Kings XI Punjab is
one of the nine teams of Indian Premier League which was founded in 2008. It is
a cricket team based in Mohali, Punjab, wherein the team plays its home matches at PCA Stadium Mohali. Later after IPL
2010, there Home ground also included Dharmashala. Presently the team is captained
and coached both by a former Australian Wicket keeper and Batsman Adam
Gilchrist. The team is owned by Ness Wadia, Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta, The
Oberoi group, Karan Paul and Mohit Burman.
The team had a very slow start in the inaugural year of IPL
thus couldn't secure a good position for itself. Up till now Kings XI Punjab doesn't have any wins in their hands neither in Indian Premier League nor in Champions
League Twenty20. Moreover in the IPL 2010 season they ended at the last position
which was not so good record for the team as well as the owners. Though the
team won many individual matches in the IPL but didn't won the tournament even
once till now.
The team has released its players for IPL 2013 with the same
owners .Captaincy in IPL 6 will be done by Adam Gilchrist, but he has been
replaced from the position of coach by Darren Lehmann.
Kings XI Punjab as the winners of IPL:
There has been none of the IPL wins in the hands of Kings XI
Punjab till now, although it has a total
of 50% win percentage as per individual matches.
Players of the team
Paul Valthaty,Mandeep Singh, Shaun Marsh, David Miller, Sunny
Singh, Gurkeerat Singh, David Hussey, Siddharth Chitnis, Manan Vohra, Bipul
Sharma, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Rajagopal Sathish, Azhar Mahmood, Adam Gilchrist, Nitin
Saini, Harmeet Singh, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla, Bhargav Bhatt, Parvinder
Awana, Ryan Harris
Two new players have been introduced in the team by Kings XI
Punjab in the IPL 2013 namely Manpreet Gony
and Luke Pomersbach to try out its luck for chance of winning IPL 6.
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