PBKS vs KKR Dream11 Prediction, IPL Fantasy Cricket Tips, Playing XI, Pitch Report & Injury Updates For Match 2 of IPL 2023
Kolkata Knight Riders have won four out of seven games against the Punjab Kings at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali.
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Punjab Kings (PBKS) will take on the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the second game of the IPL 2023 on Saturday (April 1) at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Shikhar Dhawan has been appointed the new captain of the Kings. He is the 14th captain of the team since the 2008 edition. Before the mini-auction last year, the Kings released a total of nine cricketers, including former skipper Mayank Agarwal, Odean Smith, and Sandeep Sharma. At the auction, they bought a total of six players. The Kings shelled out INR 18.5 crores to have Sam Curran in the squad, and he became the most expensive player in the auction history. Jonny Bairstow, who scored over 250 runs for the franchise last season, will miss this year because the ECB have not issued a NOC to him. Matthew Short, the second-highest run-scorer in BBL 2022-23, has been roped in place of Bairstow.
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The Knight Riders finished in seventh place last season with six wins from 14 games. Skipper Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out for the first few games this season, and Nitish Rana has been named the captain for the time being. They decided to retain just 14 players before the mini-auction and released 15 players. They traded Shardul Thakur from Delhi Capitals, Lockie Ferguson, and Rahmanullah Gurbaz from the Gujarat Titans. They made some exciting moves at the auction table as they bought David Wiese, Shakib Al Hasan, and Litton Das for their base price. They also bought N Jagadeesan for INR 90 lakh against his base price of INR 50 lakh.
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Match Information
Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Match 2
Indian Premier League, 1 Apr 2023, Sat, 3:30 PM IST, Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Weather Report
Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, ChandigarhClouds
21.5°C
28% (Humidity)
Team Form (Last 5 matches)
Probable Playing XI
Punjab Kings
P Simran Singh, JM Sharma (wk), Shikhar Dhawan (C), Shahrukh Khan, B Rajapaksa, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Brar, SM Curran, Nathan Ellis, RD Chahar, Arshdeep Singh
Bench : JM Bairstow, Harpreet Singh, A Taide, Shivam Singh, LS Livingstone, R Dhawan, Rajangad Bawa, Mohit Rathee, Baltej Singh, K Rabada, Vidhwath Kaverappa, MW Short
Kolkata Knight Riders
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Mandeep Singh, RK Singh, N Rana (C), AS Roy, AD Russell, SP Narine, Shardul Thakur, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy, UT Yadav
Bench : Narayan Jagadeesan, S Iyer, Liton Das, VR Iyer, Shakib Al Hasan, D Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, LH Ferguson, H Rana, K Khejroliya, Suyash Sharma
Injury and availability news
Pitch Report
140
Average Score
Player Picks
Shikhar Dhawan PBKS | BAT
He was the leading run-scorer for the Kings last season and scored 460 runs in 14 innings at an average of 38.33 and a strike rate of 122.66. He is the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament and is one of the two batters who have made over 6000 runs.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz KKR | WK
The wicketkeeper-batter was a part of the Gujarat Titans squad and was picked as a replacement player for Jason Roy. Gurbaz didn’t get a chance to feature in a game last season and was transferred to the Kolkata Knight Riders for his base price of INR 50 lakh. He has made 3104 runs in 124 T20 matches so far at a strike rate of 150.24.
Andre Russell KKR | ALL
The Jamaican all-rounder was one of the top performers for the Kolkata Knight Riders last season. He made 335 runs in 14 games at a strike rate of 174.47 and picked 17 wickets at an average of 16.35.
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Bhanuka Rajapaksa
PBKS | BAT
He played five games in the PSL 2023 and managed just 97 runs. He has managed to score just a single half-century in his last ten T20I outings.
Narayan Jagadeesan
KKR | WK
He made over 800 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy last season, but his strike rate in T20s is less than 120, which might be why KKR might not feature him in the startling lineup.
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