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The second game of the opening day will be played between the defending champions Bengaluru Bulls and the three-time winners in the history of the league Patna Pirates. A raiding battle between Pardeep Narwal and Pawan Sehrawat to see who finishes high from the very beginning of the league.

The seventh edition of the very popular PKL is all set to begin on Saturday at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad where the home team Telugu Titans will take on U Mumba in the first game. It will be an interesting battle between the Siddharth Desai and his former skipper Fazel Atrachali.

Raider Siddharth Desai was last season’s biggest find of PKL, scoring a total of 218 raid points in 21 matches for U Mumba. But his injury prone nature meant that he missed a lot of matches. He is also the costliest buy of this season, as Telugu Titans spent a mammoth Rs.1.45 crore for the raider.

Captains will no longer be suspended for slow over-rates, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Thursday after the board and full member council meeting. Earlier, two instances of slow over-rates in the same calendar year warranted a suspension for captains of the team.