
KKR are currently placed in the seventh spot on the tournament’s points table, with three wins and five defeats in their eight games, earning only 6 points to their name.
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In this prediction, KKR vs PBKS Fantasy 11 prediction, Cricket tips, playing 11, pitch report, and latest injury updates for Match 44 of IPL 2025. The defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will take on the Punjab Kings (PBKS). The game will be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday, April 26, at 7:30 PM (IST). It will be a crucial game for both teams to improve their numbers in the tournament.
KKR are currently placed in the seventh spot on the tournament’s points table, with three wins and five defeats in their eight games, earning only 6 points to their name. They are coming off two consecutive defeats in their last two games. A win in this game will help them enter the list of ‘top four’ teams in the tournament standings.
On the other hand, Punjab Kings (PBKS) are in the fifth spot, with five wins and three losses in their eight games, having 10 points to their name. They lost to RCB by 7 wickets in the last game, following two consecutive wins against KKR and RCB, respectively. A win in this game will help them move to the third spot in the table, surpassing Mumbai Indians and RCB.
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Match Information- KKR vs PBKS Fantasy 11 Prediction
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Punjab Kings, Match 44
Indian Premier League, 26 Apr 2025, Sat, 7:30 PM IST ,Kolkata
Probable PlayingXI
Kolkata Knight Riders
RK Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya Rahane(C), Ramandeep Singh, VR Iyer, AD Russell, SP Narine, MM Ali, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Varun Chakravarthy, H Rana
Bench: Q de Kock, L Sisodia, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, AS Roy, Vaibhav Arora, M Markande, A Nortje, SH Johnson, C Sakariya, Umran Malik
Punjab Kings
S Iyer(C), MP Stoinis, N Wadhera, P Arya, Shashank Singh, M Jansen, P Simran Singh, JP Inglis, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Xavier Bartlett
Bench: Harnoor Singh, Pyla Avinash, Vishnu Vinod, Suryansh Shedge, GJ Maxwell, AM Hardie, Azmatullah Omarzai, Musheer Khan, P Dubey, Harpreet Brar, KR Sen, Vijaykumar Vyshak, YS Thakur, LH Ferguson
Pitch Report
Ajinkya Rahane KKR | bat
The KKR skipper and veteran batter, Ajinkya Rahane, has been in a brilliant run of form with the bat in the tournament’s current edition. He has scored 271 runs in eight innings, including an unbeaten appearance and an average of 38.71, hitting two half-centuries. He is also the leading run-scorer for his side in the tournament.
The star PBKS pacer Arshdeep Singh has scalped 11 wickets in eight innings, with a decent bowling strike rate of 15.81, including the best performance of ‘3 wickets at 43 runs in a game.’ He is also the leading wicket-taker for PBKS in the tournament’s current season.
Spencer Johnson- KKR | BOWL- 8.5