NEW DELHI: In the past 10 seasons of Indian Primer League,
Kings XI Punjab
have managed to reach final just once – in 2014 when they were beaten by Kolkata Knight Riders. They will be hoping to go one better this time after spending Rs 67.4 crore from their available purse of Rs 67.5 crore.
Like
Rajasthan Royals, they also retained just one player - all-rounder
Axar Patel. And went on to purchase 20 players during the two-day auction in Bengaluru.
They made
KL Rahul the joint-costliest Indian cricketer by splurging Rs 11 crore on the first day of the auction before he was trumped by Jaydev Unadkat [Rs 11.5 crore] on the second day.
Former Chennai Super Kings and Pune Supergiant spinner R Ashwin was their second costliest purchase at Rs 7.6 crore followed by Australia's Andrew Tye [Rs 7.2 crore] who grabbed limelight when he took a hat-trick last
IPL.
Here's their complete squadAxar Patel, KL Rahul,
Ravichandran Ashwin, Andrew Tye, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Karun Nair, Mujeeb Zadran, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, David Miller, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Singh Sran, Yuvraj Singh, Christopher Gayle, Ben Dwarshuis, Akshdeep Nath, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Agarwal, Manzoor Dar, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar