Toss Rising Pune Supergiant chose to bowl v Gujarat Lions
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Ben Stokes returned to the Rising Pune Supergiant line-up after missing their last two matches © BCCI
Ben Stokes returned to the Rising Pune Supergiant line-up as they chose to bowl against Gujarat Lions at the MCA Stadium. Stokes, who missed Rising Pune’s last two games with a niggle, took the place of Lockie Ferguson despite the New Zealand quick’s match-winning spell against Royal Challengers Bangalore. They made one other change in their seam attack, with Shardul Thakur replacing Deepak Chahar.
Lions made two changes as well, with Dwayne Smith returning to the side in place of Andrew Tye, who returned to Australia with a dislocated shoulder, and Pradeep Sangwan replacing fellow left-arm seamer Irfan Pathan.
Rising Pune sit fourth on the IPL table with five wins from nine games, while Lions are sixth with three wins from nine.
Gujarat Lions 1 Ishan Kishan, 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Aaron Finch, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Dwayne Smith, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 James Faulkner, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Basil Thampi, 11 Ankit Soni.
Rising Pune Supergiant 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Rahul Tripathi, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 MS Dhoni (wk), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Manoj Tiwary, 7 Daniel Christian, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Shardul Thakur, 11 Imran Tahir.
Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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