The 2026 season was Punjab Kings' nineteenth appearance in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the ten cricket teams that competed in the 2026 IPL. The team was captained by Shreyas Iyer and coached by Ricky Ponting.
Punjab Kings were one of the last teams to be eliminated from the 2026 IPL and finished the season in fifth place with seven wins from 14 matches. Prabhsimran Singh scored the most runs (510) while Arshdeep Singh took the most wickets (14) for Punjab in the 2026 season.
Pre-season
The 2026 Indian Premier League was the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league held in India, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Punjab Kings are one of the three active franchises not to have won the IPL title prior to 2026. They were the runners-up in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 28 March to 31 May 2026. Punjab played most of their home matches at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium with three matches played at HPCA Cricket Stadium.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain any number of players from their squad, except for the players signed as temporary replacements after the 2025 season's suspension and rescheduling who were not available for retention. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 15 November 2025. Punjab retained 21 players, including captain Shreyas Iyer.
+ Retained players Domestic Overseas Priyansh Arya Pyla Avinash Harpreet Brar Yuzvendra Chahal Shreyas Iyer Musheer Khan Harnoor Singh Suryansh Shedge Arshdeep Singh Shashank Singh Prabhsimran Singh Yash Thakur Vishnu Vinod Vijaykumar Vyshak Nehal Wadhera Xavier Bartlett Marcus Stoinis Marco Jansen Mitchell Owen Azmatullah Omarzai Lockie Ferguson + Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Bowlers Josh Inglis Aaron Hardie Glenn Maxwell Praveen Dubey
Kuldeep Sen
Auction The season's auction took place on 16 December 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for every retained player. Punjab had a purse remaining of . Punjab bought four players in the auction, including two capped overseas players.
+ Auctioned players Domestic Overseas Capped Uncapped Capped Uncapped Praveen Dubey Vishal Nishad Ben Dwarshuis Cooper Connolly
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2026 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of .
+ Punjab Kings squad for the 2026 Indian Premier League Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 2 Arshdeep Singh Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 3 Yuzvendra Chahal Right-handed Right-arm leg break 4 Vishnu Vinod Right-handed 5 Suryansh Shedge Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 8 Cooper Connolly Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Overseas 9 Azmatullah Omarzai Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 13 Harpreet Brar Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 15 Xavier Bartlett Right-handed Right-arm fast Overseas 16 Mitchell Owen Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas 17 Marcus Stoinis Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 18 Priyansh Arya Left-handed Right-arm off break 19 Nehal Wadhera Left-handed Right-arm leg break 25 Praveen Dubey Right-handed Right-arm leg break 27 Shashank Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 28 Yash Thakur Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 30 Vishal Nishad Right-handed Right-arm leg break 31 Vijaykumar Vyshak Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 69 Lockie Ferguson Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 70 Marco Jansen Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast Overseas 84 Prabhsimran Singh Right-handed 96 Shreyas Iyer Right-handed Right-arm leg break Captain 97 Musheer Khan Right-handed Left-arm orthodox Pyla Avinash Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Ben Dwarshuis Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium Overseas Harnoor Singh Left-handed Right-arm leg break
Support staff Sairaj Bahutule replaced Sunil Joshi as a bowling coach.
Position Name Head coach Ricky Ponting Assistant coach Brad Haddin Bowling coach James HopesSairaj Bahutule Source: News18
League stage Punjab Kings began their season with two wins against Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings. Their third match against Kolkata Knight Riders was abandoned due to rain. They won their next four matches against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mumbai Indians, Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals. However, they lost their next six matches to Rajasthan Royals, Gujarat, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. They won their last game of the season against Lucknow to finish the league stage in fifth place with fifteen points and were eliminated.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Statistics
At the IPL end of season awards, Punjab were awarded the team fairplay award.
+ Most runs Runs Player 510 Prabhsimran Singh 498 Shreyas Iyer 491 Cooper Connolly 364 Priyansh Arya 216 Marcus Stoinis + Most wickets Wickets Player 14 Arshdeep Singh 12 Yuzvendra Chahal 9 Marco Jansen Vijaykumar Vyshak 5 Xavier Bartlett
References
External links
Punjab Kings at IPLT20.com