Kings XI Punjab

Kings XI Punjab is a cricket team in the Indian Premier League, based in Mohali. Iconic batsman of Indian cricket team, Yuvaraj Singh, is the captain of Kings XI Punjab while Tom Moody, the former Australian all rounder is the coach.

The owner of Kings XI Punjab is a group which includes bollywood actress Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur).The group acquired the franchise rights for $76 millions.

The team colors are light grey and red while the logo is a light grey colored shield with two lion heads made in red and team's name written in bold red font. While famous Indian pop star Daler Mehndi is the brand ambassador, Neil Maxwell is the team's CEO.

Kings XI Punjab In 2008 IPL Season
Kings XI Punjab did not have a great start in the inaugural 2008 season of IPL, losing its opening two matches. The team also had to part with their Australian players - Brett Lee and Simon Katich - who had prior commitments to tour the West Indies with Australian cricket team. However, soon they recovered their lost ground and won nine out of ten matches that followed. The team entered the semi-finals where they lost to Chennai Super Kings by 9 wickets.

Kings XI Punjab's Current Squad
Shaun Marsh, the opener from Western Australia is said to be the biggest find of the tournament that Kings XI Punjab unearthed. He was looked over in both IPL player auctions and was later signed by Kings XI Punjab on 9 April 2008. What followed is well known to all. Shaun Marsh finished the tournament as the highest run scorer with an average of 68.44 and a strike rate of 139.68 in 11 innings. He made 1 century and 5 half-centuries.

1. Yuvraj Singh
2. Mahela Jayawardene
3. Brett Lee
4. James Hopes
5. Shaun Marsh
6. Kumar Sangakkara
7. Burt Cockley
8. Ravi Bopara
9. Jerome Taylor
10. Luke Pomersbach
11. Simon Katich
12. Irfan Pathan
13. Sreesanth
14. Ramesh Powar
15. V.R.V. Singh
16. Sahil Kukreja
17. Yash Gandhi
18. P. Chawla
19. Karan Goel
20. Uday Kaul
21. Wilkin Mota
22. Tanmay Srivastava
23. Sunny Sohal
24. Ajitesh Argal

Support Staff:
1. Tom Moody - Coach
2.Trevor Penney - Assistant Coach
3. Patrick Farhart - Physio
4. Andrew Ware - Analyst