Match particulars
Gujarat Titans (sixth) vs Delhi Capitals (ninth)
Ahmedabad, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)
Large image – Gill’s Titans vs Pant’s Capitals
Rashid might be the person Titans use to counter Gill’s counterpart, Rishabh Pant, who comes into this contest with 194 runs at a strike charge of 157, having scored two-half centuries and a match-winning 41 off 24 balls in Capitals’ most up-to-date fixture in Lucknow. Their head-to-head document in all T20s reads 94 runs off 87 balls for 2 dismissals.
The Capitals might need made up for Mitchell Marsh’s absence by means of Jake Fraser-McGurk, who scored a fifty towards Lucknow, and so they have been additionally boosted by Kuldeep Yadav’s three-wicket haul on comeback from harm, however they now face a brand new drawback. David Warner had suffered a finger harm whereas batting towards LSG and hasn’t been capable of “maintain the bat correctly but,” in accordance with Delhi’s head coach Ricky Ponting. That leaves them trying to find one other repair to their batting line-up forward of a sport they should win to keep away from remaining in ninth place on the mid-way level of their IPL 2024 marketing campaign.
Type information
(Final 5 matches; most up-to-date first)
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Crew information and Impression Participant technique
Gujarat Titans
Titans lastly picked M Shahrukh Khan of their earlier sport after he spent the primary six matches on the bench regardless of being signed for INR 7.4 crore. Approaching as Impression Participant for Mohit Sharma, he smashed 14 off eight balls in what turned out to be a last-ball win for Titans.
Possible XII: 1 Shubman Gill (capt), 2 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 3 Sai Sudharsan, 4 Vijay Shankar, 5 David Miller, 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Noor Ahmad, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Spencer Johnson, 11 Mohit Sharma, 12 Shahrukh Khan
Delhi Capitals
With Warner more likely to be unavilable, Capitals may begin with Abishek Porel in the event that they bat first and with Jhye Richardson in the event that they chase.
Possible XII: 1 Prithvi Shaw, 2 Abishek Porel, 3 Shai Hope, 4 Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Axar Patel, 7 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Mukesh Kumar, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Khaleel Ahmed, 12 Jhye Richardson
Rashid Khan’s bowling type has improved in Titans’ final two matches•BCCI
Within the highlight
The highest three wicket-takers in IPL 2023 have been all from Titans. One in every of them, Mohit Sharma, is their main wicket-taker this season too. His eight wickets in six video games have come at 27 apiece, although he has been taken for 9.39 runs an over. However when Mohit is bowling in Ahmedabad, his common slides right down to 13.03 and economic system to 7.82, so he might have an effect together with his variations towards Capitals.
Stats that matter
Tristan Stubbs, one other of Capitals’ in-form batters, has had the higher hand over Rashid of their early face-offs . He is scored 22 runs off 9 balls from Rashid in T20s, and hit three of them for sixes.
Miller has a strike charge of 288 towards Ishant Sharma, whom he has smacked for 2 fours and three sixes in 9 deliveries in T20s. He is hit Mukesh Kumar, for twenty-four off eight balls and has strike charges of 171 and 168 towards Khaleel Ahmed and Axar Patel.
Pitch and circumstances
Ahmedabad had first-innings scores of 168 and 162 in two matches, however that went as much as 199 when Titans performed Punjab Kings. The final two video games have been gained by the chasing group, so anticipate the aspect profitable the toss to bowl first.
Himanshu Agrawal is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo