The new team of the IPL 2016 will face each other in the 6th match Gujarat Lions vs Rising Pune Supergiants on 14th April 2016 at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot. As per schedule Indian Premier League 9 will start from 9 April 2016 to 29 May 2016. These two new teams have got this opportunity for two years by replacing the suspended teams. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royal are suspended for two years for their role in illegal match fixing. This match will be the first time when these two new teams will be playing against each other. To get updated with the live score card and results of GL vs RPS IPL 9 refer this post.
Both the teams have mostly included the members of the suspended teams. The former CSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will now be leading Pune team and Stephen Fleming, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin are some of the other key players in the team. While Dhoni’s former teammate Suresh Raina is the captain of Gujarat team. The key players for Gujarat side are Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo and Brendon McCullum. Both the teams are looking equally balanced so a very exciting encounter is expected from the match Gujarat vs Pune.
Gujarat Lions (GL) Squad: Suresh Raina, Akshdeep Nath, Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch, Ishan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Dinesh Karthik, Shivil Kaushik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Brendon McCullum, Pradeep Sangwan, Jaydev Shah, Umang Sharma, Dwayne Smith, Dale Steyn, Pravin Tambe, Andrew Tye
Rising Pune Supergiants squad: MS Dhoni (Captain), Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Scott Boland, Deepak Chahar, Ashok Dinda, Francoisdu Plessis, Peter Handscomb, Jaskaran Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Albie Morkel, Ishwar Pandey, Irfan Pathan, ThisaraPerera, Kevin Pietersen, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Steve Smith, Saurabh Tiwary, Adam Zampa
Match 6th GL vs RPS IPL 2016 | ||
Vs | ||
Venue | Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot | |
Date | 14th April 2016 | |
Time | 8:00 pm (Local Time) | |
Toss | RPS won the toss chose to bat |
Score :
Rising Pune Supergiants: 163/5 in 20 overs
Gujarat Lions: 164/ 3 in 18 overs
Match Result: GL won the match by 7 wickets
Man of the Match : Aaron Finch
Here is the full Scorecard GL vs RPS Match :
RPS Innings:
BATSMEN | RUNS | BALLS | SR | 4S | 6S | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajinkya Rahane | lbw Pravin Tambe | 21 | 17 | 123.52 | 4 | 0 | |
Francois du Plessis | st Dinesh Karthik b Pravin Tambe | 69 | 43 | 160.46 | 5 | 4 | |
Kevin Pietersen | b Dwayne Bravo | 37 | 31 | 119.35 | 2 | 1 | |
Steve Smith | c James Faulkner b Ravindra Jadeja | 5 | 6 | 83.33 | 0 | 0 | |
MS Dhoni | NOT OUT | 22 | 10 | 220.00 | 2 | 1 | |
Mitchell Marsh | b Ravindra Jadeja | 7 | 11 | 63.63 | 0 | 0 | |
Rajat Bhatia | NOT OUT | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
EXTRAS | (b 1, lb 1) | 2 | |||||
TOTAL | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 163 |
GL Bowling :
BOWLER | O | R | W | ECON | DOTS | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Praveen Kumar | 2 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 | 6 | |
Shadab Jakati | 4 | 40 | 0 | 10.00 | 5 | |
Pravin Tambe | 4 | 33 | 2 | 8.25 | 7 | |
Dwayne Bravo | 4 | 43 | 1 | 10.75 | 6 | |
Ravindra Jadeja | 4 | 18 | 2 | 4.50 | 14 | |
James Faulkner | 2 | 15 | 0 | 7.50 | 3 |
BATSMEN | RUNS | BALLS | SR | 4S | 6S | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaron Finch | c Ishant Sharma b Murugan Ashwin | 50 | 36 | 138.88 | 7 | 2 | |
Brendon McCullum | c Francois du Plessis b Ishant Sharma | 49 | 31 | 158.06 | 3 | 3 | |
Suresh Raina | st MS Dhoni b Murugan Ashwin | 24 | 24 | 100.00 | 1 | 0 | |
Dwayne Bravo | NOT OUT | 22 | 10 | 220.00 | 3 | 1 | |
Ravindra Jadeja | NOT OUT | 4 | 8 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | |
EXTRAS | (nb 1, w 7, b 2, lb 5) | 15 | |||||
TOTAL | (3 wickets; 18 overs) | 164 |
Rising Pune Supergiants Bowling:
BOWLER | O | R | W | ECON | DOTS | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RP Singh | 2 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 | 5 | |
Ishant Sharma | 4 | 39 | 1 | 9.75 | 7 | |
Ravichandran Ashwin | 4 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | 13 | |
Murugan Ashwin | 4 | 31 | 2 | 7.75 | 10 | |
Rajat Bhatia | 3 | 30 | 0 | 10.00 | 6 | |
Mitchell Marsh | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 | 0 |