OPA vs OPU Dream11 Team Prediction: The Odisha Panthers are on fire in MGM Odisha Premier League as they have won all their five games so far. And today they take on Odisha Pumas who will have the daunting task of stopping the juggernaut of Panthers. The Pumas have won 3 of their 5 games so far and have looked good too. So lets look at the OPA vs OPU match prediction.
Fixture: Odisha Panthers vs Odisha Pumas; Odisha T20
When: 4 January, 07:30 PM IST
Venue: Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Live Stream Online: Watch Odisha Panthers vs Odisha Pumas; live cricket streaming on Fancode
OPA vs OPU Playing 11
OPA Team News:
Playing combination: K Barik will keep the wickets while S Somani and A Yadav will lead the batting department. C Biswal will be the all-rounder. B Mohanty will handle bowling responsibilities.
OPA Playing 11:
Krushna Barik, Sparsh Somani, Ankit Singh, Abhishek Yadav, Pradeep Pradhan, Binit Mohanty, Dinesh Srivastav, Alok Chandra Sahoo, Chandramani Biswal, Basant Mohanty, Jayanta Behera.
OPU Team News:
Playing combination: T Sahoo and S Patnaik will open the batting. A Singh, P Das and P Singh will bat in the middle order. A Nayak will be the finisher.
OPU Playing 11:
A Singh, A Sahoo, S Jana, Ranjit Paikaray , Abhishek Yadav , Pradeep Pradhan , Nisikanta Rout , Binit Mohanty , Basant Mohanty , Jayanta Behera , Shubham Nayak
In OPA vs OPU Dream 11 prediction, A Yadav has been effective for Panthers with the bat so far while A Singh has chipped in with crucial runs as well. The bowling revolves around A Sahoo. For Pumas, T Sahoo’s runs at the top of the order are crucial while P Rana has been the stand out bowler so far.
OPA vs OPU Dream11 Prediction:
Wicket-keepers: R Paikaray
Batsmen: A Singh, A Yadav, P Rana, S Patnaik
All-rounder: A Sahoo, P K Singh
Bowlers: P Pradhan, S Nayak, B Mohanty, T Sahoo
Captain and vice-captain:
A Sahoo is the leading wicket-taker for his team and has claimed 10 wickets in 5 games so far. In the last match he picked up 1 wicket for 15 runs and then chipped in with 25 important runs in 37 balls.
A Yadav has been the best batsman for Panthers so far and has made 165 runs in 4 innings at an average of 82.50 and has a strike-rate of 136.36.
T Sahoo batted incredibly well in the last game. He made 61 runs from 51 balls with 6 fours and 3 sixes.
P Singh made 28 runs from 20 balls in the last match with 3 fours and 1 six. He has been very consistent in this tournament so far and has made 132 runs in 5 innings at a strike-rate of 151.72.
As both teams are strong this will be a close contest. However Panthers are high in confidence as they haven’t lost any game so far. So in the OPA vs OPU Dream11 today match prediction, expect OPA to win the game.