In the 18th Indian Premier League match 2025 (IPL 2025), Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) lock the horns on Saturday, April 5th.
The match between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) hosts the International Krijkaket Stadium of the Maharaja Yadavavandra Singh in Mullanpur.
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Punjab is not a team known for its dominance at home. Since the season 2023, they had three different places like home. From the PCA stadium in Mohali, they moved the base to Maharaja Yadavandra Singh International Crickket Stadium in Mullanpur, while playing home games in Dharamsala.
PBKS faced four defeats of five games in Mullanpur and Dharamsali had without victory. However, under the head coach Ricky Ponting and Captain Shreyas Iyer, they looked like a completely different unit, starting a campaign with the victories of return connections-which is an unknown territory for Punjab Kings.
They will be looking forward to continuing the dominant running against Rajasthan Royals, who rejected two early defeats with a win over Chennai Super Kings.
Although they have been able to register a victory, they have a lot of problems to deal with progress in competition. One of the problems they had was with the lead, because the Riyan Parag was a captain’s team with Sanja Samson is not completely completely. However, this question was now resolved when Samson was declared appropriate to lead the side.
Talking about head to head record, Rajasthan Royals have an advantage of 16-12 over Punjab kings that includes six wins of nine of the 2020s.
IPL 2025: Punjab kings win in throwing and decide to the field
Speaking after winning in throwing, PBKS Skipper Shreyas Iyer said everyone in the camp was highly in the mood. He elaborated:
“We will thicken first. Looking at the last game, we played on New Wicket and we want to see the tone play.
“We need to maintain calm and calm throughout the season. We have played training here, so we know how to play Wickket. We played our last two games on the red soil, so we hope we can adapt early. We have the champion thinking. First bowling, there is no change for us. Maybe change things with influence.”
In the meantime, Captain RR Sanja Samson said he was happy to get the opportunity to taste first. He stated:
“Pretty happy to hit and put it decent first. We have a little whistle for Tushara Deshpande, so he is today, and Yudhvir comes for him.”
IPL 2025: List of players of impact nominated PBKS and RR in Match 18
Rajasthan Royals Impact Subs: Kunal Singh Rathore, Shubham Dubey, Phazalhaq Farooqi, Kumar Cartikeya, Akash Madhwal
Punjab Kings Impact Subs: Priyansh Arya, Harpreet Brar, Real Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar
IPL 2025: PBKS VS RR – Playing XISA
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Prabhsimran Singh (W), Shreyas Iyer (C), Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadher, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shedge, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvend
Rajasthan Royals (playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanja Samson (C), Nor wound, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (W), Shimron Hetmyer, Waninu Hasarang, Jofra Archeep, Maheesh, Yudhvine, Yudhvire
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