PBKS vs KKR Match Prediction: Punjab Kings which failed to defend its big score due to the explosive innings of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma, will try to return to the winning track on Tuesday. They will face defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Tuesday. The match will be played in Mullanpur from 7.30 pm. The team led by Shreyas Iyer is at the sixth position with three wins and two losses in five matches. At the same time, Kolkata is at the fifth position with three wins and as many losses in six matches.
Punjab failed to defend the score of 245 runs
It is very rare to see that a team has to face defeat despite scoring a big score of 245 runs, but in the last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings were unable to defend their score due to Abhishek’s explosive innings of 141 runs played in 55 balls. Captain Shreyas Iyer, who scored 82 runs off 36 balls in the innings of Punjab Kings, had no option but to smile seeing the plight of his bowlers in front of Abhishek. This match was played in Hyderabad where no score is considered safe.
Two matches played so far in Mullanpur
Punjab will now play its next match on its home ground where the wicket is considered favorable for batting. Two matches have been played here so far in which the team batting first scored more than 200 runs. In such a situation, the team management of Punjab will now have to decide what kind of conditions they want to play in. The confidence of the bowlers of Punjab Kings must have definitely been shaken. Especially the morale of its two spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Glenn Maxwell must have been affected because both of them conceded 96 runs in seven overs in the last match.
Will have to be careful with these Kolkata batsmen
In view of this, the Punjab team will definitely be in a state of confusion about the pitch. If Punjab prepares a flat wicket for this match, then there is no guarantee that their bowlers will be able to defend a score of 220 runs as Kolkata have aggressive batsmen like Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh and Venkatesh Iyer in their team. One stat that Punjab head coach Ricky Ponting would not want to look at is the economy rate of his bowling unit. None of his bowlers have gone below nine runs per over. The usually reliable Chahal has conceded 11.13 runs per over in five matches and has taken only two wickets.
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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