They have won five games against the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL's opener against CSK in the past, and they will be really interested in doing so as the IPL moves to Dharamsala for the first time this year.
Match information
Great picture: Can PBKS achieve six consecutive wins?
In Tournament story, only two groups have beaten CSK in five consecutive sessions. One is, reliably, Mumbai Indians. The other is PBKS, who started their run in 2021 and won by seven wickets at Chepauk on Wednesday to start it off.
On Sunday, they will be looking to make it six in a row as they take on CSK in Dharamsala, their next house surface. Playing at home, though, has not been successful for PBKS this year, they won just one out of five games in Mullanpur, their main residence surface. They will be hoping that the new facility will result in better wealth and allow them to continue playing in the finals.
CSK are much more easily placed, but as the competition has progressed, their kind has tapered off. Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans, the Royal Challengers, were the first two teams to win the time. But in their last four games, including three at apartment, they have just one succeed.
Ruturaj Gaikwad's miserable success with the toss has certainly helped them both. So far this year, he has lost five of his ten puts on average. But Steyn viewers may have happy memories of Dharamsala. With two balloons to give, Steyn needed 16 to get the final over of Kings XI Punjab in 2010, as they were known next. MS Dhoni hit Irfan Pathan for back-to-back touchdowns to win the match. In a rare show of thoughts, he punched his hat in celebration, thus giving the game one of its memorable occasions.
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Past meet
After opting to plate, PBKS restricted CSK to 162 for 7, with Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar and Rahul Chahar going at less than move a game. With 2.1 wickets left, Jonny Bairstow and Rilee Rossouw led the charge and drove PBKS house.
Team media and influence player strategy
Shikhar Dhawan is still in good health. Sunil Joshi, the spin-bowling manager for PBKS, hoped that he would be ready for the final two sports. Additionally, Joshi added that they wished to keep the winning mix. Prabhsimran Singh and Arshdeep Singh are expected to get their Impact Player selections once again.
Probable XII 1 Prabhsimran Singh, 2 Jonny Bairstow, 3 Rilee Rossouw, 4 Shashank Singh, 5 Sam Curran ( capt ), 6 Jitesh Sharma (wk ), 7 Ashutosh Sharma, 8 Harpreet Brar, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Arshdeep Singh, 12 Rahul Chahar
Tushar Deshpande, who missed the previous activity with fever, is expected to be accessible, but with Deepak Chahar injured and Mustafizur Rahaman having gone back to Bangladesh for federal responsibility, CSK will have to rejig their ball mix. One of Maheesh Theekshana and Mitchell Santner is likely to come in, while Mukesh Choudhary could obtain his next game of the season. Choudhary and Ajinkya Rahane might be the Effects Player choice.
Probable XII 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Ruturaj Gaikwad ( capt ), 3 Daryl Mitchell, 4 Shivam Dube, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni (wk ), 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Tushar Deshpande, 10 Maheesh Theekshana, 11 Matheesha Pathirana, 12 Mukesh Choudhary
In the limelight are Shivam Dube and Harpreet Brar.
Harpreet Brar has just six innings in ten game, but his business rate has been an outstanding 7.21. Among those who have bowled at least 100 balls this season, only Jasprit Bumrah ( 6.25 ), Sunil Narine ( 6.72 ) and Krunal Pandya ( 7.20 ) have better economy rates. Brar won Player of the Match when PBKS faced CSK earlier in the week for his 2 for 17 games, including dismissing Shivam Dube for a first-ball bird.
Because he served as CSK's engine room in the middle overs, Shivam Dube's wicket was critical. In all, he has 350 works at an average of 50.00 and a strike price of 171.56 this year, Gaikwad is the only other CSK flour to traverse 200. If Dube is set, it might not be simple to stop him if both PBKS bowlers Brar and Rahul Chahar turn the ball into him.
Stats that subject
Dhoni has a strike rate of 45.45 against Rabada ( 10 runs off 22 balls, one dismissal ), 55.88 against Rahul Chahar ( 19 off 34, two dismissals ) and 78.12 against Harshal Patel ( 25 off 32, two dismissals ). He has fared much better against Sam Curran and Arshdeep Singh, taking 38 off 17 pellets against Curran and 20 off 14 pellets against Arshdeep. He has n't been bowled by either bowler yet. Arshdeep has allowed just one run in his 19 pellets of play, allowing only one more run for Daryl Mitchell. Rabada has kept Gaikwad silent: 63 goes off 59 balloons, three rejections. Arshdeep, too, has a fine record against Gaikwad: 55 goes off 44 balloons, three rejections. Bairstow has a strike rate of 185.71 against Moeen Ali ( 39 runs off 21 balls, no dismissal ) and 170.00 against Shardul Thakur ( 51 off 30, one dismissal ). But he has found it difficult to score against Ravindra Jadeja: 36 off 31 at a strike rate of 116.12 ( one dismissal ).
Ball and circumstances
Dharamsala has hosted just two T20s in the last seven years and both have been higher- scoring- also, as per post- IPL 2024 standards. Rossouw was in the opposition when PBKS last played here in 2023, when Delhi Capitals posted 213 for 2 and won by 15 runs. Rossouw did so in 2023. The temperature is expected to be around 27°C for this afternoon game.
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