Kings XI Punjab 2016 IPL Team Squad
Kings XI Punjab 2016 Squad: Kings XI Punjab has released Virender Sehwag who might not play in next edition of IPL while along with Sehwag they have let go 8 players the lowest number of all teams. The big name players who are released ahead of the IPL auction are Beuran Hendricks, Geroge Bailey and Thisara Perera while the likes of Murali Vijay, Wriddhiman Saha, David Miller, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Marsh has been retained. below is the list of players retained and released ahead of the new season.
Auction Results: Kings Xi Punjab spent big on Mohit Sharma (6.5 crores) and Kyle Abbott (2.1 crores) plus a few squad signings like Marcus Stoinis and KC Cariappa. Below is the entire squad for 2016 season.
| NO# | RETAINED | BOUGHT IN AUCTION |
| 1 |  Murali Vijay | Mohit Sharma (6.5 crores) |
| 2 |  Shaun Marsh (Australia) | Marcus Stoinis (55 Lakhs) |
| 3 | Glenn Maxwell (Australia) |  Kyle Abbott (2.1 crores) |
| 4 | David Miller (South Africa) | KC Cariappa (80 lakhs) |
| 5 | Mitchel Johnson (Australia) | Armaan Jafeer (Rs. 10 Lakh) |
| 6 | Wriddhiman Saha | Pardeep Sahu (Rs. 10 Lakh) |
| 7 | Axer Patel | Swapnil Singh (Rs. 10 Lakh) |
| 8 | Shardul Shakur | Farhan Behardien (Rs. 30 Lakh) |
| 9 | Anureet Singh | |
| 10 | Gurkeerat Singh | |
| 11 | Manan Vohra | |
| 12 | Nikhil Naik | |
| 13 | Rishi Dhawan | |
| 14 | Sandeep Sharma |
Kings XI Punjab were left in shock as they finished bottom of the league table in 2015 IPL season with only three wins in entire IPL 2015. One would imagin they will be looking to overhaul the squad from previous season but to surprise they have retained as many as 14 players ahead of the IPL 2016 auction leaving them with only Rs 23 crore to buy new players in the auction. Lets take a look at their squad and what positions they will be looking to strengthen in IPL auction.
Pretty solid squad with balance in both batting and bowling, their biggest weakness is the lack of depth in batting and bowling and that was the main cause of their abysmal display last season. Kings XI Punjab will be keen to bring in their former star Yuvraj Singh back in the side who is available in the IPL Auction 2016. Plus they lack some quality spin bowlers so we can imagin them going after some quality spinners.
IPL Auction Budget: Kings XI Punjab has already spent Rs 43 crore in retaining 14 players which leaves them with Rs 23 crore ahead of the 6 february 2016’s IPL Auction.
We will be updating this post after the Auction with full squad of Kings XI Punjab, so do check back on the day of Auction for live updates as well as full team squad.
