IPL 2026: KKR elects to bat against PBKS; Injured Chakravarthy, unwell Narine miss out

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Punjab Kings' Yuzvendra Chahal and Nehal Wadhera during warm-up earlier the IPL 2026 lucifer betwixt Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings astatine the Eden Gardens, Kolkata connected April 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters

Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Ajinkya Rahane won the flip and elected to bat against Punjab Kings successful an Indian Premier League lucifer successful Kolkata connected Monday (April 6, 2026).

KKR, who person mislaid some their opening games this season, made 2 changes, bringing successful Rovman Powell and Navdeep Saini successful spot of an unwell Sunil Narine and enigma spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who is retired of this lucifer owed to an injury.

“Varun Chakaravarthy got injured portion taking the drawback successful the past game,” KKR skipper Rahane said astatine the toss.

Punjab Kings, who person won some their games truthful far, person retained the playing XI from the erstwhile match.

Teams

Punjab Kings: Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Navdeep Saini, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi.

Published - April 06, 2026 07:35 p.m. IST

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