Punjab Kings (PBKS) stand-in captain Sam Curran won the all-important toss and elected to field in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Eden Gardens on (April 26). PBKS made one change with Jonny Bairstow replacing Liam Livingstone. For KKR, Dushmantha Chameera was handed his maiden cap for the franchise and he replaced Mitchell Starc.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Dushmantha Chameera, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana
Punjab Kings Playing XI: Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran(c), Rilee Rossouw, Jitesh Sharma(w), Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have participated in seven games this season, securing victories in five and suffering two defeats. Currently, they hold the second position on the points table. Their most recent match saw a narrow victory over Faf Du Plessis’ Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), where they triumphed by just one run. Meanwhile, Punjab Kings (PBKS) are in ninth place, having garnered four points from eight games, winning only two. Their latest match resulted in a loss to Shubman Gill's Gujarat Titans (GT) by three wickets.
In the historical matchups between KKR and PBKS, they have faced each other 32 times in IPL games. Out of these encounters, KKR has won 21 times, while PBKS has claimed victory in 11 matches. The highest score PBKS has achieved against KKR is 214, whereas KKR’s top score against PBKS stands at 245.
Squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw.
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