Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant has won the toss and elected to bowl first against the Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League 2026. The first ball will be bowled at 07:30 pm IST.
"We will bowl first as we want them to post the total for us. Hopefully, we will play freely in the second innings. PBKS have been one of the best batting units in the IPL," Rishabh Pant said.
Shreyas Iyer is looking forward to the challenge of batting first.
"It is a great challenge for us to bat first. It will help us for the remaining matches. It will be a big challenge for the players as we haven't batted first. If we embrace the opportunity, there is a chance of coming up. We haven't been at our best and need a comprehensive win," Shreyas Iyer said.
LSG XI: 1 Mitchell Marsh, 2 Ayush Badoni, 3 Rishabh Pant (Capt, wk),4 Aiden Markram, 5 Nicholas Pooran, 6 Mukul Choudhary, 7 Mohammed Shami, 8 Avesh Khan, 9 Prince Yadav, 10 M Siddharth, 11 Mohsin Khan
PBKS XI: 1 Prabhsimran Singh (wk), 2 Priyansh Arya, 3 Cooper Connolly, 4 Shreyas Iyer (Capt), 5 Nehal Wadhera, 6 Shashank Singh, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Marco Jansen, 9 Xavier Bartlett, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
LSG Impact options - Himmat Singh, Abdul Samad, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Digvesh Rathi
PBKS Impact options - Vyshak Vijaykumar, Harpreet Brar, Suyansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod
LSG captain Rishabh Pant has won the toss and elected to bowl first.
The toss took place at 07:00 pm IST.
Rishabh Pant has opted to bat first because he wants to chase the target.
Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, New Chandigarh
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