IPL Stay Rating 2026, Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Stay Cricket Rating Updates: An unbeaten Punjab Kings will look to proceed their successful streak once they face Ishan Kishan’s Sunrisers Hyderabad within the Indian Premier League 2026 Match No. 17 on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur (New Chandigarh) on Saturday, the primary recreation of the double-header.
PBKS started their season with a cushty win over Gujarat Titans at residence earlier than thrashing Chennai Tremendous Kings at Chepauk. Their tie in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens resulted in a no-result (NR) after it was washed out attributable to rain. With 5 factors from three video games, PBKS are in second place, behind Rajasthan Royals.
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Alternatively, SRH discover themselves in sixth place with one win in three video games. SRH had been handed a loss by Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the season opener, however then they bounced again to beat KKR earlier than falling to Lucknow Tremendous Giants.
SRH dominate the head-to-head report within the IPL, having overwhelmed PBKS 17 instances whereas dropping solely 7 video games out of the 24 matches they’ve performed in opposition to one another.
PBKS vs SRH IPL 2026 Squads
Punjab Kings: Prabhsimran Singh (w), Shreyas Iyer (c), Cooper Connolly, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Priyansh Arya, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Praveen Dubey, Harpreet Brar, Ben Dwarshuis, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Thakur, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mitchell Owen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash, Vishal Nishad.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (c/wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingstone, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Salil Arora, David Payne, Shivam Mavi, Zeeshan Ansari, Kamindu Mendis, Brydon Carse, Smaran Ravichandran, Sakib Hussain, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar.
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With strike fee of 138, Punjab Kings opener Prabhsimran goals massive: ‘Scoring 250 runs will not be that tough anymore’
Having first been picked by the Punjab franchise in 2019, Singh has thus far amassed a complete of 1776 runs in 71 matches in IPL at a strike fee of 149.37.
Along with his tally of 549 runs in 17 matches in final 12 months’s Indian Premier League, Punjab Kings opener Prabhsimran Singh had a prolific season within the match final season. This IPL season, the Patiala cricketer has thus far scored a complete of 80 runs in three matches throughout Punjab King’s marketing campaign which has seen the staff rating two wins with one match being washed out attributable to rain. With scores near 200 or extra coming in T20 format typically these days, the opener has been enjoying attacking recreation along with his strike fee this season being 137.93 and 160.53 in final 12 months’s IPL.
When requested concerning the method to play fearless cricket with the T20 format calls for within the current state of affairs, Singh mentioned, “Completely, the sport has turn out to be so quick now. Earlier, targets of 170-180 runs used to get defended. Such targets additionally get defended at current but when we take a look at the share in cricket, it has moved to 200-plus. And to attain 200-plus runs, I really feel one has to come back in and play with an attacking method proper from the facility play. One additionally will get readability from the staff administration, coach to go all out and play freely as one sees clearly. If you need to hit, then you need to go for it. Clearly, cricket has undoubtedly turn out to be quicker, so scoring 250 runs will not be that tough anymore,” mentioned Singh, replying to a query by The Indian Categorical in a media roundtable organised by Punjab Kings. (READ MORE)