Punjab Kings

Kings XI Punjab

File:Kings XI Punjab logo.svg
Personnel
Captain	Ravichandran Ashwin
Owner	KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited: Preity Zinta Ness Wadia Mohit Burman Karan Paul
Team information
City	Mohali (Chandigarh CR), Punjab, India
Colors
Founded	2008 (2008)
Home ground	PCA Stadium, Mohali (Capacity: 26,000)
Secondary home ground(s)	Holkar Stadium, Indore (Capacity : 30,000)
Official website	www.kxip.in
T20 kit
Kings XI Punjab in 2019

The Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) are a franchise cricket team based in Mohali (Chandigarh CR), Punjab, that plays in the Indian Premier League. Established in 2008, the franchise is jointly owned by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Mohit Burman and Karan Paul. The team plays its home matches at the PCA Stadium, Mohali. Since the 2010 IPL, they have been playing some of their home games at either Dharamsala or Indore.

The Kings XI Punjab's catchment areas are Kashmir, Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, also evident from the letter sequence "K J H P H" in the banner of the team's logo. Apart from the 2014 season when they topped the league table and finished runners-up, the team has made only one other playoffs appearance in 11 seasons.

Franchise history

In 2007, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) created the cricket tournament Indian Premier League based on the Twenty20 format of the game. Franchises for eight cities were made available in an auction held in Mumbai on 20 February 2008. The team representing Punjab was bought by the Dabur group's Mohit Burman (46%), the Wadia group's Ness Wadia (23%), Preity Zinta (23%), and Saptarshi Dey of the Dey & Dey Group (minor stake). The group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise. On 10 October 2010 the franchise agreements for the Kings XI Punjab and the Rajasthan Royals were terminated by the league, but the termination was repealed.

Expulsion from the IPL and return

Following the controversy surrounding the BCCI and Lalit Modi in 2010, the Indian Premier League announced that it had terminated the franchise contracts of Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals. The teams announced that they would take whatever legal action possible to remain in the Indian Premier League Initially the team tried to negotiate a solution with the league but when that couldn't be reached, they decided to file a case in Mumbai High Court accusing the IPL of getting rid of two teams so that when the bidding process starts for the 2012 IPL season the contract would be given to a more lucrative bidder

Kings XI Punjab was reinstated with involvement from the High Court.

Team history

2008

The tournament got off to a slow start for the Kings XI Punjab, with the team losing their first two games. However, 94 runs by Kumar Sangakkara helped them to take game 3. Despite the absence of Brett Lee and Simon Katich (who were committed to tour the West Indies with Australia), the team found its groove. Powered by their balanced bowling lineup and effective top order, the team won 9 of its next 10 matches, clinching a berth in the semi-final, where their run in the tournament came to an end with a comprehensive 9-wicket loss to the Chennai Super Kings.

Co-owner Preity Zinta often turns up for her team's matches.

Shaun Marsh was arguably KXIP's star player in the inaugural IPL. The opener from Western Australia was overlooked in both IPL player auctions and was signed by the franchise on 9 April. He finished the tournament the Orange Cap holder - the award for the player with the most runs across the competition - with an average of 68.44 and a strike rate of 139.68 in 11 innings. Marsh managed to hit 1 century and 5 half-centuries across the course of the tournament.

2009

Finishing as semi-finalists in 2008, Kings XI Punjab started with enormous ambitions to win the trophy. Their ambitions were supported by their new sponsors Emirates Airlines. With two available slots to fill the Punjab Kings made bids on Jerome Taylor and Yusuf Abdulla at the second IPL auction.

The team took a hit as most of their Australian cricketers were not available. The team lacked available pace bowlers after Jerome Taylor backed out at the last minute with an injury.

The team lost badly to Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders, however got back to form by beating the Royal Challengers, Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians. Then the team witnessed a roller-coaster ride in their next eight matches with 4 wins and 4 losses. The team's semi-final hopes were crushed after losing to the Chennai Super Kings in their last match.

2010

Kings XI Punjab lost six matches to Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Daredevils, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Deccan Chargers, Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians but managed to win a match against Chennai Super Kings when the scores were level and the match went to a Super Over. Kings XI Punjab were boosted by the return of Brett Lee against Kolkata, but he was not at his best. Shaun Marsh returned in the match against Mumbai Indians. In spite of his good performance, which included a half century, the team lost the match. They ended IPL3 in last position.

2011

IPL 2011 looked promising when they bought a full strength team with Michael Bevan as coach and Adam Gilchrist appointed as captain.

Kings XI Punjab missed out on the play offs by 2 points (or 1 victory). This meant they finished 5th in the points table.

2012

Kings XI Punjab finished in sixth place overall, winning eight matches out of sixteen.

2013

Kings XI Punjab failed to qualify for the play-offs but batsmen David Miller played one of the innings of the tournament in the 51st match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, as he smashed 101* off 38 deliveries and included 8 fours and 7 sixes. Coming in at 51-3 in the 8th over and chasing a target of 190, Miller rectified the game and led Punjab to a six wicket win with 2 overs remaining. Adam Gilchrist would retire at the end of the season.

2014

Australia's T20I captain George Bailey was leading the squad for the 7th season. Other buys featured the likes of Virender Sehwag, Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Johnson. Kings XI Punjab got the tournament off to a flyer, winning all of their first 5 games. The stand out player was Glenn Maxwell with his unorthodox and powerful hitting, scoring 95, 89 and 95 in his first 3 innings with a strike rate of over 200. There were many inning building innings from the veteran Indian batsman Virender Sehwag and young star Manan Vohra which made middle order batting easy and qualify to the playoffs. Due to a brilliant 122 run knock from Virender Sehwag against Chennai Super Kings in the semifinal, KXIP make their way to the final. In the final, they faced Kolkata Knight Riders where they batted first and set a good target of 199 owing to Wriddhiman Saha's brilliant 115* (which incidentally was the first ton in an IPL final). However, due to Manish Pandey's 94 off 50 balls and his teammates consistently high run rate, including Piyush Chawla's 13 off 5 balls, KKR were able to win the final by 3 wickets in the final over of the match.

2014 CLT20

Kings XI were placed in Group B along with Hobart Hurricanes (Australia); Barbados Tridents (West Indies); Cape Cobras (South Africa) and Northern Knights (New Zealand).

Kings XI's first match was in their home stadium PCA Stadium, Mohali where they beat Hobart Hurricanes by 5 wickets, overhauling Hobart's 144-6 in 17.4 overs. Thisara Perera was named Man Of The Match with 2-17 and 35*, Glenn Maxwell top scored in the game with 43. They also won the second match beating the Barbados Tridents by 4 wickets. They also won their third match of the competition against the Northern Knights and qualified for the semi finals. They continued to win their final group match against the Cape Cobras but were knocked out of the tournament at the semi-final stage with a disappointing defeat against their IPL rivals the Chennai Super Kings, who went on to win the tournament.

2015

George Bailey continued to lead the side during the 2015 season. Unfortunately, the team could not repeat the heroics of the previous season where they finished 2nd, winning just 3 of the 14 games and finishing 8th in the league. David Miller finished the season as top scorer with 357 runs and Anureet Singh finished the season as the top wicket taker with 15 wickets.

2016

David Miller and Murali Vijay captained the team in the first and second half of the 2016 season. The team had another terrible run in the league finishing 8th once again with only 4 wins under their belt. Murali Vijay was the top scorer with 453 runs and Sandeep Sharma was the top wicket taker with lots of wickets, 15 wickets to be exact.

2017

Virender Sehwag joined as head coach as the team looked to recover from two back-to-back last-place finishes in the league. He appointed Glenn Maxwell as the captain. Eoin Morgan, Darren Sammy and Hashim Amla joined the likes of David Miller in the team. The team missed out on a place in the play-offs by a last game defeat to Rising Pune SuperGiant and ended the season in 5th winning 7 out of their 14 games. Hashim Amla finished the season as top scorer with 420 runs including two centuries, and Sandeep Sharma was top wicket taker with 17 wickets.

2018

Kings XI Punjab squad for the 2018 IPL season included internationals such as Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuvraj Singh, KL Rahul, Aaron Finch and Chris Gayle. Ashwin was appointed as captain and Brad Hodge as coach.
On 19 April 2018, Chris Gayle scored a fine century as Kings XI Punjab beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 15 runs.

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Man of the Match	Scorecard
1	8 April 2018	Delhi Daredevils	Mohali	Won by 6 Wickets	K. L. Rahul 51 (16)	Scorecard
2	13 April 2018	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Bangalore	Lost by 4 Wickets	Umesh Yadav	Scorecard
3	15 April 2018	Chennai Super Kings	Mohali	Won by 4 runs	Chris Gayle 63 (33)	Scorecard
4	19 April 2018	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Mohali	Won by 15 runs	Chris Gayle 104* (63)	Scorecard
5	21 April 2018	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	Won by 9 wickets	K. L. Rahul 60 (27)	Scorecard
6	23 April 2018	Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	Won by 4 runs	Ankit Rajpoot	Scorecard
7	26 April 2018	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Hyderabad	Lost by 13 runs	Ankit Rajpoot	Scorecard
8	4 May 2018	Mumbai Indians	Indore	Lost by 6 wickets	Suryakumar Yadav	Scorecard
9	6 May 2018	Rajasthan Royals	Indore	Won by 6 wickets	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	Scorecard
10	8 May 2018	Rajasthan Royals	jaipur	Lost by 15 runs	Jos Buttler	Scorecard
11	12 May 2018	Kolkata Knight Riders	Indore	Lost by 31 runs	Sunil Narine	Scorecard
12	14 May 2018	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Indore	Lost by 10 wickets	Umesh Yadav	Scorecard
13	16 May 2018	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	Lost by 3 runs	Jasprit Bumrah	Scorecard
14	20 May 2018	Chennai Super Kings	Pune	Lost by 5 wickets	Lungi Ngidi	Scorecard

2019

Franchises confirmed the names of retained players for the 12th season of Indian Premier League. 2019 Indian Premiere League will play next year. KXIP Retained following players for next season; KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller and Ravichandran Ashwin. On the auction day(18 December 2018) KXIP snapped up new 13 players: Varun Chakaravarthy, Sam Curran, Mohammed Shami, Prabhsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Hardus Viljoen, Darshan Nalkande, Sarfaraz Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar, Murugan Ashwin.

In 2019, Punjab ended up on 6th position in the league table. KL Rahul was the highest run scorer for them with 593 runs in 14 mathces.

Seasons

Year	League table standing	Final standing
2008	2nd out of 8	Semifinalists (3rd)
2009	5th out of 8	5th
2010	8th out of 8	8th
2011	5th out of 10	5th
2012	6th out of 9	6th
2013	6th out of 9	6th
2014	1st out of 8	Runners-up
2015	8th out of 8	8th
2016	8th out of 8	8th
2017	5th out of 8	5th
2018	7th out of 8	7th
2019	6th out of 8	6th

Kings XI played in the now defunct Champions League Twenty20 once, in 2014 and finished as semi-finalists.

Administration and coaching staff

• Owners - Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta, Mohit Burman and Karan Paul
• Chief Executive Officer - Satish Menon
• Head Coach -
• Batting Coach -
• Bowling Coach -
• High Performance Coach - Prasanna Agoram
• Fielding Coach -
• Strength & Conditioning Coach - Nishant Thakur
• Team Analyst - Aashish Tuli
• Manager - Varoon Parmar
• Physiotherapist – Brett Harrop
• Masseur - Naresh Kumar

Head coaches

• Tom Moody- 2008–2010
• Michael Bevan - 2011
• Adam Gilchrist - 2012
• Darren Lehmann - 2013
• Sanjay Bangar - 2014–2016
• Virender Sehwag - 2017
• Brad Hodge - 2018
• Mike Hesson - 2019

Captains

Kings XI Punjab captains

No.	Name	Nationality	First	Last	Mat	Won	Lost	Tie	Win%
1	Yuvraj Singh		2008	2009	29	17	12	0	58.62
2	Kumar Sangakkara		2010	2010	13	3	9	1	26.92
3	Mahela Jayawardene		2010	2010	1	0	1	0	0.00
4	Adam Gilchrist		2011	2013	34	17	17	0	50.00
5	David Hussey		2012	2013	12	6	6	0	50.00
6	George Bailey		2014	2015	35	18	17	0	51.42
7	Virender Sehwag		2015	2015	1	0	0	1	50.00
8	David Miller		2016	2016	6	1	5	0	16.66
9	Murali Vijay		2016	2016	8	3	5	0	37.50
10	Glenn Maxwell		2017	2017	14	7	7	0	50.00
11	Ravichandran Ashwin		2018	Present	27	11	16	0	40.74
Total					180	83	95	2	46.11

Sponsors and partners

In 2015, the official title sponsor of the Kings XI were Tata Motors Prima while they had on board as many as 25 sponsors, the highest for any team in the IPL. Their principal sponsors are HTC, Royal Stag, ACC Limited and DCB Bank while Britannia, BIG FM 92.7, Mountain Dew, Kingfisher Premium, Bookmyshow, Punjab Kesari, The Tribune, Blippar, Smile Foundation, Trip Factory and AIDS Healthcare Foundation function as their partners.

Year	Kit Manufacturers	Shirt Sponsor (Front)	Shirt Sponsor (Back)	Chest Branding
2008	Reebok	Spice	Kotak	Provogue
2009		Fly Emirates	7 Up Nimbooz	Gulf Oil
2010			Mountain Dew
2011			Pearls	Linc Pens
2012	TK Sports	Videocon d2h	Lux Cozi	U.S. Polo Assn.
2013	TYKA Sports	NVD Solar		NVD Solar
2014		Tata Motors Prima	Arise Mobiles	Trip Factory
2015			Manforce	HTC
2016			Idea	Valvoline
2017		Hero Cycles		Johnson
2018	T10 Sports	Kent RO Systems	Jio	Lotus Herbals [1]
2019		Aaj Tak	Bageshree Lake City	Jio

Statistics

See also: List of Kings XI Punjab records

Performance summary

Year	Total	Wins	Losses	No result	% win
2008	15	10	5	0	66.66%
2009	14	7	7	0	50.00%
2010	14	4	10	0	28.57%
2011	14	7	7	0	50.00%
2012	16	8	8	0	50.00%
2013	16	8	8	0	50.00%
2014	17	12	5	0	70.58%
2014 - CL t20	5	4	1	0	80.00%
2015	14	3	11	0	21.43%
2016	14	4	10	0	28. 57%
2017	14	7	7	0	50.00℅
2018	14	6	8	0	42.85℅
2019	14	6	8	0	42.85℅
Total	181	86	95	0	47.51%

Last updated: 8 May 2019

Opposition in Indian Premier League

Teams	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied+Win	No result	% win
Chennai Super Kings	20	7	12	1	0	37.50%
Deccan Chargers	10	7	3	0	0	70.00℅
Delhi Daredevils	24	14	10	0	0	58.33℅
Gujarat Lions	4	2	2	0	0	50%
Kochi Tuskers Kerala	1	1	0	0	0	100%
Kolkata Knight Riders	24	8	16	0	0	33.33%
Mumbai Indians	24	11	13	0	0	45.30%
Pune Warriors India	6	3	3	0	0	50.00%
Rajasthan Royals	19	8	10	1	0	44.83%
Rising Pune Supergiant	4	2	2	0	0	50%
Royal Challengers Bangalore	24	12	12	0	0	50.00%
Sunrisers Hyderabad	14	4	10	0	0	28.57℅
Total	162	74	86	2	0	45.67

Teams now defunct

Last updated: 30 April 2019

Full Table on Cricinfo

Opposition in cl20 League

Teams	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	% win
Hobart Hurricanes	1	1	0	0	0	100.00%
Barbados Tridents	1	1	0	0	0	100.00%
Cape Cobras	1	1	0	0	0	100.00%
Northern Knights	1	1	0	0	0	100.00%
Chennai Super Kings	1	0	1	0	0	00.00%

Last updated: 14 December 2018

External links

• Official King's XI Punjab Site