Rising Pune Supergiants vs Gujarat Lions 25th T20 at Pune, 29 Apr, 2016

Toss: Gujarat Lions, who chose to bowl
Rising Pune Supergiants 195/4 (20)
Gujarat Lions 196/7 (20)
Gujarat Lions won by 3 wickets
Man of the Match: Dwayne Smith
  • Praveen Kumar 0 * (0)
  • James Faulkner 9 * (5)

  Over 1.0   

Suresh Raina: We are bowling first. It looks a bit green. But might slow down. There might be something with the new ball. We need to bowl in good areas. I think we bowled well in the last game. I think it was a very good game against GL. PK bowled a very good 19th over and Bravo bowled well, too. When the match is not over, you have to keep pushing harder and that is what we did in the last game. Finch is injured and Tambe got injured in the last game. Shivil Kaushik is playing. He has done pretty well for Karnataka in the domestic circuit. Hopefully, he will do well."

MS Dhoni: I think it is a combination of green and the breeze. I know the fast bowlers will swing over here. It is hard underneath. I have not played enough games over here and whatever we have played, it has played differently. There are a couple of changes. Faf du Plessis has had a finger problem (ruled out). Mitchell Marsh is injured. Handscomb and Albie Morkel are playing. When we have won a couple of games, we have done well in all 3 departments and that is what we have to take as benchmarks.

Gujarat Lions have won the toss and have opted to field

Over 0.1Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets beaten on the frontfoot by that good delivery.No runs

Over 0.2Praveen Kumar bowls short of length delivery to AM Rahane, goes back and cuts it away towards the thirdman region.Boundary!

Over 0.3Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, opens up on the backfoot to defend that infront of middle.No runs

Over 0.4Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 0.5Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, flicks it off his pads towards the mid wicket regionSingle

Over 0.6Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to SS Tiwary, gets forward and defends it towards point.No runs

  Over 2.0   

Over 1.1DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets beaten on the frontfoot by that good delivery.No runs

Over 1.2DS Kulkarni bowls wideball to AM Rahane, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.Wide ball

Over 1.2DS Kulkarni bowls pitched up delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and drives it straight down the groundBoundary!

Over 1.3DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and defends it towards covers.No runs

Over 1.4DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and defends it towards mid on.Single

Over 1.5DS Kulkarni bowls short of length delivery to SS Tiwary, goes back and across to play a square cut past backward point.Single

Over 1.6DS Kulkarni bowls pitched up delivery to AM Rahane, flicks it off his pads towards the deep mid wicket regionSingle

  Over 3.0   

Over 2.1Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 2.2Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets beaten on the frontfoot by that good delivery.No runs

Over 2.3Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, the batsman is short of his crease at the non-striker’s end and is Run Out! .Runout at the striker end

Over 2.4Praveen Kumar bowls pitched up delivery to SPD Smith, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!

Over 2.5Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to SPD Smith, gets forward and defends it towards point.No runs

Over 2.6Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to SPD Smith, gets forward and guides it away towards thirdman.Single

  Over 4.0   

Over 3.1DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to SPD Smith, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to covers.Single

Over 3.2DS Kulkarni bowls short of length delivery to AM Rahane, opens up on the backfoot to defend that infront of middle.No runs

Over 3.3DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and guides it away towards thirdman.Single

Over 3.4DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to SPD Smith, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Single

Over 3.5DS Kulkarni bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and defends it towards the bowler.No runs

Over 3.6DS Kulkarni bowls short of length delivery to AM Rahane, gets forward and guides it away towards thirdman.Single

  Over 5.0   

Over 4.1Praveen Kumar bowls good length delivery to AM Rahane, flicks it off his pads towards the backward squareleg regionSingle

Over 4.2Praveen Kumar bowls half volley to SPD Smith, leans forward and drives it gloriously past covers for a boundary.Boundary!

Over 4.3Praveen Kumar bowls pitched up delivery to SPD Smith, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!

Over 4.4Praveen Kumar bowls pitched up delivery to SPD Smith, gets forward and drives it wide of mid off.Two runs

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