IPL 2022

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Starts overnight tonight. Chennai v Kolkata (first ball at 1 am AEDST). That's a replay of last year's final (played just back in October, because the season was intially deferred because of COVID).

Likely starting 11s would be:

Chennai:

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Devon Conway, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja (capt), Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni (wk), Dwayne Bravo, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Chris Jordan, Adam Milne

(full squad is Ravindra Jadeja (c), MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Robin Uthappa, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, KM Asif, Shivam Dube, Maheesh Theekshana, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Samarjeet Singh, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Subhranshu Senapati, Adam Milne, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, K Bhagath Varma)

Kolkata:

Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer (capt), Nitish Rana, Sam Billings (wk), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Chamika Karunaratne, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Umesh Yadav

(full squad is Pat Cummins, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, B Indrajith, Abhijeet Tomar, Pratham Singh, Ashok Sharma, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Umesh Yadav, Aman Khan)

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KKR beat CSK in a low-scoring affair, chasing.

There's not much sensible to say about a competition in which Conway (3 from 8) is bought at auction and Smith isn't - but, well, there you are. Good for Australia, bad for CSK.

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Match 2, Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians. First ball at 9pm (less than an hour from now).

Likely starting 11s would be:

Delhi:

Prithvi Shaw, Tim Seifert, KS Bharat, Rovman Powell, Rishabh Pant (c/wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Khaleel Ahmed, Kuldeep Yadav, Chetan Sakariya.

(full squad is Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Mitch Marsh, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Ashwin Hebbar, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, KS Bharat, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungi Ngidi, Tim Seifert, Vicky Ostwal.)

Mumbai:

Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Anmolpreet Singh, Tilak Verma, Kieron Pollard, Tim David, Daniel Sams, Sanjay Yadav, Mayank Markande/Murugan Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah and Tymal Mills

(full squad is Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Ishan Kishan, Dewald Brevis, Basil Thampi, Murugan Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, N Tilak Varma, Sanjay Yadav, Jofra Archer, Daniel Sams, Tymal Mills, Tim David, Riley Meredith, Mohammad Arshad Khan, Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, Fabian Allen.)

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And for the late game (kick-off 1 am AEDST):

Match 3, Punjab Kings v. Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Likely starting 11s would be:

Punjab :

Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal (c), Liam Livingstone, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Shahrukh Khan, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Odean Smith, Harpreet Brar, Sandeep Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh

(full squad is Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal(C), Liam Livingstone, Shahrukh Khan, Jitesh Sharma(WK), Odean Smith, Rishi Dhawan, Harpreet Brar, Sandeep Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Ishan Porel, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Prabhsimran Singh(WK), Benny Howell, Vaibhav Arora, Ansh Patel, Writtick Chatterjee, Prerak Mankad, Atharva Taide, Rajangad Bawa, Jonny Bairstow(WK), Kagiso Rabada)

Bangalore:

Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror, Sherfane Rutherford, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj

(full squad is Faf du Plessis(C), Anuj Rawat(WK), Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror, Sherfane Rutherford, Dinesh Karthik(WK), Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Suyash Prabhudessai, Siddarth Kaul, Finn Allen, Karn Sharma, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Jason Behrendorff, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Glenn Maxwell, Luvnith Sisodia(WK))

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First up - Mumbai is sent in by Delhi. Just underway. 0/4. No, make that 10.

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End of the PP. Mumbai 0/53 after 6.

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Mumbai finished with 177. Kishan was the star with 81* from 48 balls. Rohit also made 41 from 32.

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The Capitals ran down the target with ease.

In the second game, Faf and Virat have been thumping the ball about for Bangalore. Faf just out. 2/177 after 18.1 overs.

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Karthik lifted Bangalore to 2/205 with a 32 off 14 cameo.

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But Punjab ran down the total - 5/208 from 19 overs.

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Tonight (first ball 1 am, AEDST), in Match 4, Lucknow Super Giants play Gujurat Titans. Two expansion teams go head to head.

Squads are:

Gujurat

Shubman Gill, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Wriddhiman Saha, Abhinav Manohar, Vijay Shankar, Hardik Pandya, Rahul Tewatia, Dominic Drakes, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Alzarri Joseph, Pradeep Sangwan, David Miller, Matthew Wade, Gurkeerat Singh, B Sai Sudharshan.

Lucknow

KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Jason Holder, K Gowtham, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Andrew Tye, Dushmantha Chameera, Ankit Rajpoot, Shahbaz Nadeem, Manan Vohra, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Mayank Yadav, Kyle Mayers, K Gowtham, Evin Lewis.

[Donny]

I'm looking forward to this one.

Some of my favourite players - Wado, Stoins, Rahul, Rashid and Pandya - involved.

Titans won the toss and elected to bowl.

[Donny]

The Titans won.

Rahul out to the first ball of the match. An edge to Wade from Shami.

Shami took 3/25 as the Super Giants scored 6/158.

In chase, Wade hit a run-a-ball 30, opening. The Titans won by 5 wickets with 2 balls left.

Stoinis and Tye didn't play.

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Tonight, Match 5 Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals. 1st ball 1 am (AEDST).

Likely 11s:

Hyderabad:

Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma/R Samarth, Kane Williamson (captain), Nicholas Pooran (wicket-keeper), Aidan Markram, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Jansen, Umran Malik, T Natarajan/Kartik Tyagi

(full squad is Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Nicholas Pooran, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Karik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Romario Shepherd, Sean Abbott, R Samarth, Saurabh Dubey, Shashank Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Philips, Fazalhaq Farooqi)

Rajasthan:

Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (captain, wicket-keeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, R Ashwin, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna

(full squad is Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, R Ashwin, Trent Boult, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Riyan Parag, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Anunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, Jimmy Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Daryl Mitchell.)

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The Royals batted first and put up 6/210 (Samson 55 from 27, Padikkal 41 from 29, Buttler 35 from 28 and Hetmeyer 32 from 13).

The Sunrisers' decision to let Warner go in the off-season was fully vindicated by giving Williamson the opportunity to open. His 2 from 7 helped the team to 3/9 in just under 5 overs. The early collapse was followed by a middle-order collapse that got them to 6/78. Markram (57* from 41) and Sundar (40 from 14) saved the Sunrisers some blushes and saw them finish the chase on 7/149. Never in the hunt. Samson was named POTM.