Lucknow bat first, KL Rahul Affect participant

Lucknow Tremendous Giants Subs

Ashton Turner, Naveen-ul-Haq, Amit Mishra, Deepak Hooda, Ok Gowtham

Punjab Kings Subs

Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Roussouw, Tanay Thagarajan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harpreet Bhatia

Nicholas Pooran speaks

KL is getting back from harm and we’re trying to give him a break in such a protracted event, however he’ll play as an affect participant at this time. Everybody should take the alternatives and carry out at their greatest.

Lucknow Tremendous Giants Taking part in XI

Quinton de Kock(w), KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran(c), Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth

Punjab Kings Taking part in XI

Shikhar Dhawan(c), Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma(w), Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh

KL Rahul Affect Participant

KL Rahul just isn’t dominated out. He’ll play as an Affect Participant, confirms Nicholas Pooran. He’s coming back from an harm and it’s carried out to handle his workload and ease him again within the event.

Toss replace

Nicholas Pooran has gained the toss on captaincy debut in IPL and he has opted to bat.

Mayank Yadav makes debut

Proper-arm medium pacer Mayank Yadav makes debut for LSG and he will get the cap from Krunal Pandya.

Nicholas Pooran captain

KL Rahul appears to be out of the LSG vs PBKS conflict as Nicholas Pooran makes approach for the toss. An harm concern once more? Undecided but.

Ekana Pitch Report

How does the pitch look? Ekana has confronted a whole lot of criticism for its gradual nature. However there may be grass on the pitch with no cracks. Though dew may very well be an element nonetheless, the pitch appears to be like good for batting. As for dimensions, it’s 61m and 68m on the 2 sides with a 76m straight boundary.

Giants arrive at Ekana

Punjab Kings able to rock

KL Rahul

For KL Rahul, it’s nonetheless unclear if he ought to bat within the center order for a spot within the T20 World Cup squad. He opened the innings for LSG within the first match. Nonetheless, he should bat within the center order and rating runs as the highest order in Group India is packed up.

PBKS purpose to bounce again

Regardless of a successful begin towards DC, PBKS suffered an away loss to RCB. Now, they should burry the demons of Lucknow and get again to successful.

Can LSG open their account?

LSG suffered a 20-run loss to Rajasthan Royals of their opening match. Regardless of KL Rahul top-scoring with 58 runs, his sluggish method did elevate eybrows. The opposite issues are LSG’s middle-order that failed towards RR. Their bowling too in absence of Mark Wooden isn’t world class.