Perennial underachievers in the IPL, the Kings XI Punjab were a determined lot in the tournament, motivated to erase their previous failings and start off on a fresh note. It started by retaining only 🌼one player, Axar Patel, and ended with the prized catch of Chris Gayle in the final leg of the auction.
Between th𒐪ose two, the Punjab side built a solid team that is likely to giওve the others a run for their money.
Yuvraj Singh, their icon player in 2008 and one of their biggest names in the first few years of the tournament, made an emotional💯 return to the side.
Using RTM cards, KXIP owner Preity Zinta brought back aggressive middle-order batsman David Miller, fast bowler Mohit Sharma and all-ro𒁃under Marcus Stoinis.
List of players bought by the KXIP at the IPL 2018 auction:
- Ravichandran Ashwin (7.6 Cr)
- Yuvraj Singh (2 Cr)
- Karun Nair (5.6 Cr)
- KL Rahul (11 Cr)
- David Miller (3 Cr)
- Aaron Finch (6.2 Cr)
- Marcus Stoinis (6.2 Cr)
- Mayank Agarwal (1 Cr)
- Ankit Rajpoot (3 Cr)
- Manoj Tiwary (1 Cr)
- Mohit Sharma (2.4 Cr)
- Mujeeb Zadran (4 Cr)
- Barinder Sran (2.2 Cr)
- Andrew Tye (7.2 Cr)
- Akshdeep Nath (1 Cr)
- Ben Dwarshius (1.4 Cr)
- Pardeep Sahu (20L)
- Mayank Dagar (20L)
- Chris Gayle (2 Cr)
- Manzoor Dar (20L)
The Punjab franchise has 21 players in total, among w💖hich 7 are o🥀verseas.
