Punjab Kings will miss Dawid Malan and Chris Jordan as they will be unavailable in the second half of IPL 2021. The side along with Royal Challengers Bangalore have been the perennial underachievers in the IPL. batting the 2014 season every other season for them has been not one to remember. Meanwhile, while the absence of Malan might not hurt them much, Jordan’s death bowling skills will be something that they will miss.
Punjab Kings won three games and lost as many as five in the first half of IPL 2021. In the absence of the England players, this is what their best XI might look like.
IPL 2021 2nd Phase: Strongest Playing XI Of Punjab Kings (PBKS) Without English Players
Chris Gayle
Chris Gayle will be one of the foreign players in the batting line-up. His opening partnership with Rahul has been a successful one in the past and with the side needing to win games in the second half, Gayle might be restored to opening the batting long with skipper KL Rahul.