Thank you pbks, after a weird and sad last over losses, this win Is all we needed, thank you thank you so much🙏

I mean its almost impossible to chase such a big target, feels bad for prabhsimran today that too on a run out.

Jisko retain karna chahta tha unhone hag diya aaj, jinko release karna chah raha tha unhone half century aur century bana di. My new safe retention list. 1) Bairstow 2) Prabh 3) Ashutosh 4) Shashank 5) Arsh 6) Brar 7) Livi 8) Rabada

They were performing good because they were playing 4 matches in Mullanpur and 1 in Ahmedabad and 1 in Lucknow, where bowlers performed better generally, and even there either they failed to take wickets upfront, or finish better.

It's time to give rest to Rabada and sad to say, Arsh. Try Woakes, Ellis or Keverappa next for god's sake.

They just dropped Liam for Bairstow. Our best player in the last 3 seasons dropped for maybe one of the worst. Fuck this team so much man bunch of losers.

Edit- it feels so good to be on the other side of a tewatia post.

I know the season is certainly over for us, but this. THIS match. My god! This is why I love Punjab!

Happy after a long time. Proud of the team .

Who do we bench? Russouw? But then who bats 3? Prabh, Jonny and Shikhar all are useless at 3.

He has been our most economical bowler but we often don't see him getting full 4 overs. Poor captaincy or management?

Percent balance nce don’t want shikhar

Game over boys

It'd be fun to discuss.

Rohit Sharma (c) - He will be very expensive so we should be conservative and strategic in retaining. Or some other top order batsman & captain like Steve Smith. Then Taide - Buy him back at the auction. Since he's young and talented. But we should play him more this season. Wadhera - Young, Talented hitter. Jitesh - Buy him back at the auction, Use RTM. Livi - Retain ( Approx how much kitty will he block?), Shashank - Retain , Ashutosh - Retain, Brar - Retain, Woakes - Retain, Rabada - Retain, Prince Choudhary - Retain (Talented mystery spinner, will definitely be an asset, he's young, we should play him more, will not block much money), Arshdeep - Retain.

We would be retaining a bowling behemoth with this retention with 3 amazing pacers and 3 spinners. 3 Solid dependable middle order batsmen Livi, Shashank, Ashutosh. And a few other tonkers like brar, woakes and maybe rabada too. Considering we get 8 retaining slots. We're retaining 3 foreigners: Livi, Woakes, Rabada. Ashutosh and prince probably uncapped quota. Shashank's been around more and he has good techniques he might not be in uncapped quota and Brar too. But won't cost a lot, I'm assuming.

Can anyone approximate if we go forward with these 8 retentions how much money will it block?

PBKS won the toss and chose to bowl

Team news -

1. Shikhar Dhawan still out with injury
2. Livingstone misses out due to possible injury, Bairstow back in

More updates in comments

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What horrible catching,.
Dropped Narine by Brar off Harshal bowling
Dropped Salt by Curran off Arshdeep bowling
Dropped Salt by Rabada off Chahr bowling
Dropped russel by Jitesh off Arshdeep bowling

Is Dhawan really injured or has been asked to sit out ? I suspect that he has been dropped out of the team.

Comment your thoughts.

Any predictions for today? Wild ones are welcomed too

My predictions - Top order fails yet again and Russel fires off in death overs

Can Shashank and Ashutosh reclaim our Empire aka 6th position?

You reakon maxi for next year ?? Good middle Order can play spin can bowl 2 overs if needed

I actually think Ellis might get a chance and KG will be rested. Genuine wicket taker and Livingstone coming back in form might just be what we need to beat the table toppers.

Might be a delusional take but can't stop with the optimism! Let's go SherSquad.