The Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Chandigarh, will host the game on Tuesday.
One guy to keep an eye on is Sunil Narine, a talismanic all-rounder who has been playing well lately.
Second-most wickets against PBKS
With 34 wickets from 25 games, Narine is the second-highest wicket-taker against PBKS in the IPL, according to ESPNcricinfo. He can displace Umesh Yadav (35 scalps) at the top in the upcoming encounter.
Additionally, the spinner outperforms the Mohali-based franchise with an incredible economy rate of 7.02. His only IPL five-wicket haul (5/19) also came against Punjab during IPL 2012. He even took a hat-trick in that game.
Face-off
Key PBKS batters versus the numbers Shreyas Iyer, the PBKS captain, has been a decent opponent for Narine, who has only lost one of his eight IPL innings and allowed 42 runs in 35 balls. In the meantime, in 19 T20 innings, the mysterious spinner has trapped the dangerous Glenn Maxwell five times. In this battle, the batter only has a pathetic strike rate of 106.59. In 10 T20 matches, he has also dismissed Marcus Stoinis twice. The latter strike rate at just 92.68 against Narine.
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Two fifties with the bat
PBKS has also been troubled by Narine’s willow. He has smashed 251 runs against them at a brilliant strike rate of 183.21. This includes a couple of fifties with his best score being 75 off 36 balls in 2017.
Career
The following are his career stats: At 25.46 (ER: 6.75), Narine has taken 185 wickets in 182 IPL matches. He is currently the joint-4th-highest wicket-taker in the IPL. The southpaw has also scored 1,659 runs at a strike rate of 167.41 (50s: 7, 100: 1)
Narine has won 28 matches this season and has five scalps. 7.77 is his economy rate. 125 runs are also included in his total (SR: 189.39).