KKR vs PBKS / Punjab Kings won the toss and chose to bowl first - see playing 11

KKR vs PBKS: Today Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will face Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the 42nd match of IPL-2024. The match will be played at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata from 7:30 pm. Punjab won the toss and chose to bowl. Jonny Bairstow has returned in place of Liam Livingston. KKR and PBKS will face each other for the first time this season. This will be Kolkata's eighth match this season. The team is second in the points table with 10 points after 5 wins and 2 losses out of 7. On the other hand, Punjab will have its ninth match. The team won only 2 out of 8 matches, while faced defeat in 6. PBKS is at number 9 in the table with 4 points.

Punjab won the toss

Punjab Kings won the toss and decided to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders. Shikhar Dhawan is not playing in this match also. In his place, Sam Curran came for the toss. Karan has made a change in the playing-11. Jonny Bairstow has been included in the playing-11 in place of Liam Livingstone. At the same time, Kolkata has also made a change in the playing-11. Mitchell Starc suffered a finger injury. Dushmantha Chameera has been included in the team in his place.

Playing-11 of both the teams

Kolkata Knight Riders: Phil Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Dushmantha Chameera, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Suyyash Sharma.

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Riley Rousseau, Jommy Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Harshal Patel.