The 2025 season was the 18th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Punjab Kings. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. Ahead of the season, Shreyas Iyer was appointed as the captain. The team was coached by Ricky Ponting.
Punjab Kings finished in first place in the league stage and advanced to Qualifier 1 in the playoffs. The team lost Qualifier 1 to Royal Challengers Bengaluru but won Qualifier 2 against Mumbai Indians to qualify for Punjab's second final. However they lost the final again to Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Captain Iyer scored the most runs (604) while Arshdeep Singh took the most wickets (21) for Punjab in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Punjab Kings were one of the four active franchises to not have won the IPL title before 2025. The team finished in ninth place in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Punjab played most of their home matches at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium with one match played at HPCA Cricket Stadium, except for the last two, which were moved to Sawai Mansingh Stadium following the IPL's suspension and rescheduling.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Punjab retained two players, but did not retain their prior captain who announced his retirement.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Shashank Singh 2 Prabhsimran Singh
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Jitesh Sharma Shikhar Dhawan Rilee Rossouw Harpreet Singh Bhatia Shivam Singh Vishwanath Singh Ashutosh Sharma Atharva Taide Jonny Bairstow Sam Curran Sikandar Raza Chris Woakes Rishi Dhawan Liam Livingstone Harshal Patel Nathan Ellis Kagiso Rabada Arshdeep Singh Vidwath Kaverappa Harpreet Brar Tanay Thyagarajan Rahul Chahar
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Punjab had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Punjab had four cards available. Punjab bought twenty-three players in the auction, including twelve capped players and eight overseas players. Punjab used their RTM cards to buy back Arshdeep Singh for .
Squad Players with international caps as of the start of the 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Punjab Kings squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N 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 5 Suryansh Shedge Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 9 Azmatullah Omarzai Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 12 Kyle Jamieson Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas; temporary replacement 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; replacement 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 27 Shashank Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 31 Vijaykumar Vyshak Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 46 Praveen Dubey Right-handed Right-arm leg break 70 Marco Jansen Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast Overseas 84 Prabhsimran Singh Right-handed 95 Josh Inglis Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas 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 Harnoor Singh Left-handed Right-arm leg break Vishnu Vinod Right-handed Aaron Hardie Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas Kuldeep Sen Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Yash Thakur Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 32 Glenn Maxwell Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas; withdrawn 69 Lockie Ferguson Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas; withdrawn
Support staff Ricky Ponting replaced Trevor Bayliss as head coach while James Hopes replaced Charl Langeveldt as bowling coach.
Position Name Head coach Ricky Ponting Assistant coach Brad Haddin Bowling coach James HopesSunil Joshi Source: Wisden
League stage Punjab Kings began their season with two wins against Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants. They lost to Rajasthan Royals, won against Chennai Super Kings, lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad; won against Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru; and lost to Bengaluru. Their ninth match against Kolkata was abandoned due to rain. Punjab won their next three matches against Chennai, Lucknow and Rajasthan; lost to Delhi Capitals and won against Mumbai Indians; to finish the league stage in first place with nine wins from 14 matches, and advanced to Qualifier 1 in the playoffs.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Playoffs Bracket
Qualifier 1
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
+ Most runs Runs Player 604 Shreyas Iyer 549 Prabhsimran Singh 475 Priyansh Arya 369 Nehal Wadhera 350 Shashank Singh + Most wickets Wickets Player 21 Arshdeep Singh 16 Marco Jansen 16 Yuzvendra Chahal 10 Harpreet Brar 8 Azmatullah Omarzai
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Punjab Kings at IPLT20.com