Punjab Kings (PBKS) will tackle the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) within the thirty first match of IPL 2025 on April 15 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur
Punjab Kings are coming into the sport having misplaced the final match towards Sunrisers Hyderabad, because the 2014 runners-up had no solutions to an assault from Abhishek Sharma, who scored a match-winning century
Kolkata Knight Riders, then again, clinched a simple win towards CSK and can look to maintain up the great work towards PBKS on Tuesday.
KKR Taking part in 11 vs Punjab Kings- IPL 2025, Match 31:
Openers: Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine
South African wicketkeeper batter Quinton de Kock will open the batting for Kolkata Knight Riders together with Sunil Narine. The left-hander can be itching to get a giant rating after failing to make a major contribution within the final match towards CSK whereas chasing a modest whole
Sunil Narine, who will accomplice Quinton de Kock on the prime of the order, helped KKR get their web run charge again on observe courtesy of quick-fire innings in a small run chase towards CSK and can look to copy the identical towards Punjab Kings
Center-order: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh
Ajinkya Rahane, the KKR captain, can be elated with the way in which the defending champions made a powerful comeback towards CSK and would hope to hold on the successful momentum within the upcoming match towards Punjab Kings, and would additionally prefer to contribute whereas batting at quantity three
Ajinkya Rahane will want good help from skilled gamers like Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku Singh, each of whom performed good innings in an in depth loss towards LSG on the Eden Gardens. The sport towards Punjab Kings will even present a chance for Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Andre Russell to attain some runs.
Bowlers: Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Spancer Jhonson, Varun Chakravarthy
KKR made a strong comeback towards CSK within the bowling division by proscribing the previous champions to a rating of lower than 110, which proved to be under par on a useful wicket at Chepauk. The bowling was led by the spin trio of Sunil Narine, Moeen Ali, and Varun Chakravarthy.
The efficiency of the spin bowlers would give Kolkata Knight Riders a number of confidence going ahead within the match, because the pitches are anticipated to help the spinners within the upcoming matches. Having mentioned that, spinners may not play a significant position towards the Punjab Kings as a result of nature of the wicket in Mullanpur.
KKR have vary of quick bowling at their disposal with the likes of Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora, each of whom have delivered impactful performances with the brand new ball within the first six overs for the group and can look to do the identical within the subsequent match towards the Punjab Kings
Harshit and Vaibhav shall be assisted by Andre Russell, who has a popularity for choosing wickets whereas bowling within the final 5 overs of the innings and has offered essential breakthroughs for KKR through the years, together with Spencer Johnson, who would possibly get an opportunity towards Punjab
