Match Preview: Surrey Jaguars vs Vancouver Knights - GT20 League Play-off 1
The third edition of Global T20 Canada is down to the play-off after the completion of the league matches. Out of six teams, the top four made it into the play offs.
Top two performers of the league stage, Surrey Jaguars and Vancouver Knights will be locking horns for a place in the final of the third edition of the tournament. After finishing top two in the league, these teams will have one more chance to make it to the final even after losing this match.
Montreal Tigers and Brampton Wolves finished 3rd and 4th respectively and they will take on each other in the eliminator 1. The winner of this match will play against the loser of match between Surrey Jaguars vs Vancouver Knights.
Match Preview
Out of seven matches played, Surrey Jaguars have lost just one of them in this edition. It was against the Montreal Tigers in their first match. Since then, the Jaguars haven't looked back. Two of their matches were washed out due to rain.
On the other hand, Vancouver Knights has lost two of their seven matches this season. They lost to Toronto Nationals and Montreal Tigers. The group match between Surrey Jaguars and Vancouver Knights was abandoned due to hevay rain.
Surrey's Last 5 Matches: W W Ab W W
Vancouver's Last 5 Matches: W W Ab W L
Live Stream
Star Sports 2 will broadcast the match between Surrey Jaguars vs Vancouver Knights.
Star Sports will broadcast all the matches of Global T20 in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Similarly, FanCode is the digital partner of the league in India.
Free Sports and CBC will be boradcasting the live stream of Global T20 League around the world.
Fox Sports will telecast the matches in Australia whereas, fans in Pakistan can enjoy all the matches of the league in ASports.
TSports will telecast in Bangladesh.
Players to Watch
Sandeep Lamichhane (SJ): The Nepalese leg spinner will be a headache for the Vancouver Knights' batters. Lamichhane has picked up 10 wickets so far in the tournament with economy of just below 6. In the last match of the league stage, he finished with bowling figure of 3-6 from his 4 overs.
Mohammad Rizwan (VK): The star Pakistani batter Mohammad Rizwan will be the player to watch wherever he plays. He lately joins the squad and has played just 3 matches. In his three matches, he has already made two half centuries and is currently the second highest run scorer for his team.
Teams
Surrey Jaguars: Alex Hales, Iftikhar Ahmed, Jason Behrendorff, Litton Kumar Das, Karim Janat, Mohammad Haris, Sheel Patel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Jatinder Singh, Ayaan Khan, Bernard Scholtz, Pargat Singh, Dilon Heyliger, Ammar Khalid, Sunny Matharu, Kairav Sharma.
Vancouver Knights: Mohammad Rizwan, Rassie van der Dussen, Naveen-ul-Haq, Reeza Hendricks, Corbin Bosch, Najibullah Zadran, Junaid Siddiqui, Vriitya Aravind, Karthik Meiyappan, Ruben Trumpelmann, Ravinderpal Singh, Harsh Thaker, Rayyan Pathan, Muhammad Kamal, Nawab Singh, Kanwar Tathgur.