While St Lucia bounced back with a win in the run curtailed game against the reigning champions Barbados Tridents the other day, St Kitts are at the bottom of the points table having lost both their games so far.
Another defeat will put St Kitts in a seriously troublesome position with regard to their qualification to the playoffs. St Lucia, on the other hand, will try and consolidate their position and look to add another two points to their tally to get into top 2 in the table.
Here are fantasy cricket tips for game 7 of CPL 2020 –
Pitch Report
They are going to use a fresh strip for the second round of games at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy and because it’s a fresh surface, it might allow the stroke-players to hit the ball slightly more fluently as compared to the previous games.
Both St Lucia and St Kitts have got players, who are not necessarily good users of their feet, but they hit the ball clean and hard and if the surface allows them to play through the line of the ball, it might turn out to be an exhibition of stroke-play on Saturday morning.
Predicted XI of both teams
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
Chris Lynn, Evin Lewis, Ben Dunk, Nick Kelly, Dinesh Ramdin, Jahmar Hamiton, Rayad Emrit (C), Dominic Drakes, Ish Sodhi, Sheldon Cottrell and Jon-Russ Jaggesar
St Lucia Zouks
Rakheem Cornwall, Andre Fletcher, Mark Deyal, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Darren Sammy (C), Scott Kuggeleijn, Saad bin Zafar, Obed McCoy, Zahir Khan and Kesrick Williams
Top picks
St Lucia has got quite a few off spinners and that’s what Chris Lynn can thrive on. If the Aussie right-hander manages to survive the new ball, he might run riot in the middle phase given the kind of bowlers St Lucia has got to bowl in the post power-play period.
Najibullah Zadran has not really had a big score to his name so far in the tournament, but it seems to be round the corner because he has timed the ball really well during his brief stay at the crease in the last couple of games.
Another pick from the batsmen’s category will be the left-handed Kiwi Nick Kelly who seems to be a really organized player batting at no. 3 for St Kitts.
It will be a no-brainer to pick Mohammed Nabi as an all-rounder. The former Afghanistan skipper showed in the last game how useful he can be in both aspects of the game if he gets the pitch to his liking. He will be the trump-card for St Lucia again.
Scott Kuggeleijn and Obed McCoy might not be two very popular picks, but they will be intelligent picks for two reasons. First, they come at a low price, which allows you to pick other high budget players from the batsmen or the all-rounder’s category and secondly, because both these bowlers hit the pitch hard and they can bowl both with the new and the old ball.
Captaincy pick: Chris Lynn
Vice-captaincy pick: Rahkeem Corwall
Fantasy XI: Andre Fletcher, Najibullah Zadran, Chris Lynn (C), Ben Dunk, Nick Kelly, Mohammed Nabi, Rahkeem Cornwall (VC), Sohail Tanvir, Scott Kuggeleijn, Obed McCoy, Jon-Russ Jaggesar
