The Punjab Kings has made a strange change in their XI game for the 2025 match IPL against Kolkata Knight Riders. The side led by Shreyas Iyer dropped Marcus Stoinis. Until now, the versatile Stoinis has 59 points in five games when he has not yet taken a counter in IPL 2025. Just before the PBKS VS KKR match, the visuals showed that the Ponting coach said something in Stoinis. Former Zimbabwe cricket player Pommie Mbangwa, who was in the comments box, said: “They had to deliberate a lot on the team. It seems that the decision was made here even on the ground. Stoinis has its gloves and bats.
Stoinis emptied after being put on the bench despite the entire physical form – the call of the ponting coach
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Simon Doull, a former New Zealand player, was also surprised. “Is he injured? Shreyas Iyer said something about Stinus injured? If he is not injured, it’s amazing. What did he get in the back in the last match, Stoinis? He broke thirty, was he in the back?
Unless they think, I mean, how many leftists are in this programming of Kolkata with? Maxwell can play a role with Kock, Narine there, Venkatesh Iyer in the middle order and Rinku at 6 or 7 years old. So maybe they think Maxwell has to play a little role.
“I didn’t think it was so bad. But you know, these are horrible figures. And keeping it in the team only as a bowling option is very interesting,” he added.
PBKS won the draw and chose to first fight against Kolkata Knight Riders during the 2025 IPL clash here in Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The local team has made two changes while Josh Inglis and Australia Batter Xavier Bartlett were both put back in their early days. “We are going to beat first. Remember that the counter has been very good for the last two games, the dew is coming, but the external field does not slip. I do not remember that the team changes, I will say it later. We have to take as much captures in the field and create a kind of shine,” said the skipper of Punjab Kings Shipper Shipper.
The reigning champions made a change in their game 11 with Anrich Nortje replacing Moeen Ali.
“We were first trying to play on this counter. For me, the throw is something that you cannot control. We have a striker who can chase the target. Only one change. Nortje arrives for Moeen Ali. He worked hard on his game and I really can’t wait to see him Bowl tonight,” said Captain Kkr Ajinkya Rahane.
Play xis
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (W), Shreyas Iyer (C), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvenda Chahal.
Impact substitutes: Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock (W), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Impact substitutes: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey.
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