PBKS won the toss and chose to bat.

When the two sides met for the first time this season, PBKS successfully defended the lowest-ever total in IPL history, defeating KKR by just 16 runs.

Glenn Maxwell and Azmatullah Omarzai have been included in the playing XI for PBKS while KKR also have made two changes bringing in Rovman Powell and Chetan Sakariya, replacing Moeen Ali and Ramandeep Singh.

Playing XI

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Rovman Powell, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.

Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer (c), Josh Inglis (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Impact players:

KKR: Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia.

PBKS: Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan, Pravin Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge.