Pbks vs rcb Qualifier-1: The first qualifier match of IPL 2025 will be played today at Mullanpur Cricket Stadium in Mohali. Punjab Kings, captained by Shreyas Iyer, will face Royal Challengers Bangalore. Both teams are playing for the first edition, but are still looking for their first title. Today one of these teams will enter the final. Here we are telling you about the 5 players of Punjab who will create the biggest difficulty for RCB in today’s match, if they go, then RCB is sure to lose!

Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy is behind the success of Punjab Kings in IPL 2025, but a mixture of young and experienced players in the team is also fantastic with him. Now foreign players in the team have also come in form.

Priyansh Arya

Left -handed batsman Priyansh Arya comes into attacking mode from the first ball itself. After a brilliant performance in the Delhi Premier League, he was bought by Punjab, he lived up to the expectations. He has become like a time for the bowlers, this young batsman has won many matches to Punjab in the season. He has scored 424 runs in 14 matches of the league stage, including a record century and 2 half -centuries. In the last match against Mumbai, he scored 62 runs in 35 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 9 fours.

Josh English also returned to form

Another good thing for Punjab Kings is that their foreign players have returned to form. Josh English was seen struggling initially but now he has returned to form. He plays fast bowlers well, he also plays brilliantly against spinners. In IPL 2025, he scored 197 runs in 8 matches, in the last match he scored a match of 73 runs against Mumbai Indians. In this innings played in 42 balls, he hit 3 sixes and 9 fours.

Shreyas Iyer’s role is important

While the opening pair of Punjab on one side is fantastic, if they fail, then the middle order captain Shreyas Iyer is seen standing like a wall. He has scored 514 runs in 14 matches, including 5 half -centuries. In the last match, he scored an unbeaten 26 in 16 balls.

Marcus Stoinis is a dangerous batsman

Stoinis’s bat was not going on in the beginning, he has scored 126 runs in 8 innings of IPL 2025. But in his last innings, he scored 44 runs in 16 balls against Delhi. His death is going to be an important role in the overs. He is considered a big stage player and can also bowl. If their bat goes in the death overs, then the team will score 20 to 30 runs, they can be very dangerous.

Arshdeep Singh

Arshdeep Singh is a dangerous bowler, he is known for the exact yorker balls but this season he has also achieved success on the second line balls. He has taken 18 wickets in 13 innings this season. He is involved in the race for the purple cap. RCB batsmen will have to be careful with Arshdeep, because they are expert in taking wickets in the beginning and if this happens, there will be pressure on RCB.

Punjab Kings IPL 2025: The IPL 2025 has resumed, but the concern of some teams has increased. Especially the trouble of those teams has increased, which have either reached the playoffs or are close to reaching. This is because many foreign players have been questioned. Meanwhile, good news has come for Punjab Kings because 3 foreign players are going to join the Punjab team for the next match.

According to a report by ESPN Cricinfo, Marcus Stoinis, Josh English, Aaron Hardy and Kyle Zamison, these four players are coming to India on Tuesday. All these players can play in the match against Delhi Capitals on 24 May. This news has come at a time when Punjab has qualified for Kings Playoffs, as well as it has full chance to make it to the qualifier 1 directly.

Let us know that the performance of Marcus Stoinis and Josh English has not been good in matches played yet. At the same time, Aaron Hardy, sold for 1.25 crores in the auction, has not got an opportunity to play a single match in the season yet. Kyle Zamison has got a place in the squad of Punjab, replacing the injured Lockie Furganus. It is also a good thing for Punjab Kings that Marco Jansen, who has taken 13 wickets in the season so far, has also joined the team.

Place in playoff after 11 years

In IPL 2025, it appears as if the investment of Punjab Kings is in the right place. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Punjab has so far registered 8 wins in 12 matches. Shreyas is the same player, under whose captaincy Delhi Capitals played the final of IPL 2020. Shreyas Iyer has now gone out to change the fate of Punjab Kings, who have made this team see the playoffs after 11 years. Punjab last made a place in the playoffs in the year 2014.

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IPL 2025 Reschedule: The match was being played between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals at Dharamshala on 8 May but then it was decided to stop the match due to security reasons, all the players were immediately sent back to their hotel and then all were brought to Delhi by a special train. After this, the tournament was postponed for a week before the match on May 9 (LSG Vs RCB), after which all the players were returning to their homes. Punjab coach Ricky Ponting also climbed on the plane, but then came back.

Under Ricky Ponting’s coaching and Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy, Punjab Kings are a strong contender to win their first title this time, in the match which was stopped, the team scored 122 runs in 10.1 overs, if the team wins, it would have become the first team to reach the IPL 2025 playoff. He has currently won 7 out of 11 matches, he is at number three in the table. The coaches of Punjab Kings were also very nervous when the IPL match was stopped amidst India Pakistan tension, although when they decided to stop, they stopped all their players.

Ponting made a thickweight!

He sat on the plane to return home after postponing the IPL. According to media reports, but at the last moment he got down from the plane, he stayed in Delhi and he also convinced other foreign players to stop. Regarding this, CEO Satish Menon of PBKS said, “It shows the personality of ponting. Only he could do it.”

After the cancellation of the IPL, there was fear in foreign players, the players of Punjab and Delhi returned to Delhi by train. The group also had Australian players like Marcus Stoinis, Aaron Hardy, Josh England and Xavier Bartlet. A media report quoted a team of the team as saying, “Foreign players are not habit of such a situation. So it was natural to be worried. Under Stoinis, they all wanted to leave India as soon as possible. It was natural to happen. But Ponting convinced them to stay here after ceasefire. Which is fantastic.”

There is only Marco Yansene of South Africa who has gone from India who has gone from India, although the good thing is that he has not returned to his country but is in Dubai. That is, he can return to India in a few hours.

When will IPL 2025 start back?

The IPL season 18 can start again on 16 May. The BCCI had also held a meeting on this on Sunday but no final decision could be taken. Today there will be a DGMO level meeting between India and Pakistan. After getting permission from the Government of India, the BCCI can announce an official schedule.