PBKS vs KKR Match Prediction: The Punjab Kings will want to get back on track on Tuesday after failing to defend their high score because of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma’s spectacular innings. On Tuesday, they will play the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), the reigning champions. Mullanpur will host the game starting at 7:30 p.m. With three victories and two defeats in five games, the squad captained by Shreyas Iyer is now in sixth place. With three victories and an equal number of losses in six games, Kolkata is now in fifth place.
Punjab was unable to defend the 245-run total
In the most recent match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings were unable to defend their score because of Abhishek’s spectacular innings of 141 runs in 55 balls. It is quite uncommon for a team to lose even after posting a huge 245-run total. When he saw his bowlers’ predicament in front of Abhishek, captain Shreyas Iyer, who hit 82 runs off 36 balls during the Punjab Kings innings, could only smile. No score is safe in Hyderabad, where this match was played.
There have been two games at Mullanpur thus far
Punjab’s next game will now take place at home, where the wicket is thought to be good for batting. The team batting first has scored more than 200 runs in two of the games played here thus far. In this case, Punjab’s team management will now need to choose the playing conditions they wish to use. There’s little doubt that the Punjab Kings bowlers’ confidence was damaged. Given that both of its spinners, Yuzvendra Chahal and Glenn Maxwell, gave up 96 runs in seven overs in the previous game, their spirits must have been particularly damaged.
With these batsmen from Kolkata, caution is required
Because of this, the Punjab team will undoubtedly be confused about the field. Given that Kolkata has aggressive batters like Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, and Venkatesh Iyer on their team, Punjab’s bowlers cannot be guaranteed to defend a 220-run total if they produce a flat ground for this match. The economy rate of his bowling unit is one statistic that Ricky Ponting, the head coach of Punjab, would prefer not to examine. Not a single one of his bowlers has scored less than nine runs per over. In five games, the typically dependable Chahal has taken just two wickets while giving up 11.13 runs per over.
PBKS vs KKR: The probable playing 11
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty.
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