1 week Ago
Punjab Kings are a better-assembled squad this time around, however, they need a few things to go right for them, which unfortunately didn't in the last game against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, who pulled off the second-highest chase of the in Hyderabad a couple of days ago. The Kings had their one of the spearheads Lockie Ferguson go down and might be ruled out of the season and that didn't help their defence of 245 and how they change around their combination will dictate, to a huge extent, how they fare against the Kolkata Knight Riders. Last year, this fixture produced the highest successful chase of the IPL with Punjab Kings chasing down 262.
However, Shreyas Iyer was on the other side but ended up winning the IPL as a captain. Now in the Punjab camp, Iyer will be keen to get his side back to the winning ways against a KKR outfit, coming off their best game of the tournament. The Knight Riders got the strip they have been pleading to have at their home venue in Kolkata, a bit slow and the ball gripping and turning.
and Varun Chakravarthy were sensational, however, Mullanpur will be a little faster and hence, might demand a change from the visitors in the XI. KKR have won one and lost one for six games in a row and now would want to get on a run to make a push for the playoffs. Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (vc), (c), Vaibhav Arora, , Nehal Wadhera, Rinku Singh, , Arshdeep Singh, Shashank Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), , Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vyshak Vijaykumar Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wk), (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Anrich Nortje/ , Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora.
