IPL 2026 PBKS vs RCB PBKS opt to bowl vs Jitesh-led RCB
Toss Punjab Kings selected to bowl vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Suyash Sharma comes into the staff instead of Patidar, whereas Romario Shepherd changed quick bowler Jacob Duffy. Rasikh Salam is probably going to are available because the Impact Player
A win won’t simply additional consolidate RCB’s place on the prime of the desk however may even mark their playoffs spot. PBKS, in the meantime, want to get out of the dropping rut. Nigh invincible within the first half of the league stage, PBKS have misplaced 5 straight video games within the second half. At the highest of the desk for the longest time, they’ve now slipped to fourth and one other defeat will additional weaken their playoff probabilities.
Punjab Kings bowling first XI: 1 Priyansh Arya, 2 Prabhsimran Singh (wk), 3 Cooper Connolly, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Shashank Singh, 6 Suryansh Shedge, 7 Azmatullah Omarzai, 8 Harpreet Brar, 9 Lockie Ferguson, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Impact choices: Marcus Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Musheer Khan, Praveen Dubey
RCB batting first XI: 1 Jacob Bethell, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Devdutt Padikkal, 4 Venkatesh Iyer, 5 Tim David, 6 Jitesh Sharma (capt, wk), 7 Romario Shepherd, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Suyash Sharma, 11 Josh Hazlewood
Impact choices: Rasikh Salam, Jordan Cox, Abhinandan Singh, Swapnil Singh, Kanishk Chouhan
