Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 21st Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

TOSS -Kolkata Knight Riders opt to bowl. Morgan calls it right and decides to insert Punjab Kings in. He also names an unchanged XI. Only one for KL Rahul's side as Chris Jordan replaces Fabian Allen.

Playing XI:

Punjab Kings: KL Rahul(w/c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Shahrukh Khan, Chris Jordan, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh

Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy

How's the pitch?"There is a lovely even covering of grass on this pitch and that suggests that batsmen would be licking their lips. Not a big ground and there should be value for runs. The captain winning the toss would want to chase," reckon Simon Doull and Kevin Pietersen.

THE FOUR SEQUENCE - RCB's four-match winning streak ended yesterday, while CSK extended their winning run to four and KKR have lost four on the bounce. Will Morgan and Co. be able to break the rut?

BUILD UP - Hello and welcome to match 21 of the Indian Premier League 2021. We are one third of the way into the tournament and it is time for a change in scenery. Ahmedabad will play host for the first time this season as they welcome Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. Two teams that find themselves in the bottom half of the points table and in desperate need of two points to keep them close to the top four.

Ahmedabad hosted the recently concluded T20I series between India and England. In all the five games the surface behaved differently and the captains for today's game - Morgan and KL Rahul - had first hand experience of playing there. So what can we expect? Here's Gokul Gopal with the preview for the game.