Who will stop Kings XI Punjab in IPL7

Kings Xi team so far has no so exciting outings in IPL history but they have made a very solid start in IPL this year. They have won all the first three matches they played so far  by chasing 200+ against CSK, 190+ against Rajasthan Royals and then defeating Sunrisers Hyderadbad easily yesterday.

Everyone is talking about how solid batting line Punjab have got and who will stop the Kings Xi team this year. The answer is simple anyone who can stop the big hitter and holder of the orange cap Glenn Maxwell can win the game against Kings XI easily. Thus other teams who will play Kings XI in the remaining part of the tournament need to do the home work on how to handle the brutal attack of Maxwell. Apart from Maxwell, David Miller is another threat for the teams. Punjab team on the other hand need to improve the opening attach so that there isn't much competition for the middle order. The other area of concern for Punjab is a weak balling attack, they certainly need to improve this area.

The next match Kins XI team will play is again a solid Kolkata Knight Riders, the batting of KKR is not so nice but they have got a lethal balling attack. KKR and RCB are the two teams I expect to defeat the Kings XI team. Bit given the form of the Maxwell and Miller it seems like this year Kings XI team could have the longest unbeaten streak in the history of IPL and also lift the title.

My best wishes to the Kings XI team and special best wishes for the openers Pujara and Sehwag looking for a opening stand from them that could last for minimum 10 overs.

Kings Eleven Punjab Team Overview - Kings XI Team Punjab

Kings XI as all the Indian cricket fans or fans of IPL must know is an IPL team owned by KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited. PCA stadium Mohali is the home ground  for the Kings XI team but they play few of the home matches at the beautiful and picturesque HPCA stadium located at Dharamshala, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. Unfortunately there are no matches to be played in Dharamshala this year.

Kings XI team were the semi finalists in the first season of IPL in 2008 and that was the best ever performance of the team so far in IPL. Nest year they didn't qualified to the knockouts and in the IPL3 they finished at the bottom of points table.  Since then team is trying hard but failed to make it to the knock out stages.

This year in IPL7 team looks fresh, solid and right balance of fast bowlers and hard hitting batsmen. However the team has a few specialist spinners and that might be an issue since there are very few games to be played at the fast Mohali pitch.


A change in captain ship might also help the team, George Bailey the Australian T20 captain will lead the team who has stars like Virendar Shewag, Mitchell Johnson, S Marsh, David Miller, Balaji etc.

Listed below is the full squad of the Kings XI Punjab IPL team: 

Batsmen        

• Virender Sehwag    Right-handed    Right-arm off break    
• George Bailey    Right-handed    Right-arm medium    
• Shaun Marsh    Left-handed    Slow left-arm orthodox    
• David Miller    Left-handed    Right-arm off break    
• Cheteshwar Pujara    Right-handed    Right-arm leg break    
• Gurkeerat Singh    Right-handed    Right-arm off break    
• Mandeep Singh    Right-handed    Right-arm medium    
• Manan Vohra    Right-handed    Right-arm medium    

All-rounders       

• Rishi Dhawan    Right-handed    Right-arm medium-fast    
• Glenn Maxwell    Right-handed    Right-arm off break   
• Akshar Patel    Left-handed    Slow left-arm orthodox    
• Thisara Perera    Left-handed    Right-arm medium-fast   

Wicket-keepers

            

• Wriddhiman Saha    Right-handed        

Bowlers    

• Parvinder Awana    Right-handed    Right-arm medium-fast    
• Lakshmipathy Balaji    Right-handed    Right-arm medium-fast    
• Beuran Hendricks    Right-handed    Left-arm medium-fast    
• Mitchell Johnson    Left-handed    Left-arm fast    
• Murali Kartik    Left-handed    Slow left-arm orthodox    
• Anureet Singh    Right-handed    Right-arm medium-fast    
• Karanveer Singh    Right-handed    Right-arm leg break googly    
• Sandeep Sharma    Right-handed    Right-arm medium-fast    
• Shardul Thakur    Right-handed    Right-arm medium-fast    
• Shivam Sharma    Right-handed    Right-arm off-break    

 Playing with only one specialist batsmen might not look good but in IPL its hard to get the beast deal from the auctions. Still it seems like Kings XI owners have stroked the best deal here and got the most powerful combination for the team.

Let me introduce you to the owners of King XI Team: 

• Preity Zinta - Famous bollywood celebrity, worked in lots of hindi movies
• Ness Wadia - of Wadi Group
• Mohit Burman - of Dabur Group
• Karan Paul -  of Apeejay Surendera Group
•  Praneeth Kumar

Coach of Kings XI - Interestingly the Kings XI is the only IPL team that have Indian coach, all other team have got foreigners as coaches. This would be interesting to see how Sanjay Bangar, who has played in IPL, performs as the coach of Kings XI.

Kings XI will play first match on 18th  and we wish the team good luck for this tournament. Hopefully the team will show the best performance in the history of IPL this year.

Kings XI Punjab got new assistant coach this IPL

The Kings XI team has been unlucky in the history of IPL so far. Lot was expected from this team in the IPL but so far they have not got any significant success in the tournament. They've tried change of captains, change of players but nothing seemed to be going in the positive directions so far.

In the current IPL 2013 the team management has hired a new assistant coach for the team.  Name of the new assistant coach is W V Raman, who will be the deputy to the foreign coach Darren Lehmann. The 47 years old Raman has represented India and Tamil Nadu during his playing days and has played in both tests & ODIs for India where he opened batting for India.

Raman has plenty of coaching experience behind him as well. He has been coaching domestic team like Tamil Nadu and Bengal from some time. This would be first IPL assignment for Raman and we at ICC Cricket Blog wishes both the assistant coach and his team all the best for this season. I am hopeful this will bring some change of fortunes for the Kings Eleven team.




Many of the young IPL fans might know much about W V Raman, so I'd request them to kindly take a look at his cricinfo profile and know more about the ex-opening batsmen of team India.