Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya won the toss against Nitish Rana of Kolkata Knight Riders in the 39th match of IPL 2023 on Saturday. anyhow.
The defending champions, GT went with the same playing XI from their previous match, however, Rana revealed that there were two changes to their team, Umesh Yadav had a slight hamstring problem and was rested, while Jason Roy returned to the bench. I was suffering from cramps and was given rest. Also rested, Harshit Rana and Rahmanullah Gurbaj come into the playing XI.
Pandya insisted that his team would like to maintain their winning streak and stay in the top four.
“We will bowl first. Just because of the weather, it was light when we came and we thought we should bat, but now it has changed. I am very happy with where we are, 7 games gone, 7 more to come We need to play good cricket and qualify for the playoffs. We will learn from the defeats as well, but we need to play some consistent cricket. We are playing the same team,” Pandya said during the toss.
Interestingly, Shubman Gill, Sreekar Bharath, Ravishrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shivam Mavi and Jayant Yadav were among Gujarat Titans’ impressive subs.
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Nitish Rana, on the other hand, said that his team can improve on a lot of things and would like to gain some momentum. Two forced changes in Rana’s favour.
“We would have batted first, DLS could have come into the equation, but we would have still batted first. There are always areas where we can improve, we’ve made some forced changes – Jason Roy has a back problem, he’s been replaced by Gurbaz. Harshit Rana replaces Umesh Yadav,” said Rana.
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Suyash Sharma was named in the Impact Sub and he is likely to come on when KKR bowl.
KKR’s Impact Subs – Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya.
Teams:
Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha (w), Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya (c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Joshua Little
Kolkata Knight Riders: N Jagadeesan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
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