Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Toss update: Today Ajinkya Rahane and Shreyas Iyer will face to face. The match will be played between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. This 31st match of IPL 2025 will be played at the new PCA Cricket Stadium. In this match, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl. After the last two defeats, Punjab Kings have a chance to return to this tournament today. Kolkata Knight Riders would like to win their second consecutive win.
Fast bowler Locky Ferguson was injured in the last match, due to which he had to withdraw from this tournament. Today Kolkata Knight Riders have dropped Moin Ali from the team. In his place, Enrique Nortje has been included in the team. Xavier Bartlett has been included in Punjab Kings’s playing 11 today.
Shreyas Iyer’s team has suffered defeat in both the previous matches. Punjab has played 5 matches so far, out of which it has won 3 matches and lost two matches. The Kolkata Knight Riders team has been performing ups and downs in this tournament. In the last matches, KKR defeated Chennai by a huge margin. The Punjab Kings team currently ranks sixth in the points table, while Kolkata is currently at the fifth position in the competition with 6 points.
In today’s matches, fans will be eyeing Shreyas Iyer. Currently, Shreyas is in vigorous form, while the team’s young opener Priyansh Arya has scored a century for the team. Meanwhile, as far as Kolkata’s batting is concerned, Sunil Naren and team captain Ajinkya Rahane are in strong form. In bowling, Chahal and Arshdeep have caught the attention of the audience for Punjab, while Varun Chakraborty and Sunil Naren of Kolkata have shown the way out to many big batsmen.
Punjab Kings playing 11:
Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Nehal Vadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Josh English, Shashank Singh, Marco Johnson, Xavier Bartlet, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ playing XI:
Quinton de Quak (wicketkeeper), Sunil Naren, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Enrique Nortje, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarti
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