Punjab Kings (PBKS) is a franchise cricket team based in Mohali, Punjab, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Established in 2008 as the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), the franchise is jointly owned by Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta, and Karan Paul. The team plays its home matches at the PCA Stadium, Mohali. Since 2010, they also have been playing some of their home games at either Dharamsala or Indore. Apart from the 2014 season when they topped the league table and finished runners-up, the team has made only one other playoff appearance in 13 seasons.
Top Stories-2022
Punjab Kings‘ newly bought Wk opening batter Johny Bairstow will miss out the first week of the IPL 2022 due to his National duty against West Indies.
PBKS also going to miss the speedster Kagiso Rabada because of his matche against Bangladesh howver as soon as the series ends he will fly off for India right away.
The PBKS might be looking for some replacement for their players while they are busy doing National duty where Odean Smith might be replacing Kagiso Rabad for the first week of the League match for PBKS also Raj Bawa may get the chance while Johny Baistow busy against West Indies for the 3rd Test.
PBKS Retentions (2022)
Team Captain – Mayank Agarwal (Bought in 12 CR)
Mayank Agarwal | Retained in-12 crore | Batter
Arshdeep Singh | Retained in-4 crore | Bowler
Probable Playing XI
Full Squad with Stats
Mayank Agarwal (RHB)
T20 – M-164, R-3917, Ave-26.50
IPL – M-100, R-2131, Ave-23.40
Recent Form T20/IPL- (28R, 4R)
Shikhar Dhawan (LHB)
T20I – M-68, R-1759, Ave-27.90
IPL – M-192, R-5784, Ave-34.80
Recent Form T20/IPL- (36R)
Bhanuka Rajapaksa (LHB & RMF)
T20I – M-18, R-320, Ave-26.70, W-0
T20 – M-105, R-1912, Ave-23.60, W-27, Sr-14.20
Recent Form T20/IPL- (1R, R-33R, 23R, 25R, 14R)
Prerak Mankad (RHB & RMF)
T20 – M-34, R-763, Ave-33.20, W-20, Sr-21.30
IPL – N/A
Recent Form T20/IPL- N/A
Jitesh Sharma (RHB & w/k)
T20 – M-54, R-1329, Ave-28.30
IPL – N/A
Recent Form T20/IPL- (71R, 54R, 28R, DNB, 12R)
Prabhsimran Singh (RHB & w/k)
T20 – M-30, R-822, Ave-34.20
IPL – M-5, R-50, Ave-10
Recent Form T20/IPL- (40R, 18R)
Jonny Bairstow (RHB & w/k)
T20I – M-63, R-1190, Ave-26.40
IPL – M-28, R-1038, Ave-41.50
Recent Form T20/IPL- (8R, 16R, 0R, 1R, 13R)
Benny Howell ( RHB & RMF)
T20 – M-157, R-2122, Ave-21.87, W-163, Sr-18
IPL – N/A
Recent Form T20/IPL- (24R/0w), (8R/0w), (8R/0w), (3R/1w), (2R/1w)