Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: The second match of the 16th IPL season will be played between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. The match will be hosted at Punjab cricket Association Stadium. Both teams had a relatively low performance in the previous IPL season and they are preparing for a comeback this season.
Match: IPL 2023 Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date: 1st April 2023
Time: 3:30 PM IST
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium.
Pitch Condition: The captain who wins the toss is most likely to choose bowling first. The pitch is the aptest for fast bowlers. The Pacers will have a huge advantage in this pitch. Batters will find it difficult to score side boundaries as the length is higher.
Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders – The Squad
Punjab Kings: Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Shahrukh Khan, Shikhar Dhawan (c), Shivam Singh, Liam Livingstone, Matt Short, Mohit Rathee, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Jitesh Sharma(wk),Prabhsimran Singh(wk), Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Elis, Rahul Chahar, Vidwath Kaverappa.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Mandeep Singh, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Anukul Roy, David Wiese, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Litton Das, Narayan Jagadeesan(wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz(wk), Harshit Rana, Kulwant Khejroliya, Lockie Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Suyash Sharma, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakeavarthy.
Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Team Performance in the Past Matches
The second match of the 16th IPL 2023 will be played between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. Both teams have some talented skilled players with them. Punjab Kings was not performing at their best in the last season, let’s hope they have a good comeback this year. The situation of Kolkata Knight Riders was also not very different.
Punjab Kings is led by Indian batter Shikar Dhawan. He was appointed as a new captain this season. Punjab Kings was placed in the sixth position in the previous IPL Season. Right now the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders is Nitish Rana. Both teams were performing poorly in the 2022 IPL Season. KKR is positioned at the seventh position and PBKS is positioned seventh.
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Wicket-keeper: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jitesh Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh
Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Shahrukh Khan.
All-Rounders: Andre Russel, Sam Curran, Sunil Narine.
Bowlers: Vaibhav Arora.
Captain: Andre Russel.
Vice-Captain: Sam Curran.
Wicket-keeper: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer
All-Rounders: Andre Russel, Sam Curran, Sunil Narine.
Bowlers: Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Shardul Thakur.
Captain: Andre Russel.
Vice-Captain: Sam Curran.
