The second match of the IPL 2023 season will be played between Punjab and Kolkata on April 1st at Mohali, with the toss taking place at 3 PM IST. Both teams will be looking to start their IPL campaign with a win, and while Kolkata will be without their regular captain Shreyas Iyer, it will be interesting to see how Nitish Rana operates. Punjab will rely heavily on the experience of veteran Shikhar Dhawan.
For fantasy cricket enthusiasts, here is the Dream11 team prediction for the PBKS vs KKR match. The captain of the team is Shikhar Dhawan, while the vice-captain is Andre Russell. The predicted playing XI for both teams are as follows:
PBKS: Shikhar Dhawan, Prabsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Shahrukh Khan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar
KKR: Venkatesh Iyer, N Jadgadeesan, Nitish Rana, Mandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora
The impact players for both teams are Rishi Dhawan for PBKS and David Wiese for KKR. The squads for both teams are also listed for reference.
