IPL 2018: Journey of the Kings XI Punjab so far

5. 2012 – 6th

They continued with Gilchrist as the captain for another year, as the Aussie proved to be a quite dependable and worth appointment of the huge job in the previous edition. They again started the season with a couple of losses and then bounced back with two consecutive victories. The process followed by them in starting stages continued with them as well with them in the rest of the games where they failed to register consistent victories.

Matches Played – 16, W – 8, L – 8

Squad:  Adam Gilchrist (Captain/Keeper), Kyle Abbott, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Stuart Broad, Paul Valthaty, Sunny Singh, Love Ablish, Amit Yadav, Parvinder Awana, Azhar Mahmood, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Ben Cutting, Siddharth Chitnis, Paras Dogra, James Faulkner, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Harmeet Singh, Ryan Harris, David Hussey, Praveen Kumar, Vikramjeet Malik, Mandeep Singh, Shaun Marsh, David Miller, Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar, Shalabh Srivastava, Nitin Saini, Nathan Rimmington, Rajagopal Sathish.

TOP PERFORMER (Piyush Chawla)

Young Indian batsman Mandeep Singh was highest run-getter with 432 runs in the edition to lead the banter for his franchise. Piyush Chawla was once the best performer for the Kings with 16 wickets to his name in the fifth edition. In this edition, nine teams took part in the competition, but the Punjab franchise once again failed to reach the knockout stages and finished on the sixth spot on the points table.