Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) play of their event opener in IPL 2023 on the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali on April 1, Saturday. This match would be the first of the 2 recreation scheduled within the Saturday double-header. Punjab Kings can be led by new captain Shikhar Dhawan whereas KKR are being led led by Nitish Rana. One widespread issue between these two sides is each their squads have some key gamers lacking as a result of accidents. KKR’s common captain Shreyas Iyer is down with a recurring again harm whereas Punjab Kings will miss England’s Jonny Bairstow.
The England wicketkeeper and batter was not given the clearance by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) because the cricket board doesn’t need to take any danger together with his leg harm. Bairstow had damaged his leg whereas enjoying the golf final 12 months forward of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022. He has recovered from the harm however with Ashes 2023 and ICC ODI World Cup scheduled to happen later this 12 months, ECB needs Bairstow match and prepared.
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ECB is but to provide clearance letter to Liam Livingstone as effectively. As per stories, Livingstone has not obtained the NOC after recovering from a knee harm he suffered in December final 12 months.
India all-rounder Shardul Thakur is prone to make his KKR debut on this match. Thakur has earlier performed for CSK and DC previously. Sikandar Raza, the Zimbabwean participant, may also be making his IPL debut. PBKS will take coronary heart from the truth that England’s star all-rounder and IPL’s costliest participant Sam Curran can be out there for choice from th first match itself.
PBKS Probable Playing 11: Shikhar Dhawan, Prabsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Shahrukh Khan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar
KKR Probable Playing 11: Venkatesh Iyer, N Jadgadeesan, Nitish Rana, Mandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora
PBKS Likely Impact Player: Rishi Dhawan
KKR Likely Impact Player: David Weise