IPL 2025, PBKS vs KKR Live Cricket Rating: Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings have won the toss and have chosen to bat first against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Match 31 of the Indian Premier League 2025, held on the Mullanpur Stadium in Punjab.
Each teams have made just the one change each. For KKR, Moeen Ali is benched for Anrich Nortje while Lockie Ferguson gives approach to Xavier Bartlett within the PBKS side.
Punjab Kings suffered a heartbreaking defeat by 8 wickets within the last match played against Sunrisers Hyderabad despite posting a complete of 245 runs on the board. However, Kolkata Knight Riders crushed Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets of their last league match played on Friday (April 11).
The visitors would really like to take care of the winning run, whereas the house team will look to return back to winning ways today in front of home fans.
Playing XIs
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(wk), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Anrich Nortje, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy