The 25th match of the ninth edition of Indian Premier League - IPL 2016 - will be played between Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) and his former Chennai Super Kings colleague Suresh Raina's Gujarat Lions (GL) on Friday. Debutants RPS' home ground - Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune will host the high profile T20 clash.

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The new franchise Gujarat Lions have had an impressive start to the season with five wins out of six matches. GL regained the top position at IPL 2016 points table after beating Delhi Daredevils by one run in a thrilling encounter on Wednesday. Daredevils' Chris Morris almost carried his side to a victory with a fierce knock of 82 runs off just 32 balls.

"Probably, this was my best innings in T20 cricket. I could have hit one straight first ball and looked like an absolute idiot. It is just one of those days to me when the ball came on to the middle right away. Today was my day and fortunately it worked for me. It is upsetting we lost though," Morris said.

Rising Pune Supergiants, on the other hand, have just won two out of six games. The MS Dhoni led Pune franchise registered a comprehensive win in their last game against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

In an another setback to RPS, inform batsman Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of IPL 2016 due to a finger injury. RPS has already lost Kevin Peterson due to injury. Australian batsman Usman Khwaja replaced him in the squad.

The GL vs. RPS T20 will start at 8 p.m. local time / 2:30 p.m. GMT/ 10:30 a.m. ET on April 29, 2016. Online live streaming of the match available here (Star Sports in India), here (Cricket Gateway), here (Willow TV in U.S.), here (Skysports in U.K.), here (ESPN in U.S.), here (Hotstar) and here (YuppTV).  Live scores and commentaries will be available here (ESPN Cricinfo) and here (Cricbuzz). Viewers can also catch match videos at IPL T20 2016' official website here. 

The Line Ups

RPS: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Usman Khwaja, Kevin Pietersen, Faf du Plessis, Ajinkya Rahane, Mitchell Marsh, Peter Handscomb, R Ashwin, Irfan Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Jaskaran Singh, Steven Smith, Ankit Sharma, Ankush Bains, Ashok Dinda, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, M Ashwin, Rajat Bhatia, RP Singh, Scott Boland, Adam Zampa, Thisara Perera

Gujarat Lions: Suresh Raina, Aaron Finch, Brendon McCullum, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Dinesh Karthik, Dwayne Bravo, Akshdeep Nath, Shadab Jakati, Paras Dogra, Eklavya Dwivedi, Jaydev Shah, Dale Steyn, Andrew Tye, Dwayne Smith, Umang Sharma, Amit Mishra, Ishan Kishan, Shivil Kaushik, Praveen Kumar, Pravin Tambe, Sarabjit Ladda, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pradeep Sangwan

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