Punjab Kings skipper Shikhar Dhawan opted to bat against Kolkata Knight Riders after successful the toss in an IPL match, right here on May 8.
Kolkata Knight Riders retained the facet that received against Sunrisers Hyderabad within the earlier match.
Punjab Kings made one change, bringing again Bhanuka Rajapakasa rather than Matthew Short.
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma and Varun Chakaravarthy.
Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sam Curran, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Rahul Chahar and Arshdeep Singh.