Dindigul Dragons vs Karaikudi Kaalai, Tamil Nadu Premier League 2019, Today Match Prediction 29 Jul 2019

dgd vs kk Match Prediction & Analysis

Dindigul Dragons team continues to breathe fire as their name suggests and are in red hot form at the moment. Skipper Ravichandran Ashwin is leading the team from the front with his all-round performance in all the matches. N Jagadeesan has raised his game in last two games and has scored back to back half-centuries. Sumant Jain and Hari Nishanth have played some crucial cameos to help their team to build partnerships in the middle. Ramalingam Rohit and Jagannathan Koushik bowled a brilliant opening spell to reduce the opposition to 27/5 inside the powerplay overs. Skipper Ashwin and Trilog Nath made their presence felt with 2 wickets each. M Silambarasan had an off-day last match after impressive performances in the first two matches. Dindigul Dragons team is firing on all cylinders with both their batting and bowling in good form. 

Karaikudi Kaalai team is currently struggling in their last two matches and they have just two points after their super over win in the first match. Their batting unit ended with scores of just 67 & 121 in the last two matches. Skipper Anirudha Srikanth failed to make an impact after his half-century in their opening match. No batsmen crossed the 30-run mark in their last two matches. Their bowling unit has leaked more than 170 runs in all the three matches played so far. Sunil Sam, Mohan Prasath, and R Rajkumar were amongst the wickets in the last match and took 6 wickets between them. Their bowling kept leaking runs at a high economy rate. Karaikudi Team is struggling to put a good performance with both bat and ball. They need to perform as a team before their chances of qualification vanishes. 

TEAMS PREVIEW

Dindigul Dragons Preview

Key Players:

R Ashwin – R Ashwin is having an excellent season with both bat and ball. He has scored 105 runs at a strike rate of 195 and coupled it with 5 wickets at an economy rate of just 4.5 RPO. R Ashwin will look to prove his mettle as an all-rounder this season.       

R Rohit – Rohit took 3 wickets last match after he did not take any wickets in the first two matches. He bowled a brilliant spell of 3-0-16-3 which dented the chase and was awarded Man of the Match award for the same.  

Recent Stats:

N Jagadeesan – 157 runs, Strike rate -139, Hs -87

M Silambarasan – 8 wickets, Economy – 7 RPO, BB - 4/13

Dindigul Dragons Predicted Playing XI:

Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Jagannathan Kaushik, M Mohammed, NS Chaturved, Hari Nishanth, Ramalingam Rohit, Mohan Abhinav, N Jagadeesan (wk), M Silambarasan, Trilog Nath, Sumant Jain

Dindigul Dragons Actual Playing XI:

Ravichandran Ashwin, M Silambarasan, Narayan Jagadeesan, Ramalingam Rohit, M Mohammed, Jagannathan Kaushik, H Trilok Nag, Sumant Jain, C Hari Nishanth, NS Chaturved, R Vivek

Karaikudi Kaalai Preview

Key Players:

V Aditya – Opener Aditya has made scores of just 1, 10 & 4 in the three matches he played. He needs to score runs before he gets dropped from the playing XI.

Sunil Sam – Sunil Sam has 6 wickets in the season so far with 2 wickets in every match. But, he is leaking runs at almost 9 RPO which is a big concern for the team. He needs to control the run flow with more disciplined bowling. 

Recent Stats

S Anirudha – 70 runs, Strike rate -152, Hs - 58

Sunil Sam – 6 wickets, Economy – 8.75 RPO, BB – 2/25

Karaikudi Kaalai Predicted Playing XI:

Yo Mahesh, Srikkanth Anirudha (c), Sunil Sam, R Kavin (wk), M Shajahan, S Swaminathan, Rajhamany Srinivasan, R Rajkumar, S Mohan Prasath, Maan Bafna, V Aditya

Karaikudi Kaalai Actual Playing XI:

Rajhamany Srinivasan, V Lakshman, Sunil Sam, Maan Bafna, Laxmesha Suryaprakash, R Rajkumar, M Shajahan, RD Ashwin Kumar, S Mohan Prasath, S Anirudha, Dinesh Karthik

Weather Conditions

Tirunelveli pitch is a good batting pitch and batsmen find scoring easier early in the match. The pitch tends to slow down as the match progresses. Teams batting first have set target above 160 runs in four out of five matches played so far. The weather forecast looks bright and clear on the match day.

Toss: WIN the toss, BOWL First

Teams batting first have won all the five matches played here so far. The highest score by the team batting second is 152 runs whereas batting first teams have scored over 160 runs four times in five matches so far.