Punjab have registered two wins this season against Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. In both games, captain KL Rahul led from the front and produced the highest individual score for Punjab. In the race for the Orange Cap, only Shikhar Dhawan has more runs than the Punjab skipper. With the ball, Mohammad Shami and Arshdeep Singh both have 6 wickets to their name.
KKR’s only win of this IPL season was mainly due to a 56-ball 80 from Nitish Rana, however, he has only made 106 further runs across four innings. Elsewhere in the side, half-centuries have come from Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell and Pat Cummins. With the ball, Russell remains the leading wicket taker but 5 of his 7 wickets came in one game.
Punjab Kings have persisted with Chris Gayle at the expense of Dawid Malan who is still yet to get a game in the IPL. For KKR, we haven’t seen an appearance from Kiwis Lockie Ferguson and Tim Seifert or Aussie Ben Cutting.
PBKS vs KKR Win Probability
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PBKS vs KKR T20 Match Prediction & Betting Tips, IPL 2021
This week’s IPL fixtures kick off with Punjab Kings taking on bottom of the table Kolkata Knight Riders. Punjab Kings are on four points from five games after surprising many with a 9 wicket win over reigning champions Mumbai Indians in their last match. KKR are struggling, after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad in their opening game they have lost their next four. Read on as we preview this clash of the 2021 IPL. The match will be the first IPL game played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad and will get underway at 19:30 local time.
Any side who defeats the reigning champions will come into the next game with a spring in their step. Furthermore, any team with KL Rahul in his current form at the top of their order will always have a chance. Mohammad Shami took 2-21 from his 4 overs against Mumbai Indians and looks to be coming into form at the right time.
With the exception of Nitish Rana against Sunrisers and Andre Russell against Mumbai Indians, none of the other KKR players have produced any kind of match-winning display. They need two or three players to come good in the same game to give themselves a platform to build on,
PBKS vs KKR T20 Match Live streaming
Tv Channels: The match can be watched live on Star Sports in India, Sky Cricket in the UK and Willow TV in the USA
Live Streaming: Fans in India can stream the match on Disney+ Hotstar.
PBKS vs KKR Match Toss Prediction
Winning the toss and choosing to field has been the popular choice so far in the 2021 IPL. We expect this to continue in this game although a new ground may provoke a change in some skippers’ minds.
PBKS vs KKR Match Pitch Report
After the low and sticky pitch in Chennai and pacy surface in Mumbai, we wait to see what the Ahmedabad pitch offers. In the India v England T20I series, totals grew from match to match with India posting 224 in the final game.
Weather Report
Mainly clear, the game will begin with temperatures not far off the earlier high of 43 degrees but will end closer to 30.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL 2021.
PBKS Team News & Playing 11
PBKS Team News
It would take a brave coach or captain to make changes to a side after beating the champions from the last two IPLs by 9 wickets. We expect coach Kumble and captain Rahul to keep the same XI for this game.
PBKS Key Players
KL Rahul - the captain continues to deliver at the top of the order. Put simply, with scores of 91, 5, 61, 4 and 60*, if KKR don’t get him early then they will regret it.
Mohammad Shami - the pace bowler took the crucial wicket of Rohit Sharma in their win over Mumbai Indians and he is slowly finding his feet in this year’s tournament. His economy rate of 5.25 from 4 overs was also impressive.
Ravi Bishnoi - the young leg-spinner took 12 wickets in his debut IPL season last year but was left out of Punjab’s first four games. However, he showed his worth with the wickets of Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav in his first game of this year’s tournament.
PBKS Team Form
Their two wins in the 2021 IPL are separated by three defeats so they will be looking to back up their win against Mumbai in this game. KL Rahul, as ever, is crucial.
PBKS Predicted Playing 11
KL Rahul (c) (wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Moises Henriques, Shahrukh Khan, Fabian Allen, Mohammad Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh
PBKS vs KKR Dream11 Team Prediction, Captain, Vice Captain
Wicket-keeper
KL Rahul (10.5) will be our wicket-keeper. If he gets a start you know that the Punjab captain will deliver a more than useful score.
Batsmen
Chris Gayle (9.5), Mayank Agarwal (9), Nitesh Rana (9) and Rahul Tripathi (8) are our batsmen. None have incredible averages in the tournament with Rana at the top with 37.20, this is an opportunity for all.
All-rounders
Andre Russell (10.5) and Deepak Hooda (8.5) will be our all-rounders. Both have contributed in each discipline with Russell producing a big performance with bat and ball.
Bowlers
Mohammad Shami (9), Varun Chakravarthy (8.5), Arshdeep Singh (8.5) and Ravi Bishnoi (8.5) make up our bowling attack. Now back in the Punjab team, it will be very interesting to watch the progress of Bishnoi.
Captain/Vice-captain
KL Rahull will be captain, Mohammad Shami his deputy
Bowler:Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi
PBKS vs KKR Match Prediction
KKR Team News & Playing 11
KKR Team News
Four defeats in a row in IPL 2021 leaves Eoin Morgan under pressure as skipper and unsure of his best team. The temptation must be to unleash Lockie Ferguson but the surface in Ahmedabad may be more conducive to a return for Shakib Al-Hasan.
KKR Key Players
Nitish Rana - KKR’s leading run scorer in this year’s competition has passed 50 on two occasions this season already. However, he needs some team-mates to back him up or else his contributions will matter little.
Eoin Morgan - the England white-ball captain has registered only 45 runs at an average of 9.00 in the tournament so far. A far cry from 2020 when he hit 418 at 41.80. His return to form can’t come soon enough.
Pat Cummins - similar to the 2020 season, Cummins has delivered more with the bat than the ball up to now. His wickets are currently costing 45.5 and he is capable of so much more.
KKR Team Form
The IPL is a horrible competition to endure a bad run of form, as every game comes thick and fast. Four losses in four successive games doesn’t look good in any light.
KKR Predicted Playing 11
Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c) , Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shakib Al-Hasan, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna
PBKS vs KKR Team Form in Last Five Matches
PBKS : WLLLW
KKR : LLLLW
PBKS vs KKR Head to Head
After 27 games, KKR have won twice as many games as Punjab Kings
PBKS vs KKR Head to Head Stats in IPL T20
Matches Played
PBKS Won
KKR Won
Tie
No Result
27
18
9
0
0
PBKS vs KKR Betting Odds
Punjab Kings are favourites to register successive wins for the first time in this year’s IPL
Who will win PBKS vs KKR IPL T20 Match?
KL Rahul and Nitesh Rana have the pressure on them to make significant scores
We are backing KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal and Chris Gayle with the bat for Punjab Kings. The top three were all that was required against Mumbai Indians and we fancy them to deliver again.
For KKR we are backing Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill and Rahul Tripathi. Rana has produced two half-centuries but even he needs to be making more runs, as does the whole team.
We are backing Mohammad Shami, Arshdeep Singh and Ravi Bishnoi to cause the most problems for the KKR batsmen. Shami and Bishnoi were particularly impressive against Mumbai Indians.
For KKR we have gone with Varun Chakravarthy, Pat Cummins and Andre Russell. Chakravarthy has been the most consistent with an economy rate of 8.05 and his wickets costing 26.83
KKR have been under par for much of the tournament so far and we expect to see an improvement from Eoin Morgan’s side in this game. However, coming off the back of a 9-wicket win against the current holders, we are backing Punjab Kings to come out on top in this game also.
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Time for the Promotion of Chris Gayle at the top of the order in PBKS lineup.
Punjab Kings has bounced back in IPL 2021 with the win over Mumbai Indians. They will look to complete another win over KKR but they should make some changes with batting positions. They should allow Chris Gayle to open the innings. Everyone knows how dangerous a batsman is Gayle when he opens the innings. It will allow him to face more balls and can get few big hits of the bowlers in later stages of the matches.
01:26 pm | 26-04-2021
KL Rahul, Eoin Morgan, Chris Gayle nearing milestones
Chris Gayle needs 109 runs to complete 5000 runs in IPL. KL Rahul has scored 20 fifties for PBKS. He needs 1 more half-century to go past Shaun Marsh (20) at the top for PBKS. Eoin Morgan needs 43 more runs to complete 7000 T20 runs overall.
10:12 am | 26-04-2021
Punjab aim to Keep winning momentum against Bottom Placed KKR
Punjab will look to keep the winning momentum on after winning their last game against MI. They defeated defending champions convincingly by 9 wickets. The Chris Gayle was back in form and KL Rahul as usual hit another half century. Nicolas Pooran may be replaced by Dawid Malan as he has not made any significant contribution with the bat.
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Md Faruk
Punjab needs to think about their bowling plan as they have given more runs in death overs.
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Anand
Kkr is in so bad form in this year ipl , none of their star players like morgan and andre russel hav performed as expected. Punjab with a win in last match will be highly motivated and can beat kkr
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Baitul Ahmed
KKR will have to win this match if they want to go for playoff. They are at last position so far.
Apr 26, 2021
19:30 IST / 14:00 GMT
Narendra Modi Stadium - Ahmedabad, India
Punjab needs to think about their bowling plan as they have given more runs in death overs.
Kkr is in so bad form in this year ipl , none of their star players like morgan and andre russel hav performed as expected. Punjab with a win in last match will be highly motivated and can beat kkr
KKR will have to win this match if they want to go for playoff. They are at last position so far.