Anchors may no longer be cool in T20s but when you have a couple of designated ones in KL Rahul and Shubman Gill going up against each other, the conditions better be relevant for the face-off. And Lucknow has the stage set for it. Saturday's afternoon game between the sides will be played on a used black-soil pitch, so those hoping to keep a tally of the sixes may want to look somewhere else.

Gujarat Titans wouldn't mind such conditions at this point in their campaign. They haven't been able to defend totals very well this season - losing two in two - and have been consistently beaten by teams