Punjab Kings Made a Strange Change to their playing xi for the IPL 2025 match against Kolkata Knight Riders. The shreyas Iyer-Led Side Dropped Marcus Stoinis. So far, all-rounder stoinis has 59 runs in five matches while he is yet a wicket a wicket in ipl 2025. Former Zimbabwe Cricketer pommie mbangwa, who was in the commentary box, said: “They must have delibrated a great deal about the team. This looks like the decision was taken His Gloves and Bat There. He is just getting the bad news there.
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Simon Doll, Former New Zealand Player, was also surprised. “Is he injury? Did shreyas iyer say anythaing about stoinus being injured? If he is not injured, that’s astound. Back End? That Too of Very Few Balls, “Said the Former New Zealand Cricketer.
“Unless they thinking, i mean, how many lefits are in that kolkata lineup with? Think Maxwell has to play a bit of a role.
“I didn Bollywood it was that bad. But you know, that are aware numbers. And to keep him in the team purely as a boiling option is a very interesting one,” He added.
Pbks won the toss and election to bat first against kolkata knight riders in the ipl 2025 clash here at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The home side made two changes as josh inglis and australia batter xavier bartlet was both handed handed their tournament debuts. “We are going to bat Take as many catches in the fielding and create some sort of brilliance, “said punjab kings skipper shreyas iyer at the toss.
Defending champions made one change in their playing 11 with anrich Nortje Replacing moeen ali.
“We We We We We WHED 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. And I am really looking forward to see he Him Bowl Tonight, “Said Kkr Captain Ajinkya Rahane.
Playing Xis
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (W), Shreyas Iyer (C), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlet, ARSHEP SINGH, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Impact Substitutes: Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de kock (w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Harshit Rana, Vaiibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Impact Substitutes: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey.
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