My Playing XI for Gujarat Lions and Reasons for this Team selection:-

My Playing XI for Gujarat Lions and Reasons for selecting this team:-

Opening Batsmen:-

1. Brendon McCullum,

2. Jason Roy,

    

Middle Order:-

1. Suresh Raina,(cap)

2. Ishan  Kishan,

3. Dinesh Karthick,(wk)

Finisher:-

1.  Dwayne Smith,

   Till Bravo come from injury

   After that 6.Dwayne Bravo

2. James Faulker,

Bowlers:-

1. Pradeep Sangwan till Bravo returns/Praveen Kumar,

2. Dhawal Kulkarni,

3. Shadab Jakati,

4. Shivil Kaushik.

Reasons For selection of this team

I personally feel  McCullum must play the waiting game because Roy is quite weak against spin, if he works well and plays well in matches, McCullum can play his natural game. There is no dout that this team has a perfect middle order. I feel till Bravo returns they need Faulker for this hard hitting and after he returns Smith must not play  because  I feel Faulker is perfect for no.6  0r no.7 because Smith sometimes takes times to settle in. In Bowling they will miss Jadeja and also his hard hitting which is hard to compensate.

 

X-Factor:-

This year I feel Suresh Raina will be the X-Factor and he must take responsibility to play exceedingly well more than what he did in CSK.