IPL 2026 PBKS vs RR Playing 11: Shreyas Iyer-led Punjab Kings will square off against Riyan Parag-led Rajasthan Royals in the 40th match of the IPL 2026 on April 28 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur.

Punjab Kings have been in red-hot form, putting on a brilliant show in the ongoing season. Meanwhile, the Rajasthan Royals have a good outing in the ongoing season.

Shreyas Iyer-led Punjab have been unbeaten in the ongoing season with 6 wins out of 7 wins, while one game ended with no result.

With the Punjab Kings sitting in the top position, Rajasthan Royals secured 4th position in the IPL 2026 points table.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and opted to bowl. Speaking at the toss, RR captain Riyan Parag said, “We’ll be bowling first. Looks like a pretty good wicket, but there was a little cloud cover and little shower as well, so a little bit of moisture in the start, so we’re trying to extract that, get a few early wickets, and yeah, hopefully chase it down. Two changes. Hetmyer sits out, Shanaka comes in. Yash comes in for Bishnoi.”

Meanwhile, PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer said, “We would have loved to bowl first as well because I asked one of our team members, he told me that the wicket was basically covered for a couple of days due to bad weather, but other than that, I personally feel that any time you bat or bowl, it’s a great challenge and all of us are pretty proactive irrespective of the decision of toss.”

“We have one forced change. So, Suryansh (Shedge) comes in for Shashank and the other one is Lockie (Ferguson) come in for X (Xavier Bartlett),” concluded Iyer.

IPL 2026 PBKS vs RR Playing 11

Punjab Kings Playing 11: Prabhsimran Singh(w), Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer(c), Cooper Connolly, Suryansh Shedge, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Rajasthan Royals Playing 11: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Dasun Shanaka, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja