Kings Xl Punjab

The Kings is owned by Preity Zinta, Karen Paul and Mohit Burman who brought the franchise for $76million. For the 2011 they will be coached by Michael Bevan and captained by Adam Gilchrist.

Performances

In their first season the Kings came second in the League, winning ten of their 14 matches, only to be knocked out in the semi-finals by the Chennai Super Kings. In 2009 they could only manage fifth place and thus failed to qualify and in 2010 they were the wooden-spooners finishing rock-bottom.

Squad

The Kings have released batsmans Yuvraj Singh and the Sri Lankan wicket keeper Kumar Sangakkara after their disappointing performances last year. They have secured the services of Australia's Adam Gilchrist who comes in as captain following his move from the Deccan Chargers. They also spent $1.4m on David Hussey, which made him the second most expensive foreign player. The Kings will have to do without Stuart Broad and Dimitri Mascarenhas due to injuries.

Bowlers
L Ablish
PP Chawla
SJ Srivastava
VS Malik
AM Nayar
Praveen Kumar
Bhargav Bhatt
Amit Yadav
Nathan Rimmington

Batsmen
SE Marsh
Mandeep Singh
P Dogra
DJ Hussey
Siddharth Chitnis

All rounders
Bipul Sharma
Ryan Harris
AD Mascarenhas
Paul Valthaty
Sunny Singh
Stuart Broad

Wicket keeper
AC Gilchrist - Captain
Dinesh Karthik
Nitin Saini