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KINGS XI PUNJAB

Owners:
Preity Zinta Karan Paul
Aditya Khanna Gaurav Burman
Rohit Burman Ness Wadia

Captain: Yuvraj Singh

Players (in alphabetical order):

Yusuf Abdulla
Ajitesh Argal
Ravi Bopara
Ranadeb Bose
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Piyush Chawla
Burt Cockley
Yash Gandhi
Karan Goel
James Hopes
Mahela Jayawardene
Who all get involved in the fi nal XI selection from game to game? Simon Katich
NW: The Coach and the Captain. Uday Kaul
Taruwar Kohli
You had some terrible luck at the start of IPL 2. The loss of key players and the rain. Nuwan Kulasekara
NW: Yes, we did have terrible luck and lost a lot of key players. Our fi rst two matches were rained out and the Duckworth Lewis rule Brett Lee
was applied, which in my own humble opinion, is a total misfi t for T20, the reason for this being that, the team batting second usually Vikramjeet Malik
wins as a result of this rule. Shaun Marsh
Wilkin Mota
Unknown Yusuf Abdullah turned out to be quite a fi nd - he almost walked away with the purple cap. Ryan Ninan
NW: Yes, Yusuf is an amazing T20 player and we were lucky to spot him so early. Irfan Pathan
MB: Yusuf was a good choice at the right price and I wish he would have got the purple cap. Luke Pomersbach
Ramesh Powar
As did that little piece of dynamite, Sunny Sohal. Kumar Sangakkara
NW & MB: Sunny will always be an asset to whichever team he plays for and has an incredible amount of potential. Ravikant Shukla
Amanpreet Singh
You must’ve missed the packed Mohali houses in South Africa? V.R.V. Singh
NW: Without question! The crowd at Mohali is the best. We sorely missed them and look forward to being one with them in IPL 3. Sunny Sohal
MB: Yes, but we are back this year. Bigger and Better. S. Sreesanth
Tanmay Srivastava
What were the highpoints of South Africa for you personally, besides team performance? Jerome Taylor
NW: The people of South Africa and the warmth they showed towards us.
Coach: Tom Moody
KXIP is one of the strongest teams on paper, certainly one that deserved to be in the semis. What do you think went wrong in Season 2?
NW: Injury to key players, lack of availability of key players due to internal commitments, some players from certain countries not Support Staff: Dav Nosworthy
being allowed to play. Poor decision-making. Trevor Penney Patrick Farhart.

Despite fi nishing outside the top 4 what were the pluses out of this tournament for Kings XI? “
MB: It took the tournament and our brand KXIP global.

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