IPL 2025: Punjab Kings Aim For Elusive Trophy With Experienced Skipper Shreyas Iyer At Helm
Punjab Kings Team Preview IPL 2025: The Shreyas Iyer-led star-studded team will look to make a fresh start this year and win the title for the first time.
Punjab Kings Season Preview IPL 2025: Perennial underachievers Punjab Kings will look to end their 18-year-long wait for a maiden IPL title when the latest season gets underway. The Punjab-based team is one of the three franchises that have been in the competition since the inception of the tournament but a title has remained elusive.
Star India batter Shreyas Iyer will lead Punjab in IPL 2025, having been bought for a whopping Rs 26.75 crore in the mega auction. The team features some big names like Arshdeep Singh (Rs 18 crore), Yuzvendra Chahal (Rs 18 crore) and Marcus Stoinis (Rs 11 crore) with a host of other Indian and overseas talents in the fray.
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In the two-day IPL 2025 mega auction that took place in Jeddah, Punjab bagged the services of Australia allrounder Glenn Maxwell, Punjab batter Nehal Wadhera and left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar and Karnataka medium-pacer Vijaykumar Vyshak to strengthen their team.
The most notable change comes in the form of a new captain at the helm, Iyer. His captaincy qualities and proven record as a middle-order anchor make him the ideal choice to lead Punjab’s IPL 2025 campaign.
Iyer’s presence in the batting lineup adds stability, while his capability to be a rock and accelerate as well will be important for the side.
Punjab chose to hit the reset button by retaining just two players from IPL 2024, wicketkeeper-batter Prabhsimran Singh and allrounder Shashank Singh.
In the bowling department, Punjab boast of one of the most well-balanced attacks in IPL 2025.
Punjab will open their campaign against the Gujarat Titans on March 25 and then take on the Lucknow Super Giants. Punjab’s first home match of IPL 2025 is scheduled against the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday, April 5.
How Punjab fared in IPL 2024
Punjab played under the split captaincy of Shikhar Dhawan and Sam Curran last season but could just manage to win five out of 14 games in the league stage. With 10 points, Punjab finished in the ninth position on the points table.
Strongest PBKS XI for IPL 2025
Prabhsimran Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Shreyas Iyer, Glenn Maxwell, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
PBKS Squad for IPL 2025
Shreyas Iyer (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Brar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Marco Jansen, Josh Inglis, Lockie Ferguson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Kuldeep Sen, Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardie, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett, Pyla Avinash, Pravin Dubey
PBKS Full schedule for IPL 2025
- vs Gujarat Titans, March 25 at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, 7:30 pm
- vs Lucknow Super Giants, April 1 at Ekana Cricket Stadium B Ground, Lucknow, 7:30 pm
- vs Rajasthan Royals, Saturday, April 5 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh, 7:30 pm
- vs Chennai Super Kings, April 8 in Chandigarh, 7:30 pm
- vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Saturday, April 12 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad, 7:30 pm
- vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Chandigarh, 7:30 pm
- vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 20 in Chandigarh, 3:30 pm
- vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Saturday, April 26 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, 7:30 pm
- vs Chennai Super Kings, April 30 at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 7:30 pm
- vs Lucknow Super Giants, Sunday, May 4 at HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, 7:30 pm
- vs Delhi Capitals, May 8 in Dharamsala, 7:30 pm
- vs Mumbai Indians, Sunday, May 11 in Dharamsala, 3:30 pm
- vs Rajasthan Royals, May 16, Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, 7:30 pm
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