Cricket Betting Tips and Match Predictions: Pondicherry Premier League 2025 - Match 22 - Yanam Royals vs Karaikal Kniights : 18th July

Here are the Fantasy Cricket Predictions and Betting Tips for the Pondicherry Premier League, Match 22 - Yanam Royals vs Karaikal Kniights, which will be played on the 18th of July at the Cricket Association Puducherry Siechem Ground, Puducherry.

Match Prediction - Yanam Royals v Karaikal Knights

Current Form Yanam Royals:

Yanam Royals are currently placed at the 2nd position on points table with 5 wins and 2 losses to their credit.

The top run scorer for Yanam Royals in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Vedant Bhardwaj with 399 runs to his name.

The top wicket taker for Yanam Royals in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is K Vignesh with 12 scalps under his belt.

Yanam Royals have won their previous match against Villianur Mohit Kings by a small margin of 1 run.

Yanam Royals batted first and they posted a huge total of 171 for 6 in 20 overs. Vedant Bhardwaj once again got his team to a great start. He smashed 58 runs in just 42 balls, hitting 3 fours and 5 sixes. S Parameeswaran also made a wonderful contribution of 47 runs in just 36 balls. On the back of such brilliant batting performances, Yanam Royals got to a competitive total of 171 in their innings.

During the chase, Villianur Mohit Kings lost Mohit Kale and Akash Pougajendy early on in the innings. After their dismissals, Bhanu Anand and Aman Hakim Khan revived the innings by scoring 37 and 23 runs respectively. A real shift in the match was triggered by Prithvi Rajan Khanna as he smashed 53 quick runs to bring Villianur Mohit Kings back on top. However, he got out at a wrong time and the lower order batters couldn't keep their nerves until the end as Villianur Mohit Kings fell short by 1 run in the end.

Current Form Karaikal Kniights:

Karaikal Kniights are currently placed at the 5th position on points table with 2 wins and 4 losses to their credit.

The top run scorer for Karaikal Kniights in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Mohammed Aqib Jawad with 214 runs to his name.

The top wicket taker for Karaikal Kniights in the Pondicherry Premier League 2025 is Vijai Raja with 10 scalps under his belt.

Karaikal Kniights have lost their previous match against Ruby White Town Legends by a small margin of 7 runs.

Ruby White Town Legends batted first and they posted a total of 178 for 3 in 20 overs. The start wasn't encouraging as they lost 2 early wickets. After that phase, Akash Anand Kargave and Anand Bais played really well and made 57 and 66 runs respectively to lift the team's spirits. A real match changing knock was played by Nadeem Khan, who smashed 39 runs off just 15 balls to help Ruby White Town Legends get to a competitive total of 178 in their innings.

During the chase, Karaikal Kniights started off well with opener Mohammed Aqib Jawad scoring 50 runs in 35 balls, hitting 4 fours and 2 sixes. However, he kept losing partners in regular succession and hence, Karaikal Kniights could never go all out attack. Hitesh Patel then smashed 32 runs off 18 balls but failed to take Karaikal Kniights over the line as they eventually fell short by 7 runs.

Let’s have a look at the squads:

Karaikal Knights

Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Md Waseef Mukadam, Mohammed Aqib Jawad, Aman Khan, Bhupender Chauhan, Hitesh Patel, Nitesh Sedai, S Santhosh Kumaran, Gautam Shastry, Abin Matthew, Aman Ahuja, Ankit Sharma, Arshil Rajendra, Pratham Nagori, Rahul R, Vijai Raja

Yanam Royals

Premraj Rajavelu, Thanneru Vamsi Krishna, Vedant Bhardwaj, Aditya Garhwal, Aditya Pandey, Akash Kumar, Hariharan Subramanyan, Manikandan J, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Parth Vaghani, Praveen Kumar S, Pravin R, Gaurav Yadav, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Pradeep Jakhar, Pranay Singh

Batting Stats T20

Cricket Betting Tips and Match Predictions* - PrePlay

Who will win the toss? – Karaikal Kniights

Who will win?- Yanam Royals

Top Batter (Runs Scored) - Aditya Garhwal (Yanam Royals), Rohit Chouhan (Karaikal Kniights)

Top Bowler (Wickets taken) - K Vignesh (Yanam Royals), Nitesh Sedai (Karaikal Kniights)

Most Sixes – Aditya Garhwal (Yanam Royals), Rohit Chouhan (Karaikal Kniights)

Player of the Match- Aditya Garhwal (Yanam Royals)

Team Scores Batting first – Yanam Royals 180+, Karaikal Kniights 170+

Match Handicap: Yanam Royals

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*NB these predictions may be changed nearer the start of the match once the final starting teams have been announced and we will be running ‘In-Play’ features, so stay tuned.

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