{"id":10133,"date":"2026-04-29T05:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/ipl-2026-why-is-shashank-singh-not-playing-against-rajasthan-royals-in-new-chandigarh-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:28:04","slug":"ipl-2026-why-is-shashank-singh-not-playing-against-rajasthan-royals-in-new-chandigarh-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/ipl-2026-why-is-shashank-singh-not-playing-against-rajasthan-royals-in-new-chandigarh-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Why is Shashank Singh not playing against Rajasthan Royals in New Chandigarh? | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130583139,imgsize-52604,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/shashank-singh.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: Why is Shashank Singh not playing against Rajasthan Royals in New Chandigarh?\" title=\"Shashank Singh. (AFP Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Shashank Singh. (AFP Photo)\">Shashank Singh. (AFP Photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shashank-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shashank Singh<\/a> was not picked for the Punjab Kings&#8217; clash against the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajasthan-royals\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, New Chandigarh. The two sides are facing off in Match 40 of the season in what is a key contest between two top-four teams.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>At the toss, Riyan Parag won the coin flip and opted to field first for Rajasthan Royals.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wLCOS vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"ap_Bf\">\n<div class=\"ZM4zO\">\n<p><i class=\"bo2C4\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Axar Patel shares big update on Mitchell Starc<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3><keyword id=\"19904097\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"Shreyas-Iyer\" source=\"keywords\" solralias.seotitle=\"shreyas-iyer\" solralias.msid=\"57752117\" solralias.title=\"shreyas iyer\">Shreyas Iyer<\/keyword> on Shashank\u2019s Absence<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer confirmed that Shashank Singh\u2019s absence was a forced change, without revealing the exact reason he said that,<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>\u201cWe would have loved to bowl first as well. The wicket was covered for the last few days because of the weather. All of us are proactive, irrespective of whether we are bowling first or second. <!-- -->We have one forced change, Suryansh comes in place of Shashank. Also, Lockie comes in place of Xavier.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3>Team Updates: PBKS vs RR   <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Rajasthan Royals Changes:<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Out: Shimron Hetmyer, Ravi Bishnoi<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>In: Dasun Shanaka, Yash Raj Punia<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Punjab Kings Changes:<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Out: Shashank Singh (injury), Xavier Bartlett<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>In: Suryansh Shedge, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/lockie-ferguson\/63719\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Lockie Ferguson<\/a><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3>Playing XIs for Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Punjab Kings (Playing XI):<\/span> Prabhsimran Singh(w), Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer(c), Cooper Connolly, Suryansh Shedge, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI):<\/span> 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<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3>Impact subs for Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals   <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"43\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Rajasthan Royals Impact subs:<\/span> Ravi Bishnoi, Ravi Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Shimron Hetmyer<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"46\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Punjab Kings Impact Subs:<\/span> Vishnu Vinod, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Xavier Bartlett, Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"49\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/ipl-2026-why-is-shashank-singh-not-playing-against-rajasthan-royals-in-new-chandigarh\/articleshow\/130582824.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shashank Singh. (AFP Photo) Shashank Singh was not picked for the Punjab Kings&#8217; clash against the Rajasthan Royals at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, New Chandigarh. The two sides are facing off in Match 40 of the season in what is a key contest between two top-four teams.At the toss, Riyan Parag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}