Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11: PBKS host KKR at Mullanpur. (PHOTO: Sportzpics for IPL)Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings host Ajinkya Rahane’s Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League 2025 Match No. 31 at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur (New Chandigarh) on Tuesday. PBKS are coming off an 8-wicket crushing loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium. After scoring 245/6, Punjab bowlers let SRH openers Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head run riot as the host chased down the second-highest total in the history of IPL.
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KKR are placed fifth in the points table with three wins and as many losses to get six points from six matches whereas PBKS, who played one less match than KRR, are sixth with equal points as KKR but have an inferior NRR.
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Punjab pacer Lockie Ferguson will be unavailable for the remainder of the IPL, confirmed PBKS bowling coach James Hopes. After his departure, Azmatullah Omarzai can come back into the XI. Glenn Maxwell will also need to step up the game otherwise Punjab can look at someone like Xavier Bartlett, a specialist bowler.
Kolkata look settled with their XI and the only change they can make is by replacing Moeen Ali with Spencer Johnson if they need an extra pacer.
Here are the predicted Playing XIs, Impact Subs and Full Squads of PBKS and KKR:
Punjab Kings PXI: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Kolkata Knight Riders PXI: Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ajinkya Rahane (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Spencer Johnson/Moeen Ali, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harpreet Brar, Azmatullah Omarzai, Josh Inglis, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Rovman Powell, Anrich Nortje, Mayank Markande, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya, Spencer Johnson.
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