh Dhoni back to making runs. He has not been in the best of touches and Sourav Ganguly has already said that he does not really have it in him anymore. Gujarat Lions on the other hand will rely heavily on their star-studded top order to deliver, Brendon McCullum and Dwayne Smith.
The match is the first of the double-header today and starts at 16:00 hrs. You can watch it on Sony Max and Sony Six also live stream it on Hotstar.
The match starts at 08:00 IST.
The likely XIs
Rising Pune Supergiant: 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Mayank Agarwal, 3 Steven Smith 4 Ben Stokes, 5 MS Dhoni (wk), 6 Manoj Tiwary, 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Adam Zampa, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Imran Tahir, 11 Ashok Dinda/Shardul Thakur
Gujarat Lions: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Aaron Finch, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 James Faulkner, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Tejas Baroka/Basil Thampi, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Shivil Kaushik
The final line-ups will be released at the toss.
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