In the IPL 2026 match against Gujarat Titans (GT), Punjab Kings (PBKS) skipper Shreyas Iyer has won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh.

After winning the toss, PBKS's skipper Iyer said, "We're going to bowl first. I firmly believe that chasing gives you a fair idea about how to go about the target. And also, we played a couple of practice games and whatever total was scored, I think it was easily chased down. So, thinking that at the back of my mind, I'm taking that decision. (Message to the team coming into this season) Honestly speaking, we had a phenomenal last season, but it's over now. We start from ball one and the only message I have given them is just be yourselves, go out there and express to the best of your abilities and see to it that you're in the present moment, not thinking way beyond because T20 is such a format where you actually think way ahead of the game. So, the more time you give yourself, the better position you'll be in. (On not having a great record at this venue) I personally feel that we don't have to think much about what the result has been in the past. We just want to play the best brand of cricket we've been playing and the boys when they came in, all of them were in great mind space and it's important that we think about now and not think about what has gone past by. So, my only thinking is that we just got to stay in the present and see to it that we play the best game possible. (Overseas players) Cooper has come in, so he's a new addition to the team. Stoinis is there, Bartlett and Jansen".