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CLAIM NOWToss Winner - Konark Suryas Odisha won the toss and choose to bowl first
Konark Suryas Odisha beat Gujarat Greats by 7 wickets
Can Konark Suryas Odisha finish the group stages on a high with a win? Will Gujarat Greats spoil their party?
Our prediction is for Konark Suryas Odisha to win.
Tournament: | Legends League Cricket, 2024 |
Format: | t20 |
Venue: | Bakshi Stadium, Wazir Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir., India, India |
Toss Prediction: | To Bowl |
Weather: | 34.1°C|Sunny |
Konark Suryas Odisha and Gujarat Greats are set to face off in the last match of the legends league T20 this Friday.
The team from Odisha sit in the fifth spot, level on points with the third-placed India Capitals and fourth-placed Manipal Tigers: 6 points from 6 matches.
Their NRR is the lowest of the three teams tied on 6 points. The Konark Suryas come into this match with a simple ask: get a win in their last match to make it through to the playoffs. A terrible campaign where they suffered defeat after defeat saw Gujarat Greats slide down to the bottom.
They are out of the competition after eking out only one victory in six matches so far. These teams haven’t met each other before, and, with a chance to advance to the knockouts riding on the win, Konark Suryas will be eager to get out there and play to their level best.
100/9 in 20.0 5
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Toyam Hyderabad beat Konark Suryas Odisha by 4 wickets
101/6 in 18.2 5.51
122/7 in 20.0 6.1
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Konark Suryas Odisha won by 5 runs
127/4 in 20.0 6.35
192/9 in 20.0 9.6
195/2 in 16.0 12.19
104/9 in 20.0 5.2
102/8 in 20.0 5.1
135/6 in 20.0 6.75
134/6 in 20.0 6.7
129/2 in 14.3 8.9
123/7 in 20.0 6.15
144/9 in 20.0 7.2
118/9 in 20.0 5.9
172/7 in 20.0 8.6
174/2 in 19.3 8.92
With just two points needed for qualification to the playoff stages on their debut, Konark Suryas Odisha will fancy their chances coming up against Gujarat Greats a side that’s in crisis, struggling to win a match.
Bowlers were instrumental in both their victories, defending low below-par totals against oppositions with powerful strikers of the ball. Shahbaz Nadeem, in particular, has impressed with both his economy rate and strike rate, picking 3 for 43 in his 8 overs to help his team defend low totals successfully. Former Sri Lankan player Dilshan Munaweera has made a mark with his off spinners and so has Pravin Tambe with his leggies.
But the former Sri Lankan player used this platform well to showcase his all-round skills, picking up 5 wickets for 56 runs off his 10 overs and scoring 111 runs at 27.75 off 4 games so far in the competition including a well-compiled 51 in a losing cause against Toyam Hyderabad.
Richard Levi with a swashbuckling 63 off 21 and Kevin O Brien with an industrious 55 off 46 have been the only two other half centurions with the bat for Konark Suryas Odisha. Lack of runs from the bat of Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ross Taylor is a big sign of concern for the team as they go deeper.
Ross Taylor, Richard Levi(w), Irfan Pathan(c), Yusuf Pathan, Jesse Ryder, Dilshan Munaweera, Kevon Cooper, Kevin O Brien, Shahbaz Nadeem, Diwesh Pathania, KP Appanna.
Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Pravin Tambe, Kevon Cooper, Kevin O'Brien, Richard Levi, Vinay Kumar, KP Appanna, Dilshan Munaweera, Shahbaz Nadeem, Diwesh Pathania
Gujarat Greats have themselves to blame for their bottom finish on the points table, especially their batters who have in many instances failed to post enough runs on the board for their bowlers to play with. Barring their first match, in which they chased 174 easily, the batting unit has hardly turned up for the contest.
They stuttered in the chase of 145 in the next match and failed to cross 140 batting first in their next three attempts. Dhawan and Kaif have made their runs at less than run a ball, and Gayle who generally scores them quick has failed to make a big score despite getting off to a brisk start on a couple of occasions.
Left arm spinner Manan Sharma with 16 wickets from 5 games, including a 5-fer and a 4-fer, has been outstanding for the Gujarat Greats right from game one. He has had excellent from another spinner Seekkuge Prasanna who has kept things neat and tidy and picked up the odd wicket to take his tally to 5 wickets from 5 games.
The rest of the attack has been pretty ordinary and not made life difficult for the opposition batsmen.
Morne van Wyk, Shikhar Dhawan (c), Chris Gayle, Mohammad Kaif, Manan Sharma, Yashpal Singh, Debabrata Das (wk), Seekkuge Prasanna, Asghar Afghan, Kamau Leverock, S Sreesanth, Samar Quadri
Chris Gayle, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammad Kaif, S Sreesanth, Debabrata Das, Yashpal Singh, Jerome Taylor, Morne van Wyk, Seekkuge Prasanna, Kamau Leverock, Manan Sharma
The Srinagar surface has been generally good to bat on. With one score above 180 and two over 150, this pitch has certainly played better than the ones we got to see in Jodhpur, Surat and Jammu. The weather gods have been kind of late after four matches in a row had to be called off due to incessant rain. And the forecast for the match is clear.
This match is being played at the Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar.
Opting to bowl first has proven to be a great decision for many teams in this tournament with chasing teams winning 8 matches, managing one tie, and getting so close to the target only to be denied by 1 run and 2 runs on two occasions. By that logic, chasing seems to be a prudent decision and the go-to choice for the toss winning captain
Konark Suryas Odisha have most of their bases covered with both bat and ball. They’ve come this far with the Pathan brothers barely firing, and when they go off, the Konark Suryas Odisha will be hard to beat.
Our prediction is for Konark Suryas Odisha to win.
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