{"id":48229,"date":"2026-04-11T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48229"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:41:39","slug":"ipl-2026-pbks-vs-srh-live-punjab-kings-have-won-the-toss-and-have-opted-to-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-pbks-vs-srh-live-punjab-kings-have-won-the-toss-and-have-opted-to-field\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 PBKS vs SRH Live: Punjab Skipper Shreyas Iyer opts to bowl first, backs bowlers on a slow day pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Punjab Kings have won the toss and have opted to field<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A big cheer for home skipper Shreyas Iyer at the toss shows he has strong support from the home crowd.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Shreyas Iyer:<\/b>\u00a0We\u2019re going to bowl first. It\u2019s a day game. We want to get a knack of how the wicket is going to play. We need to back each others and all the youngsters. We are going with the same team. Priyansh comes in for Nehal.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ishan Kishan:<\/b>\u00a0We would have looked to bowl first. We got a young side, young bowlers in the side. Two changes. Salil Arora comes in for Livingstone and Praful Hinge makes his debut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pitch Report \u2013<\/strong> Day game pitch expected to be slightly slow, with scores around 160\u2013170 likely. Batters must create pace, while bowlers could stay in control as conditions get trickier.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><strong>Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI :<\/strong> Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (c), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Harshal Patel, Eshan Malinga<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><strong>Punjab Kings Playing XI :<\/strong> Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><u>Impact Player Substitutions:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Sunrisers Hyderabad:<\/b>\u00a0Kamindu Mendis, Jaydev Unadkat, Praful Hinge, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi<\/p>\n<p><b>Punjab Kings:<\/b>\u00a0Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Ravisingh Thakur, Harpreet Brar<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Kings have won the toss and have opted to field A big cheer for home skipper Shreyas Iyer at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":48230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48233,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48229\/revisions\/48233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}