Both these teams scored their first victories in only their third games of the season. While Punjab earned their first points through a perfectly-executed chase against Bangalore Royal Challengers, Rajasthan held their nerve to force a tie against Kolkata Knight Riders and then clinched the Super Over.

Both these teams would be looking to build some momentum by winning today’s game. Punjab’s batting is looking quite good and I expect another strong batting performance from them. Yuvraj is due for an explosive innings now, if he fires today Rajasthan would be in some trouble. Rajasthan’s batting on the other hand with the exception of Yusuf Pathan has failed to impress much. Team Jaipur will need to pull up their socks, they would be expecting a bigger contribution from Graeme Smith who has had a quite tournament so far.

Teams (probable)

Punjab: 1 Ravi Bopara, 2 Karan Goel, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Wilkin Mota, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 VRV Singh, 10 Ranadeb Bose, 11 Yusuf Abdulla.

Rajasthan: 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Paul Valthaty, 3 Rob Quiney, 4 Yusuf Pathan, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 7 Abhishek Raut, 8 Shane Warne (capt), 9 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 10 Munaf Patel, 11 Kamran Khan. 

Timings

Start time : 16:45 local, 14:45 GMT, 20:15 IST

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