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Punjab Kings (Playing XI):
Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer(c), Josh Inglis(w), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI):
Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Rovman Powell, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Punjab Kings have won the toss and have opted to bat

21:38 Local Time, 16:08 GMT, 21:38 IST:
The playing square has been covered. The strong wind should blow this rain away hopefully. Both teams wouldn't want a point each. The groundstaff finding it difficult to control those big sheets due to the amount of wind around

21:42 Local Time, 16:12 GMT, 21:42 IST:
The wind so strong that few spectators are running for cover too. A fine game this is shaping up to be and everyone wait anxiously. Now the entire ground is covered. That's what the groundstaff in Sri Lanka too - the best in the world and it ensures we don't lose too much time once rain stops. As is the case - we have an hour's time left before we start losing overs. And the night is still young. So nothing to worry for now

22:09 Local Time, 16:39 GMT, 22:09 IST:
The rain seems to have stopped and a few KKR players can be seen on the fringes of the crowd doing some warm-ups and having some throwdowns. We should hopefully get a restart soon enough. It has to go beyond 10:30 pm for us to start losing overs.

22:41 Local Time, 17:11 GMT, 22:41 IST:
Still raining steadily here in Kolkata. And the water could have seeped underneath the ground as well since the covers were flying around in the beginning due to the heavy winds.