Due to a batting order that has potential and a firing bowling attack, suddenly, Cape Cobras looks like the team to beat in the 2019 CSA T20 Challenge, with 5 wins in their 8 games and now they are sitting comfortably at the top of the points table. A better confidence boost for them was their last win in the tournament, which came against the mighty Titans.
They now play host to Lions, a team which has bee decent this season, but 3 wins in 8 games means their chances of finishing in the top 4 are very high. However, they’re coming off a very demeaning loss to Warriors in their last game, where 140+ was chased down by the 15th over itself. Keep reading for our complete PlayerzPot (Use Code “READ1234”) fantasy preview of the Cobras vs Lions game…
Match info
- Tournament: CSA T20 Challenge 2019.
- Date: 26th April 2019, 9:30pm IST
- Venue: Newlands, Cape Town
- Capacity: 25,000+
- Series status: CSA T20 Challenge 2019 Round Robin Stage.
Stats
- Bjorn Fortuin (Lions) is the leading wicket-taker of the tournament – 10 in 6 games.
- Vernon Philander (Cobras) is right behind him with 10 wickets in 7 games.
- Janneman Malan (Cobras) has 205 runs in 7 games this season.
- Ryan Rickelton is Lions’ top scorer so far – 143 runs in 6 games.
Cobras
While Philander has 10 wickets so far, Tladi Bokako and captain Rory Kleinveldt are not very far behind with 8 wickets each this season, so I wouldn’t mind packing my team with Cape Cobras bowler. What’s better is that Philander and Kleinveldt often come handy with the bat as well. Picking the Cobras batsmen will be slightly trickier.
If you want to pick on the basis of form, there’s Janneman Malan and David Bedingham, the former having a century in the 2019 CSA T20 and the latter himself having notched up 185 runs this tournament so far. I’ll stick to them but what that means is facing the risk of dropping someone as experienced as Hashim Amla. We know he has a big performance around the corner but 82 runs in 7 innings is pathetic!
Lions
Lions will now be without their lead bowler Beuran Hendricks, who flew in to India to play for Mumbai Indians as a replacement for Alzarri Joseph. After missing a game against Warriors due to injury, all-rounder Wiaan Mulder is now set to return and you can even pick him as your vice-captain for this encounter.
While all eyes have been on Fortuin this 2019 CSA T20, I’d suggest a high-value pick in Aaron Phangiso, who brings a lot of experience to the fore and he has done pretty well with 7 wickets this tournament. It’s a tough battle for the wicket-keeper spot but I’m going to go in with Ryan Rickelton as he’s due a big score now.
COB vs LIO Betting
CSA T20 betting
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— Read Scoops (@ReadScoops) April 25, 2019
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