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Kings XI Punjab
Kings XI Punjab is an Indian Premier League franchise which
represent Punjab, India. KXIP is owned by Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta, Karan
Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman of Dabur.Kings XI Punjab's
franchise was acquired by $76
million.Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist is captain for KXIp while Darren
Lehmann is head coach for Kings XI Punjab. Bollywood singer Daler Mehndi is the
brand ambassador for Kings Xi Punjab. PCA Stadium, Mohali is the home ground
for Kings XI Punjab.In the 2008 IPL KXIP won its 10 matches out of 15 and
qualified for semi-finals but didnot make it to the finals.In opening season of
IPL Shaun Marsh was the highest run scorer with an average of 68.44 and a
strike rate of 139.68 in 11 innings. His innings included 1 century and 5
half-centuries.
From 2009 to 2011
they failed to make any promonent place in the IPL points table. In last season
of IPL 2012 Kxip finished 6th out of 9 teams.KXIP's successes in 2012 included
the opening batting of Mandeep Singh with Nitin Saini the bowling of Parvinder
Awana and all-round displays from Azhar Mahmood. KXIP started IPL 2013 with
their opening match against Pune Warriors India which they won by 8 wickets but
lost their next match to M.S. Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings. David Hussey,Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh will be their
frontline batsmen for KXIP. Mandeep Singh, the star of the last season for
Kings XI Punjab is also expected to agian perform like previous season of IPL.
Then you have the other Indian youngsters such as Nitin Saini, Paul Valthaty
and Gurkeerat Singh Mann.Adam Gilchrist is back for IPL 2013.As after the last
season of Indian Premier League he took retirement from International Cricket
but revied his desicion and is back again in field.Besides Adam Gilchrist,
names like Azhar Mahmood , Dimitri Mascarenhas , David Hussey and Ryan Harris
form the core of the team. The return of Luke Pomersbach strengthens the
batting line of KIngs XI Punjab. Azhar Mahmood is the only Pakistani player in
IPL. Kings XI Punjab Squad consist of AC Gilchrist (Captain), P Awana, Azhar
Mahmood, BA Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, PP Chawla, SD Chitnis, A Choudhary, MS Gony,
Gurkeerat Singh, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, DJ Hussey, P Kumar, Mandeep Singh,
SE Marsh, AD Mascarenhas, DA Miller, LA Pomersbach, N Saini, Sandeep Sharma , R
Sathish, Sunny Singh, PC Valthaty, M Vohra.
Pune Warriors
This franchise of cricket team playing under IPL is
representing the Indian city Pune. The franchise is one of the two newly added
franchises of the IPL that was founded in 2010 and played 2011 matches under
IPL as their first season. Subrata Roy of Sahara Group won the bid from
Videocon Group and purchased the franchise for 170.2 million Indian rupees.
Angelo Mathews is the team captain and Allan Donald is the
head coach of the team. Allan Donald is former South African Pacer and
currently bowling coach of South Africa. As the name of the team Warriors so
it’s the logo has spear wielding warrior riding a stallion. Initially the name
of the franchise was Sahara Pune Warriors later it changed to Pune Warriors
India. They signed with Adidas as their official sponsor for the coming
seasons. While TVS Motors were their proper brand sponsor. The other sponsors
included Pepsi, Playup, Royal Challenge, Amity University, Valvoline and
Finolex. The color assigned to the team is Turquoise blue and silver.
For their first season in 2011 Pune Warriors signed top
players including Yuvraj Singh, Robbin Uthappa, Jesse Ryder, Angelo Mathews,
Murali Kartik, Graeme Smith, Ashish Nehra and also have signed number of top
uncapped players of Indian different clubs and franchises that is Abhishek
Jhunjhunwala, Mohnish Mishra, Kamran Khan and Mithun Minhas. The team played a
successful season of IPL 2011 under the captaincy of Yuvraj Singh.
At the start of the fifth season of IPL in 2012 Sahara
decided to withdraw their Pune Warriors from season 2012 just hour before when
the auction was about to start. But later Subrata Roy said that Saurav Ganguly
will be asked for reconcialliation, later he announced that Yuvraj Singh would
be replaced. The deadlocks were still between BCCI and Sahara group. But later
on February 2012, the discussion ended up with a positive result and they
announced that Pune Warriors will play the season 2012 of IPL.
It was decided by disbanding of Kochi Tuskers Kerala that
each team will play with remaining eight teams twice, once at home ground and
once at away so the each team will play 16 total matches. The first match was
considered as a battle between two friends Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar
from the team Mumbai Indians. Pune warriors won the match by 29 runs. PW played
total 16 matches but won only 4 and lost 12 and retained their position at 9
out of 9 teams.
The players currently playing with PW are Robin Uthappa,
Yuvraj Singh, Angelo Mathews, Kane Richarson, Ajantha Mendis, Abhishek Nayar,
Ashok Dinda, Micheal Clarke, Marlon Samuels, Luke Wright, Wayne Parnell, Rahul
Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
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