Both sides are stacked with world-class cricketers who have not really been able to perform at the level necessary to win the competition.
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The Punjab Kings (PBKS) and the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have had forgettable seasons so far, with KL Rahul’s men sitting at fifth after managing to win twice in their previous five matches while the men in purple and gold sit at the bottom of the points table after four consecutive defeats. Given their most recent performances, one can say that match 21 of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) could be tipped in favor of KL Rahul’s men. However, the competition has often shown that form can sometimes just go out of the window, as PBKS only demonstrated against defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI).
Both sides are stacked with world-class cricketers who have not really been able to perform at the level necessary to win the competition. Therefore, it would be a head-scratching dilemma for fantasy players to choose a team based on players from these two franchises that would be perfectly balanced.
Wicket-keepers: KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik
Batters: Chris Gayle, Nitish Rana, Mayank Agarwal
All-rounders: Andre Russell, Deepak Hooda
Bowlers:” Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy
PBKS: KL Rahul (Captain & WK), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Moises Henriques, Shahrukh Khan, Nicholas Pooran, Fabian Allen, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh
KKR: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (Captain), Shakib Al Hasan, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy
PBKS: KL Rahul (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Fabian Allen, Saurabh Kumar.
KKR: Eoin Morgan (Captain), Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Pawan Negi, Tim Seifert, Shakib al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer.
