Entries for the ‘Kings XI Punjab’ Category
The owners of the Kings XI Punjab franchise include Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur). The group paid $76 million to acquire the franchise.
The 2008 season started on a disatrous note for the Kings XI team as it lost its opening matches two matches, but then it recovered lost ground and went on to reach the semi-finals, where it was defeated by eventual runners-up Chennai Super Kings.
Captain Yuvraj Singh, Indian players Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth and Piyush Chawla, Australian pace bowler Brett Lee, and the Sri Lankan pair of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, are the stars in the Kings XI Punjab line-up. However, the find of the inaugural edition of the IPL — Shaun Marsh — played for the Mohali-based team, and finished as the highest run scorer in the tournament.
Two teams – Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils – have dominated the tournament thus far, while the two that take on each other in Durban on Wednesday have both emerged strong contenders. Punjab Kings XI overcame their rain-affected defeats in their first two games to win the next two quite comfortably, marking a trend similar [...]
It hasn’t been the start both teams would have hoped for, already having lost two matches each. Bangalore Royal Challengers’ biggest problem has been their top-order batting: they have lost a wicket in the first over in every match, and end-of-Powerplay scores of 29 for 3, 46 for 2, and 31 for 2 aren’t the [...]
Brett Lee has flown to South Africa in a bid to advance his comeback from ankle surgery, and will seek to train with the touring Australian one-day side in the coming days. Lee’s trip across the Indian Ocean comes amid speculation he could be in the frame for a surprise recall to the Australian squad [...]
Jerome Taylor, the West Indies fast bowler who was picked up by Kings XI Punjab in this year’s auction, has withdrawn from the IPL due to an injury. Taylor sustained the injury from a motor vehicle accident.
He has been replaced by the 26-year-old South African left-arm fast bowler Yusuf Abdulla, who made an impressive Twenty20 [...]
