🏏IPL2022 M71,1st Qualifier: Gujarat Titans vs Rajasthan Royals 🏏

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For us, cricket is more than just a game; it is a form of worship in the summer evening, the action will transfer effortlessly from the ground to our drawing rooms, a playful debate, a passionate disagreement, a bouncer here and a catch of words there, but there will always be an interesting silence to watch the high octave moments on the field!

Gujarat Titans will be squaring off against Rajasthan Royals for the second time in the first Qualifier match of this season of the Tata IPL.

Both the teams have been outstanding throughout the league stages.

Gujarat Titans ended at the top of the group stage points table of this season of the Tata IPL whereas Rajasthan Royals finished at the second spot on the points table.

Gujarat Titans played fourteen matches in this season of the Tata IPL where they won ten matches while Rajasthan Royals also played fourteen matches in this season where they managed to win nine of their games.

Gujarat Titans played their last game against Royal Challengers Bangalore, where Royal Challengers Bangalore beat them by 8 wickets.

Hardik Pandya and David Miller smashed 62 runs and 34 runs respectively for Gujarat Titans in that game. Rashid Khan picked a couple of scalps for the side.

On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals played their last game against Chennai Super Kings where they won the game by 5 wickets.

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ravichandran Ashwin stacked 59 runs and 40 runs respectively for Rajasthan Royals in that game.

Yuzvendra Chahal and Obed McCoy hunted a couple of scalps each.

The last time they played against each other in this season, Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan Royals by 37 runs.

The winner of this game will directly enter the finals of the Tata IPL 2022 while the loser will get another opportunity to make it to the finals.

Sunshine at Eden Gardens, toss likely at 7:00PM IST

Will try to be here at toss time

If you believe in fairytales, there's one to be scripted in the Indian Premier League 2022.

Of the four teams that have progressed to the playoffs, two of them are playing their maiden season, one is chasing their elusive first title, and the other has only finished in the top two after 2008 - a season they were crowned champions.

Whether history will repeat itself or a coeval tale will be penned, the first step towards that coveted trophy will be taken when the best chasers go up against the best defenders this season in the Qualifier 1.

Probable Playing XIs:

Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Hardik Pandya (c), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Mohammad Shami

Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Obed McCoy

Weather Report:

The temperature is expected to hover around 31°C on the matchday with 72% humidity and 11-14 km/hr wind speed. There are 56% chances of precipitation during the game.

GT vs RR Tata IPL 2022 Qualifier 1 Pitch Report:

The pitch at Eden Gardens is considered a better batting track although spinners tend to come into action as the match progresses. The pacers also have had some success on this pitch early on ever since the soil used for this pitch was changed. The pitch is expected to behave similarly in this match as well.

Average 1st innings score:

The average first innings score on this wicket is 155 runs.

Record of chasing teams:

The team batting second has great records here. They have maintained a winning percentage of 60 on this ground.

Wriddhiman Saha is a right-handed batsman from Gujarat Titans. He did not play the last head-to-head game against Rajasthan Royals but looked in great touch in the last few matches.

Hardik Pandya is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler from Gujarat Titans. He stacked 87 runs and took 1 wicket in the last head-to-head match against Rajasthan Royals.

Jos Buttler is a right-handed batsman from Rajasthan Royals. He hammered 54 runs in the last head-to-head game against Gujarat Titans and will be aiming to make it big here as well. He will be a top-choice pick for the GT vs RR Dream11 Prediction team.

Ravichandran Ashwin is a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler from Rajasthan Royals. He will be another useful pick to consider for this game.

Shimron Hetmyer is a left-handed batsman from Rajasthan Royals. He smashed 29 runs in the last head-to-head game against Gujarat Titans and can come in handy once again here. He will be a top-choice pick for the GT vs RR Dream11 Prediction team.

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Gujarat Titans, suffered a loss in their final game of the league stage against the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

The Hardik Pandya-led side still has a lot of positives going their way despite the loss and they will be looking to be wiser with their lines and lengths instead of changing the personnel.

Alzarri Joseph might replace Lockie Ferguson who did go for a few runs in the previous game.

Traditionally, the Eden Gardens pitch has assisted spin bowlers and both teams have a quality spin attack, which will be a great battle to watch.

The skipper that wins the toss will be looking to bat first as the pressure of the chase can be difficult to cope with.

Disclaimer : From Crictracker.

Friends, please note this point. From today onwards, the points for each qualifier Match (3) will be like this -

-Winning Team points[]

25

-Man of the Match (1 option)

10

-Hit the most 6s (2 options)

5

-Takes the majority of wickets (2 options)

5

-Making the most runs (2 options)

5

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Please check the next post....

16:44: Rains continue to stay away from Kolkata with a little over two hours to go for the toss.

14:51: It has stopped raining in Kolkata for now. It's bright and sunny.

1 In case of Rain or because of any disruption, the match cancels, then all the 15 players will get half points for each category. > 12.5 > 5> 2.5 > 2.5 >2.5

2 If at least 5 overs (per side) of normal play possible at the Eden Gardens between Rajasthan and Gujarat then> the points' table will be the same. Means > 25+10+5+5+5 = 50

3 If conditions are not conducive for even 5 overs per innings, then, they will play a Super Over to determine the winner of the relevant Eliminator or Qualifier match. If that happened --- The points for every member will be like this >>> Predicting the winning team > 25 , best batter --for correct prediction full 5 points, if not, then only 2 points . Same in the case of Bowler(wicket taker) MOTM , WILL BE DECIDED LATER on the merit of the batter/bowler from both sides, if the organizers decide, it will be easy for us.

Hint >>> Normally, every team prefers to send their best batsmen (2) to play super over , same thing applies to bowler too.