Players to watch out for

Sandeep Sharma has taken a total of 11 wickets in his last 7 T20 matches and is wicketless in only one of these 

Aniruddha Joshi has piled up 238 runs while picking up 2 wickets in his last 5 T20 matches

Mandeep Singh has batted twice against Karnataka and in these 2 matches he has scored a total of 87 runs at a SR of 138

Devdutt Padikkal had a brilliant IPL season (473 runs in 15 matches) and will look to score big in SMAT as well

Prasidh Krishna has taken 8 wickets in his last 4 SMAT matches including a 3-fer in the most recent match