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.

Kings XI Punjab – IPL 2016 Team Squad

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.

Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2016 Team Squad (Confirmed)

Kolkata Knight Riders 2016 Squad: Kolkata Knight Riders has retained 15 players from last year’s squad which failed to qualify for knockout stages. 9 indian players and 6 foreign players has been retained. Gautam Ghambir will continue to captain Kolkata while local players like Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav and Yusuf Pathan are some of the names retained by Kolkata.

Auction results: They spent modestly in the auction with Colin Munro, John Hastings, Jaydav Unadkat and Ankit Rajpoot as their main signings.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team Squad 2016 (Auction Results)

NO#	RETAINED	AUCTION PLAYER BOUGHT
1	Gautam Gambhir (Captain)	Colin Munro (30 lakhs)
2	Robin Uthappa	John Hastings (1.3 crores)
3	Piyush Chawla	Jaydev Unadkat (1.6 crores)
4	Umesh Yadav	Ankit Rajpoot (1.5 crores)
5	Manish Pandey	Jason Holder  (Rs. 70 Lakh)
6	Yusuf Pathan	Rajagopal Satish  (Rs. 20 Lakh)
7	Sunil Narine (West Indies)	Manan Sharma  (Rs. 10 Lakh)
8	Brad Hogg (Australia)
9	Chris Lynn (Australia)
10	Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
11	Morne Morkel (South Africa)
12	Andre Russell (West Indies)
13	Sheldon Jackson
14	Suryakumar Yadav
15	Kuldeep Yadav

The most glamorous team in Indian Premier League, Kolkata Knight Riders, Owned by bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan. Kolkata Knight Riders were disappointingly bad in first few IPL seasons but they came out triumph in 2012 and 2014 winning IPL title twice. This year they will be one of the favourites again to lift the trophy.

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Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Murali Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Akshar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Johnson, Wriddhiman Saha, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Kyle Abbott, KC Cariappa, Marcus Stoinis, Farhaan Behardien, Pradeep Sahu, Armaan Jaffer, Swapnil Singh. Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) team in IPL 2016: Can surely capture the Indian Premier League

Delhi Daredevils (DD) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammad Shami, Saurabh Tiwary, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Jayant Yadav, Travis Head, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, JP Duminy, Albie Morkel, Quinton de Kock, Pawan Negi, Chris Morris, Sanju Samson, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, Joel Paris, Sam Billings, Chama Milind, Pratyush Singh, Mahipal Lomror, Saeed Khaleel Ahmed, Akhil Herwadkar, Pawan Suyal. Delhi Daredevils (DD) team in IPL 2016: Pack of budding players to vouch for in IPL 9

Mumbai Indians (MI) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ambati Rayudu, Jagadeesha Suchith, Jasprit Bumrah, Parthiv Patel, R Vinay Kumar, Shreyas Gopal, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, Unmukt Chand, Akshay Wakhare, Mitchell McClenaghan, Corey Anderson, Lendl Simmons, Kieron Pollard, Marchant de Lange, Lasith Malinga, Jos Buttler, Nathu Singh, Tim Southee, Krunal Pandya, Kishore Pramod Kamath, Deepak Punia, Jitesh Sharma. Mumbai Indians team in IPL 2016: Strong scope to defend title

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Adam Milne, Mitchell Starc, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Kane Richardson, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Praveen Dubey, Vikramjeet Malik, Akshay Karnewar, Iqbal Abdullah, Sachin Baby, Vikas Tokas. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team in IPL 2016: Favourites to win IPL 9

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Gautam Gambhir, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Sheldon Jackson, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Chris Lynn, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan. Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, John Hastings, Jason Holder, Colin Munro, Rajgopal Sathish, Manan Ajay Sharma. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team in IPL 2016: Some valuable purchases

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Bipul Sharma, Karn Sharma, KL Rahul, Naman Ojha, Parvez Rasool, Ricky Bhui, Shikhar Dhawan, Siddharth Kaul, David Warner, Moises Henriques, Eoin Morgan, Kane Williamson, Trent Boult, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Deepak Hooda, Mustafizur Rahman, Aditya Tare, Barinder Singh Sran, Ben Cutting, Vijay Shankar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Tirumalsetti Suman. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) team in IPl 2016: Well-balanced side after IPL 9

Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: MS Dhoni, Steven Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mitchell Marsh, Ashwin Murugan, Ishant Sharma, Kevin Pietersen, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, Rajat Bhatia, Ashoke Dinda, Scott Boland, Peter Handscomb, RP Singh, Adam Zampa, Ishwar Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Ankit Sharma. Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) team in IPL 2016: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) remnants

Gujarat Lions (GL) TEAM FOR IPL 2016: Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Brendon McCullum, Praveen Kumar, Dale Steyn, Dinesh Karthik, Dwayne Smith, Dhawal Kulkarni, Aaron Finch, Eklavya Dwivedi, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Jaydev Shah, Shadab Jakati, Pravin Tambe, Pradeep Sangwan, Amit Mishra, Shivil Kaushik, Aksh Deep Nath, Sarabjeet Ladda, Umang Sharma, Paras Dogra.Gujarat Lions (GL) team in IPL 2016: Lions have bases covered ahead of IPL 9