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]IPL 2026, Match 12: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Punjab Kings Predicted Playing XIs
by Dwijesh
Kolkata Knight Riders will face Punjab Kings in the 12th match of IPL 2026 on April 6th at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata starting at 7:30 PM. Ajinkya Rahane will lead KKR, while Shreyas Iyer will captain PBKS in this match.
There are fantastic players across the two squads and you can expect great performances from players such as Finn Allen, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer and Priyansh Arya. It will be interesting to see what their final predicted playing XI looks like prior to events both sides play at this significant event.
Match Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Match | Kolkata Knight Riders vs Punjab Kings |
| Date | Monday, 6 April 2026 |
| Time | 7:30 PM IST |
| Tournament | IPL 2026 |
| Match No. | 12th T20 |
| Venue | Eden Gardens, Kolkata |
| Broadcast | Star Sports Network, JioHotstar |
KKR vs PBKS – Full Squad
| Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) | Punjab Kings (PBKS) |
|---|---|
| Rinku Singh (Batter) | Shreyas Iyer (C) (Batter) |
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi (Batter) | Nehal Wadhera (Batter) |
| Rovman Powell ✈️ (Batter) | Priyansh Arya (All-rounder) |
| Ajinkya Rahane (C) (Batter) | Shashank Singh (Batter) |
| Manish Pandey (Batter) | Pyla Avinash (Batter) |
| Sunil Narine ✈️ (All-rounder) | Harnoor Singh (Batter) |
| Ramandeep Singh (Batter) | Musheer Ahmed Khan (All-rounder) |
| Anukul Roy (All-rounder) | Prabhsimran Singh (WK) |
| Varun Chakaravarthy (Bowler) | Vishnu Vinod (WK) |
| Vaibhav Arora (Bowler) | Marcus Stoinis ✈️ (All-rounder) |
| Umran Malik (Bowler) | Marco Jansen ✈️ (All-rounder) |
| Cameron Green ✈️ (All-rounder) | Azmatullah Omarzai ✈️ (All-rounder) |
| Finn Allen ✈️ (WK) | Suryansh Shedge (All-rounder) |
| Matheesha Pathirana ✈️ (Bowler) | Mitchell Owen ✈️ (All-rounder) |
| Kartik Tyagi (Bowler) | Arshdeep Singh (Bowler) |
| Prashant Solanki (Bowler) | Vyshak Vijaykumar (Bowler) |
| Tejasvi Dahiya (WK) | Yash Thakur (Bowler) |
| Rahul Tripathi (Batter) | Xavier Bartlett ✈️ (Bowler) |
| Tim Seifert ✈️ (WK) | Lockie Ferguson ✈️ (Bowler) |
| Sarthak Ranjan (Batter) | Yuzvendra Chahal (Bowler) |
| Daksh Kamra (All-rounder) | Harpreet Brar (Bowler) |
| Rachin Ravindra ✈️ (All-rounder) | Cooper Connolly ✈️ (All-rounder) |
| Blessing Muzarabani ✈️ (Bowler) | Ben Dwarshuis ✈️ (Bowler) |
| Saurabh Dubey (Bowler) | Praveen Dubey (Bowler) |
| Navdeep Saini (Bowler) | Vishal Nishad (Bowler) |
KKR vs PBKS – Predicted Playing 11
| Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) | Punjab Kings (PBKS) |
| Finn Allen ✈️ (WK) | Prabhsimran Singh (WK) |
| Sunil Narine ✈️ | Priyansh Arya |
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi | Cooper Connolly ✈️ |
| Ajinkya Rahane (C) | Shreyas Iyer (C) |
| Rinku Singh | Marcus Stoinis ✈️ |
| Cameron Green ✈️ | Shashank Singh |
| Ramandeep Singh | Nehal Wadhera |
| Anukul Roy | Marco Jansen ✈️ |
| Vaibhav Arora | Xavier Bartlett ✈️ |
| Kartik Tyagi | Arshdeep Singh |
| Blessing Muzarabani ✈️ | Yuzvendra Chahal |
| Impact Sub: Varun Chakaravarthy | Impact Sub: Vyshak Vijaykumar |