IPL 2022 KKR vs PBKS Highlights: Russell muscles Kolkata to six wicket win

IPL KKR vs PBKS Update: One of the best innings of the season so far by Andre Russell (70 off 31 balls) muscled Kolkata Knight Riders past Punjab Kings to a six-wicket win with 33 balls remaining

7:55 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Punjab Kings 43-2 after 04 over, Rajapaksa out after entertaining knock

 

 

Six!! Tim Southee has been taken out of the attack and it is Shivam Mavi who is now and Rajapaksa says hello to Mavi with a huge six over mid-wicket 

 

Six!! Wow... this guy is batting at another level altogether has Mavi bowls ta the same length once again and once again he has been dispatched for a six. This time around an even bigger one. Wow. Already 16 runs off the first three balls 

 

Six!! This is getting out of hand now, this indeed is. Slower ball from Mavi and Rajapaksa kneels down and dispatches this over deep square leg for the third six in the row and there was a fourth on the first ball to go alongside 

 

Gone!! Wicket!! So it is Mavi who will have the last laugh. Rajapaksa was beaten by bounce and pace here and he plays the ball on the up which was short and fast and needed the batter to go on the backfoot. But his on the rising shot could not go far enough and was caught at mid-off by Tim Southee. 

 

But what an innings nonetheless as he gets 31 off just 9 balls at a strike rate of 344

7:45 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Punjab Kings 20-1 after 03 over, Umesh's rhythm disturbed

 

The Punjab players now think that the only way to tackle the swing is by coming out of the case and attacking the ball and they are doing that only 

 

Four!! Wow...that's some talent there from the Sri Lankan as he just caresses this through Cover-Point and Point

 

Six!! Yes, that's Shikhar Dhawan for you. He will come down the ground and hit the pace bowlers over their head and collected sixes and that's what he does. And then takes a single on the very next ball and frustrates the bowler even more 

7:41 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Punjab Kings 7-1 after 02 over, Four from Rajapaksa

 

After Umesh Yadav, another swing bowler Tim Southee has come into the attack and started proceedings with an inswinger to left-handed Shikhar Dhawana which would usually be an outswinger to a right hander. Dhawan looks troubled by the lengths. 

 

Four!! But not Bhanuka. Thre Sri Lankan goes see ball hit ball as he lifts the full ball over the of-side inner circle and for four 

7:37 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Punjab Kings 2-1 after 01 over, Umesh on fire

 

This is now the third match in a row that Umesh Yadav has managed to get a wicket in the Powerplay itself and while in the first two games it was with the outswinger, this was a pearler of an in-swinger as Maynak Agwarwal was derived by the sped and the ball crashed on his pads. Agarwal lbw Umesh for 1

7:35 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Punjab Kings 2-1 after 01 over, Umesh strikes in the first over again

7:33 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Knight Riders' Playing 11 ICYMO

7:32 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Punjab Kings Playing 11 ICYMO

7:31 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Let's begin

 

We are all settled for the start of the match between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders with Umesh Yadav with the ball in the nad to begin the proceedings and the pair of Mayank Agarwal and Shikhar Dhawan to face him gotta be a cracker!!

7:13 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Playing XIs out

 

KKR Playing 11

 

Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer(c), Sam Billings (wk), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy

 

PBKS Playing 11

 

Mayank Agarwal(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Bhanuka Rajapaksa(w), Shahrukh Khan, Odean Smith, Raj Bawa, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar

7:13 PM

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7:07 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Shreyas Iyer wins the toss and chose to bowl first

 

KKR captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first at the Wankhede wicket which was no surprise. However, surprising was the decision to drop Sheldon Jackson after just one bad game with the bat. But more than dropping Jackson, it is about playing five bowlers and that's what Iyer has gone for. Shivam Mavi comes in for Sheldon Jackson. Sam Billings would keep wickets

 

Punjab Kings too have made change in their Playing 11 and Kagiso Rabada has come in place of Sandeep Sharma. It was expected that KG would come back but in place of Harpreet Brar, instead of Sandeep Sharma. 

6:58 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Raj Angad Bawa should be given another chance?

 

The 19-year-old from Chandigarh was played in the very first game and it was a matter of brave decision making on the part of the Punjab Kings think tank to do that because even Yash Dhull and Rajvardhan Hangargekar weren't played by their respective teams and not a single U-19 start had made their debut in the IPL so far. 

 

But Bawa failed, maybe because of pressure or maybe the next level of butterflies in the stomach. He was not even bowled, another thing that needs to be taken care of by the Punjab Kings unit because Bawa here is a genuine all-rounder and he must be played like that. 

 

6:51 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Pat Cummins back, but won't be part of the 11 just yet

6:43 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | How will the Wankhede pitch behave?

 

The dew that was present in the last match between CSK and LSG at the Brabourne Stadium was just huge. Wankhede is not far away and similar sort of conditions are expected there too hence, even though there is some early swing available for fast bowlers and KKR have shown how lethal they are with swing early on from Southee and Umesh Yadav, the team batting second will have way more advantage as compared to the one batting first.

6:40 PM

IPL 2022 LIVE Score | KKR vs PBKS | Strategy for Punjab Kings

 

Kagiso Rabada is back for Punjab Kings. Thus Punjab would most likely play Rabada in place of Harpreet Brar the left-arm spinner as Liam Livingstone and Odeanb Smith alongside Raj Bawa could together complete the quote of four overs and if need be can also compensate 1-2 overs if one of the four main bowlers in Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma, and Rahul Chahar goes for many runs.

 

PBKS Predicted Playing 11

 

Mayank Agarwal(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Bhanuka Rajapaksa(w), Shahrukh Khan, Odean Smith, Raj Bawa, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Sharma, Rahul Chahar