पंजाब किंग्स बनाम कोलकाता नाइट राइडर्स: मुल्लांपुर की पिच रिपोर्ट और मौसम का हाल
Mullanpur: The Punjab Kings team, which failed to defend their big score due to Abhishek Sharma’s explosive innings in the last match, will have to face another challenging rival in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here on Tuesday as Kolkata Knight Riders.
It is rarely seen that despite scoring a big score of 245 runs, a team had to face defeat, but in the last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings could not defend their score due to Abhishek’s 141 -run explosive innings played off 55 balls.
Captain Shreyas Iyer, who scored 82 off 36 balls in Punjab Kings’s innings, had no other option but to smile in front of Abhishek’s plight. The match was played in Hyderabad where no score is considered safe.
Punjab will now play its next match on its home ground on Tuesday where the wicket is considered favorable for batting. Two matches have been played here so far, in which the team who batted first scored more than 200 runs. In such a situation, the team management of Punjab will now have to decide what kind of circumstances they want to play. If Punjab makes a flat wicket for this match, then there is no guarantee that its bowlers will defend the score of up to 220 runs as Kolkata team has aggressive batsmen like Sunil Naren, Rinku Singh and Venkatesh Iyer. If Punjab prepares a slow wicket, then this bet may also turn upside down because Knight Riders have spinners like Varun Chakraborty and Sunil Naren who are adept at taking advantage of favorable conditions. Knight Riders is a team that can show their amazing wickets on both flat and slow wickets. He had defeated Chennai Super Kings at his home ground, which would surely increase the morale of the team.
The batting of Punjab Kings is largely dependent on captain Iyer (250 runs), who have scored three fifties in five matches so far. Priyansh Arya (194 runs) is searching for this season. Nehal Vadhera (141 runs), Prabhasimran Singh (133 runs) and Finisher Shashank Singh (108 runs) are also strong side of the team. But the weak link of Punjab is not its Indian player but two Australian Glenn Maxwell (34 runs) and Marcus Stoinis (59 runs), who have not made special contribution with the bat,
Punjab Kings Squad: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Vadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Vishak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod, Marco Johnson, Lockey Ferguson, Josh England, Xavier Bartlet, Kuldeep Senansh, Payla Avinash Shade, Harnoor, Harnoor Pannu, Aaron Hardy, Priyansh Arya, Ajmatullah Umarjai.
Squad of Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rowman Powell, Manish Pandey, Lavanith Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Sucht Roy, Moin Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Rasel, Enrich Nock, Vaibhav Nockia, Vaibhav Arora, Vaikandi, Spacer, Spacer, Johnson, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narayan, Varun Chakraborty and Chetan Sakaria.
