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 Preview : India Vs South Africa Series. Image Credit : 12TH man After a long 2 month IPL season it's now time for international cricket in India with team India playing a 5 match T20 series with South Africa which is going to start from 9th of June at Arun Jaitley Stadium Delhi. South Africa will be playing a T20i match Vs India after 3 years when they toured India in 2019. That series was drawn 1-1. This series will be a good preparation for both Team for the upcoming t20 world cup later this year in Australia. South Africa have selected their best team but india have rested their few main players and have given chances to some new young faces who have done well recently in the IPL. Youngsters including Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan. Veterans Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Kuldeep Yadav are the players returning to team India after a tremendous IPL season.  This is going to be a five match series which is going to play at 5 different grounds. Delhi, Cuttack, Vizag,...

 Lucknow Super Giants is the news team in the IPL, it was bought by rpsg Rajiv Goenka Group for a whopping 7000cr. They had option to choose Any of the Lucknow or Ahmadabad based franchise, they chosed Lucknow as their company work has been based in Uttar Pradesh. They had picked Kl Rahul, Marcus Stoinis, young Indian capped leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi in the draft pick which the both Team had to pick before the Mega Auction, They announced Kl Rahul as their Captain as expected, Kl Rahul has not played much cricket since South Africa tour in January, he last played against West Indies On 12th February in an odi match and after that he was out of next home fixtures because of an injury.  Image Credit: LSG Lucknow Super Giants coaching staff consist of Gautam Gambhir as a mentor and some other coaches. They had bought many good players in the auction, they have picked team consisting of many all rounders, firstly they Already had Marcus Stoinis and then auction they had picked Jaso...

Gujarat  Titans is the new team of IPL, it was bought by the CVC capital for more than 5000cr, they had drafted Hardik Pandya, Shubhman Gill and Rashid Khan before the Mega Auction, they had picked really good draft picks, After that they announced Hardik Pandya as their new Captain, He will be returning to international cricket after nearly 5 months, the last match that he played was against Namibia in T20 world cup that was played in Dubai where India failed to qualify for knock out, since then he is working on his fitness, now he is fully fit and have passed yo-yo test with flying colors, he is also bowling with speed of 135km/hr speed which is good sign for both the Gujarat Titans and the Indian Cricket Team.  Image Credit : GT They picked really good players in the auction, they had picked Mohammad Shami, Lockie Ferguson young Indian uncapped player Abhinav Sardarangani who is a really good talent, they also picked Jason Roy but because of the bio bubble fatigue he pulled...

 Sunrisers Hyderabad have one the tournament once in 2016 In captaincy of David Warner, where they won against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a see saw battle in final in Bangalore,  it was a nail biting match where Hyderabad won in last over. They had also reached finals in 2018 where they lost against Chennai Super Kings in Mumbai where Kane Williamson was the captain of the team. Image Credit : SRH They didn't have good last season, they finished bottom of table and were slap in the news for controversies, they removed David Warner as captain and also removed him from the playing X1, it was a shocking descion, the captain which led them to win their only Championship in 2016 was removed from the captaincy.  Kane Williamson led Sunrisers Hyderabad will look to go in the playoffs, they had retained Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad and Umran Mallik before the Mega Auction.  They had average Auction, they didn't bid for Any of the marquee players and that was really shock...

It Can be easily said that Punjab Kings is the one of the least successful team in the history of IPL, they have been able to reach final once in 2014 where they had lost to Kolkata Knight Riders where Wriddhiman Saha had scored century and Kolkata Chased 200 in finals, that year they were the closest to win the trophy but after that they have not been able to even qualify for playoffs. They have changed a lot of Captain since then and all of the have been unable to help them to reach playoffs. Murali Vijay, David Miller, Glenn Maxwell, Ravichanadran Ashwin, Kl Rahul and Mayank Agarwal are names of captain which led Punjab Kings or Kings X1 Punjab since 2014. Image Credit : BCCI Their biggest problem is that they don't give consistent run to a player, they keep on changing players if they don't perform for few matches, players don't feel secure about their place in team, they always had fear of getting out of X1 and because of this reason they were not able to perform consi...

Delhi Capitals has reached final just once in year 2020 where they had lost to Mumbai Indians in Dubai, yes they have been able to to reach playoffs  in last 3 previous seasons but still they haven't won an IPL trophy yet and have been really disappointed for their fans, they used to finish bottom 2 before the 2019 season.  When Shreyas Iyer took as a Captain of Delhi Capitals the team started to winning the matches and were reaching playoffs but due to injury he got ruled out of previous season and Risabh Pant was made Captain and when he returned in 2nd leg he was made Captain again and hence he left Delhi Capitals.  Image Credit : Hindustan Times They had retained Risabh Pant, Akshar Patel, Anrich Nortje and Prithvi Shaw before the Auction, they had tried to get most of their player back in the auction table but they were unable to do so, but still their team looks so good on paper, they have got David Warner, Mustafizur Rahman, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell ...