The Punjab Kings (PBKS) will take the field against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the 31st match of IPL 2025 April 15 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur
The Kings of Punjab arrive in the match after losing their last match against SRH, gracked with another round in life of Abhishek Sharma, who marked his first IPL Century
KKR turned home without sweating against CSK and will seek to record another victory against PBKS on Tuesday.
Punjab Kings playing 11 against KKR-IPL 2025, match 31:
Oukers: Prabhsimran Singh (WK) and Priyansh Arya
Prabhsimran Singh will open the pbk sleeves with Priyansh Arya. Prabhsimran, which has been part of the configuration of Punjab Kings for some time now, has completed his partner and young Priyansh Arya Bien, who was the team’s out of competition with his aggressive approach in the PowerPlay.
Priyansh started the tournament with a quick round against GT and followed it with its first Century IPL against the old CSK champions
The two openers will seek to continue the good job they have shown in the last games and would like to provide a solid start for the kings of Punjab against KKR
It will be interesting to see if the openers are able to continue the attacking approach with which they have played in the tournament so far.
Medium and versatile drummers: Shreyas Iyer (C), Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shegde, Marco Jansen
Punjab Kings has a strong and fit average order including Shreyas Iyer, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera and Shashank Singh. That said, pbks would like the experienced Australian versatralian Glenn Maxwell to come back among the races to win a kind of confidence
On the other hand, Maxwell’s compatriot, Marcus Stoinis, found his mojo in the last match against SRH and faced Mohammed Shami in the last to provide a good strong finish to the sleeves
The team led by Shreyas Iyer would like to reproduce the performance of the shot they posted against SRH in an important match against the reigning champions KKR
Quicks: Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal
The Kings of Punjab hope for a better spectacle of the quisons that the way they played against SRH in the last match, where Arshdeep and Co could not defend a total of 245 points gracked with certain intelligent and aggressive strikers of Abhishek Sharma.
The quisors could not restrict RR in their first match in Mullanpur while they conceded 205 points while bowling first and lost the match with a decent margin, which wreaked havoc on their net execution rate.
One of the biggest concerns for PBKS would be the form of their two experienced Indian quests, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal, who have not played to date according to expectations.
The Punjab was also sweating on the availability of Lockie Ferguson, who was injured in the bowling alley in the last match against SRH and should be replaced by Yash Thakur
