Mumbai, ANI. Sunil Gavaskar told that the two new IPL teams Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants will face each other for the first time on Monday at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In this match, the command of Gujarat will be in the hands of Hardik Pandya, while the Lucknow team will be captained by KL Rahul. Both these new teams will try to make a great start in the IPL. On one hand, where KL Rahul will captain another team in IPL, Hardik Pandya will be on the field for the first time in IPL as captain.

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Before the match between these two teams, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, while talking on the Today Group, said that the opening pair of Lucknow Super Giants can prove to be very deadly. He said that captain KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock can open the innings for Lucknow and this combination of right and left-handed batting makes them a devastating opening pair. Gavaskar said that the best thing about Quinton de Kock is that he also has captaincy experience. He has been the captain of South Africa and knows all the formats of the game. He knows what team building is because we are talking about a different team. Now they will be very keen to contribute to the team building process.

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Gavaskar said that when KL Rahul was the captain of Punjab Kings, he looked very busy

Gavaskar said that when KL Rahul was the captain of Punjab Kings. He looked very busy as he was not getting the kind of playing XI he wanted. The new franchise Lucknow Super Giants will be a different challenge for KL. The kind of performance he did last season. And had he managed to take his team to the knockout stage, it would have been a big step in his career. If Rahul plays the same way for Lucknow, it will be very good for the team.