Punjab Kings skipper Mayank Agarwal gained the toss and elected to bat towards Rajasthan Royals on Saturday at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Punjab are in a tough place as they’ll’t afford a loss at this stage of the match. They registered a large win towards table-toppers of their earlier conflict with 24 balls to spare.

Punjab determined to go together with the identical XI as they didn’t need to disturb the profitable mixture.

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Skipper Mayank Agarwal feels that the wicket would possibly get slower within the second half and so they need to take the benefit of it.

“We’d prefer to bat first. Looks like a superb wicket, would possibly get slower as the sport progresses. It is vital to grasp the situations. It would possibly flip within the second innings. Fantastic from Liam to go on the market and do what he did, I’m glad. We are enjoying the identical facet,” Mayank mentioned on the toss.

After the clash against GT, Mayank revealed that he will bat at number 4 as Jonny Bairstow will continue to open the innings for Punjab alongside Shikhar Dhawan.

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Rajasthan made a change in their XI as Yashasvi Jaiswal returned and is expected to return the innings alongside Jos Buttler while Karun Nair got dropped.

RR skipper Sanju Samson looked calm at the toss as he said his team is ready to go in the middle and have some fun.

“We are losing quite a few tosses, we’d have batted first as well. We are a balanced side. It’s a different challenge, we are ready to go out there and have some fun. Being a day game, spinners might get some help. One change – Karun Nair misses out, Yashasvi Jaiswal comes in,” Samson mentioned.

Royals misplaced their earlier sport towards Mumbai Indians are raring to get again to the profitable methods.

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Jonny Bairstow, Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal(c), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Rishi Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma

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