Kings XI Punjab will host Gujarat Lions in Match 47 of the 2017 Indian Premier League [IPL] at the IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali in Sunday’s late fixture.
The Kings XI have a good chance of making the playoffs as they are just three points behind fourth-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad and also have two games in hand. They are in good form as well, having won their last two matches.
On the other hand, Gujarat are out of the reckoning and will be playing for pride as they attempt to at least end the season on a high.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, start time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: May 7, 2017 (Sunday)
Time: 18:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 14:30 GMT
Venue: IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
KXIP SQUAD: David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Murali Vijay, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Darren Sammy, T Natarajan, Varun Aaron, Rahul Tewatia, Rinku Singh, Ishant Sharma.
Punjab go into this game with a lot of confidence and with their bowling line-up doing extremely well in the last two matches, one expects them to play the same team here.
PREDICTED KXIP XI: Guptill, Amla, Marsh, Vohra, Maxwell (c), Saha (wk), Axar, Mohit, Aaron, Sandeep, Natarajan.
GL SQUAD: Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Smith, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Ishan Kishan, Pradeep Sangwan, Shadab Jakati, Jaydev Shah, Nathu Singh, Basil Thampi, Tejas Singh Baroka, Manpreet Gony, Munaf Patel, Chirag Suri, Shelly Shaurya, Shubham Agrawal, Pratham Singh, Aksh Deep Nath, Irfan Pathan, Ankit Soni.
Brendon McCullum will miss the rest of the season due to a hamstring injury which leaves Gujarat with just four foreign players in their squad.
Will this mean that Chirag Suri could become the first ever player from United Arab Emirates [UAE] to play in the IPL? There are chances of that happening, but the Lions might also decide to play with just three foreign players.
PREDICTED GL XI: Smith, Kishan, Raina (c), Finch, Karthik (wk), Jadeja, Faulkner, Pathan, Sangwan, Thampi, Soni.
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
KXIP: W W L W L
GL: L L L W L
MATCH PREDICTION
The form book points towards a Punjab win.