Before this clash, he featured in all eight games for KKR so far.
Ramandeep Singh, who has played all eight games for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) this season, has been dropped from the Playing XI for the clash against Punjab Kings. In place of the middle-order batter, Chetan Sakariya, a bowler, will take the field.
“Sakariya comes in for Ramandeep,” Ajinkya Rahane, KKR skipper, said at the coin toss.
The 28-year-old Ramandeep has had a streak of underwhelming performances in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In the five matches he batted, he has made only 30 runs at a strike rate of 115.38. He crossed the double-digit mark just once when he struck a 12-ball 22 run against Mumbai Indians.
On the other hand, the left-arm medium-fast bowler is making his KKR debut tonight. Previously, he has played for Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals. In his IPL career of 29 games so far, Sakariya has scalped 30 wickets at a decent economy rate of a little over eight.
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Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Rovman Powell, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Impact Subs: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Anrich Nortje, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy.
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer(c), Josh Inglis(w), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Impact Subs: Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey.
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