Today's match between Punjab and Kolkata in IPL, know the possible playing-11 of both the teams

Kolkata Knight Riders will face Punjab Kings today in the 42nd match of IPL 2024. This match will be played at Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata from 7.30 pm. The toss of this match will take place at 7 pm. Kolkata and Punjab will face each other for the first time this season. This will be Kolkata's 8th match this season. The team is at second position in the points table with 10 points after winning 5 out of 7 matches. This will be the 9th competition of Punjab. The team has won only 2 out of 8 matches, while it has faced defeat in 6. Punjab Kings is at 9th position in the table with 4 points.

kkr vs pbks ipl 2024

If we talk about head to head here, Kolkata team dominates Punjab. A total of 32 IPL matches have been played between the two teams so far. Kolkata won in 21 and Punjab won in 11. Kolkata has won five out of seven matches in the season. Kolkata defeated Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow and Bangalore in two matches. The team had to face defeat in 2 matches. The team had to face defeat at the hands of Chennai and Rajasthan. Punjab has lost 6 matches this season. Punjab faced competition from Bangalore, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Rajasthan, Mumbai and Gujarat. The team got wins only against Delhi and Gujarat.

Talking about the pitch of Eden Gardens Stadium, the pitch here is suitable for batting. So far 90 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. Here the teams batting first have won 37 matches and the teams batting later have won 53 matches. The highest score of the team in this stadium is 235, which was made by Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata last year.

kkr vs pbks ipl 2024

Probable playing eleven of both the teams
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana.

Punjab Kings: Sam Curran (captain), Prabhsimran Singh, Reilly Rousseau, Jitesh Sharma (victory), Liam Livingston, Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabara and Arshdeep Singh.