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PBKS vs KKR, IPL 2025: Coin flip favours Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings vs Ajinkya Rahane’s Kolkata Knight Riders

Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns in Chandigarh on Tuesday as Shreyas Iyer faces his former side whom he led to the championship victory last season.

PBKS vs KKR Toss Update, IPL 2025: Will coin flip favour Shreyas Iyer today? (BCCI)PBKS vs KKR Toss Update, IPL 2025: Will coin flip favour Shreyas Iyer today? (BCCI)

Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns in Chandigarh on Tuesday as Shreyas Iyer faces his former side whom he led to the championship victory last season. With two teams locked in the middle of the standings with a mixed run of wins and losses, both teams will need to make it count tonight and the coin flip could be of much importance at the Punjab venue.

PBKS vs KKR Toss updates, IPL 2025 match at Mullanpur Stadium

TOSS: Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. 

Playing XIs

PBKS: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

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KKR: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Varun Chakaravarthy.

Captains’ during the toss:

Shreyas Iyer: We are going to bat first. Feel the wicket has been really well for the last couple of matches, the dew comes in but the outfield doesn’t skid through. Don’t remember the team changes, I will tell later. We need to take as many catches in the fielding and create some sort of brilliance.

Ajinkya Rahane: We were looking to bowl first on this wicket. For me, toss is something you cannot control. We have a batting that can chase the target. Just one change.  Nortje comes in for Moeen Ali. He has been working hard on his game and I am really looking forward to see him bowl tonight.

 

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Here’s how the Toss played its part last year for PBKS at the Mullanpur Stadium:

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PBKS at home in IPL 2024

Featuring in five games at the Mullanpur last stadium, Punjab Kings won four tosses. However, PBKS could not translate them into results as they dropped three of the four games, winning only one game while opting to bat second.

Tosses won at home: 4/5

Matches Won after Toss win at home: 1/4; Batting 1st win: 0/1; Batting 2nd win: 1/3  

KKR in away matches in IPL 2024

The Knights won the coin flip in only two of their five completed away games last season. However, KKR ended up winning four of those contest en route to their third championship last year.

Tosses won away from home: 2/5

Matches Won after Toss win away: 2/2; Batting 1st win: 1/1; Batting 2nd win: 1/1

Matches Won after Toss loss away: 2/3; Batting 1st: 2/3

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