Punjab Kings 2026 Squad, Results & Stats

Punjab Kings is a Punjab-based men's Twenty20 franchise owned by K.P.H. Dream Cricket Private Limited. Founded as Kings XI Punjab in 2008 and renamed Punjab Kings in 2021, the team competes in the Indian Premier League; similarly branded teams in other leagues are separate squads and are not mixed into this page's statistics.

PBKS finished fifth in IPL 2026 with seven wins, six losses and one abandoned match from 14 fixtures, 15 points and a net run rate of +0.309. Prabhsimran Singh led the batting with 510 runs and Arshdeep Singh topped the bowling list with 14 wickets.

Shreyas Iyer captained the team and Ricky Ponting remained head coach. PBKS began the season unbeaten through seven matches, then lost six in a row before beating Lucknow Super Giants in its final league game; the remaining results left Punjab outside the playoffs.

No. PBKS won six of its first seven matches, while the game against Kolkata Knight Riders was abandoned after 3.4 overs and gave each team one point. Unbeaten therefore means six wins and one no-result, not seven wins.

That distinction matters when reading a streak. Punjab had not lost through seven fixtures, but the abandoned match supplied one point rather than the two awarded for a win.

No. Rajasthan Royals finished fourth with 16 points, one more than Punjab's 15. PBKS actually had the higher net run rate, +0.309 compared with Rajasthan's +0.189, but NRR could not bridge the points gap.

Net run rate orders teams only after the relevant points tie. Here, the missing point was decisive before an NRR tiebreak became necessary.

No. Punjab went 3-1 across four home matches in Mullanpur but 0-3 during its Dharamshala home leg, producing a combined 3-4 home record.

The split prevents one blended home statistic from hiding the venue difference. PBKS beat Gujarat, Hyderabad and Lucknow in Mullanpur, while Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru won the three Dharamshala fixtures.

The result sequence changed immediately after the unbeaten opening. PBKS followed six wins and one no-result with six consecutive defeats, then won its final match at Lucknow.

The early cushion kept Punjab in contention, but the 0-6 middle-to-late slide exhausted it. Shreyas Iyer's unbeaten 101 in the final chase moved PBKS to 15 points without guaranteeing qualification.

Seven wins supplied 14 points and the rain-abandoned KKR match supplied one more. The six defeats added none, giving PBKS 15 points from 14 league matches.

This is the correct treatment of a no-result under the IPL points system. Counting the abandoned match as either a win or a loss would distort both the record and the final total.