IPL: Priyansh Arya not in XI as Punjab Kings bowl first against Gujarat Titans

NEW DELHI: unjab Kings (PBKS) skipper Shreyas Iyer won the flip and elected to tract archetypal against Gujarat Titans (GT) successful their Indian Premier League (IPL) run opener astatine New Chandigarh successful Punjab connected Tuesday.For the Punjab Kings, Priyansh Arya did not marque it to the starting XI. However, the prima batted was named successful the interaction subs database and is expected to travel to bat successful the 2nd innings.Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, and Suryansh Shedge were besides named successful the interaction substitutes players database of Punjab.For the Gujarat Titans, India pacer Prasidh Krishna was not named successful the starting XI, but was successful the team's interaction players list. Gujarat Titans Impact subs: Prasidh Krishna, Jason Holder, Jayant Yadav, Manav Suthar, Kumar Kushagra.Speaking during the toss, PBKS skipper Iyer said, "We are going to vessel first. We had a phenomenal past season. We person to enactment successful the present. We did not person to deliberation astir the past. We request to play our champion marque of cricket. Cooper Connolly, is in. (Marcus) Stoinis, (Xavier) Bartlett and Marco Jansen (other overseas players).

Also, GT skipper Gill said that 2 players, New Zealand batter Glenn Phillips and Rajasthan pacer Ashok Sharma volition beryllium making their debuts for the franchise and revealed the team's overseas line-up arsenic well."The wicket looks beauteous good. Rain connected and disconnected implicit the past 2 days. Looks similar a bully wicket to bat on. Last year, we had a beauteous bully season. Two debutants - Glenn and Ashok Sharma. We person got Jos (Buttler), Glenn, Rashid (Khan) and (Kagiso) Rabada," helium said.Having won the rubric successful their debut play successful 2022, Gujarat Titans person remained 1 of the astir accordant sides, finishing 3rd past twelvemonth earlier losing to Mumbai Indians successful the Eliminator.They look 1 of the astir settled units again, retaining 20 players. The opening brace of Gill and Sai Sudharsan -- past season's apical scorer with 759 runs -- remains their biggest strength.Sudharsan is returning aft a rib fracture but was successful good interaction successful home cricket, including an unbeaten 101 and aggregate fifties earlier the injury.GT besides person breathtaking backup options similar wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Kushagra, who impressed successful home cricket with a onslaught complaint of implicit 160 and an mean supra 60 successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He would connection flexibility if the mediate bid struggles.For Punjab Kings, overmuch volition again beryllium connected skipper Shreyas, a proven IPL person who has present taken 3 antithetic teams to the last (Delhi Capitals successful 2020, KKR successful their 2024 triumph and PBKS past season).Playing XIGujarat Titans (Playing XI): Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, M Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Ashok Sharma, Mohammed SirajPBKS (bowling first): Prabhsimran Singh, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.