NEW DELHI: Royal Squaremakers Bengaluru captain Rajat Patidar won the patch and Mullanpur was chosen for the first time against Punjab Kings at IPL 2025 Qualifying 1 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Chandigarh. Instead of Nuwan Thushara, the RCB brought Australia Pace Josh Hazlewood and made a change in XI games.“We’ll be a bowl first. The small door looks very hard with a good grass cover and we’ll try to make the best use of the first few seas. In the last game, everyone gave more than 100 percent – Jitesh, Salt and Kohli a change for us: Hazlewood comes for Thushara,” Patidar said.Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer also made a single change, Azmatullah Omarzai came for Marco Jansen.Iyer, “First we would have bowling. We looked at the record here, the first shot teams did a good job, so I am optimistic. Crowded tremendous – when you walk to the field you need such an energy. Our openers show a fearless approach, Marco comes out and Azmatullah enters,” he said.
Why doesn’t Yuzvendra Chahal play today?Punjab Kings’s star Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal removed the eyebrows among the fans, the absence of XI player for this important match. In the 2025 auction, Chahahal, who was purchased for 18 Crore, was expected to play a key role in the playoffs.However, India’s leg Spinner is reported to deal with a small Niggle, which keeps it away from the last two league matches. Although he expressed hope about the healing of Chief Coach Ricky Ponting, Chahal was probably excluded from the squad because he was probably not fully matched.Play XIS:Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Josh Inglis (WK), Shreyas Iyer (c), because Wadhera, Shahank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Midpreeet brothers, Arshdeep Singh, Kyle JamiesonRoyal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Rajat Patidar (C), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Gambling, Yash Based, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash
Impact Substitutions:PBKS: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Praveen Dubey, Syriansh Shedge, Musheer Khan, Xavier BartlettRCB: Mayyay Agarwal, Rasikh Salam, Manoj Bhandagage, Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh
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