New Delhi: In the IPL, on the evening of April 8, Delhi Capitals will be at their home to take on Gujarat Titans. While Gujarat is coming after losing both its last matches, Delhi has won both its matches. 22 year old Sameer Rizvi is leading the batting for Delhi. If KL Rahul, Nitish Reddy also start scoring runs in the top order, then the team will become even stronger. In contrast, Gujarat Titans is faltering in both batting and bowling. Neither his batsmen nor his bowlers are working.
Rizvi has hit three consecutive fifties
Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka had found his rhythm in the last match here, which will give him the necessary confidence to face the pair of Gujarat Titans fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Mohammed Siraj in the powerplay. Sameer Rizvi, who scored his third consecutive half-century in the IPL (one half-century was scored in his last match of the last season), is in aggressive form, he already had the ability to thrash the spinners, but now he is not sparing even the fast bowlers.
Delhi is on fire in both batting and bowling
Among the bowlers for Delhi, Mukesh Kumar has performed brilliantly so far, while captain Akshar Patel has been effective in both the powerplay and middle overs. Lungi Ngidi has provided strength to Delhi’s bowling unit, which also includes T Natarajan and wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav. Gujarat Titans seem to be overly dependent on their top order batsmen and their middle order is not performing.
Will Shubman Gill play the next match?
Middle-order batsmen like Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar and Rahul Tewatia need to perform better under pressure. Captain Shubman Gill could not play the last match due to a muscle strain, but acting captain Rashid Khan said that he will be fully fit for the important match against Delhi Capitals.
GT looking completely colorless
Gujarat Titans team has lost its first two matches and the performance of its bowlers was also not good. Both Siraj and Rabada have proved to be a bit expensive, while Prasidh Krishna has not been able to maintain consistency in his performance. The positive thing for Gujarat Titans is that Rashid has found his rhythm at the very beginning of the competition. Gujarat’s most impressive bowler has been 23-year-old fast bowler Ashok Sharma.
Will runs be scored or wickets fall in Delhi?
Usually a lot of runs are scored on the Kotla pitch, but this did not happen in the afternoon match last week and the Mumbai Indians team could score only 162 runs. It remains to be seen how the pitch here behaves in the evening session matches in April.
Delhi Capitals Squad: Axar Patel (captain), Abhishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Madhav Tiwari, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Tripurana Vijay, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Aqib Nabi Dar, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson, T Natarajan, Ajay Jadav Mandal and Sahil Parakh.
Gujarat Titans Squad: Shubman Gill (captain), Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Shahrukh Khan, Glenn Phillips, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Nishant Sindhu, Rahul Tewatia, Washington Sundar, Gurnoor Brar, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada, Ravishrinivasan Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Prithvi Raj Yera, Luke Wood, Sai Sudarshan and Arshad Khan.
