When the Punjab Kings (PBKS) kick off their IPL 2023 campaign on April 1 against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in their hometown of Mohali, they will be looking to improve upon their sixth-place finish in the previous season.<\/p>\n
After Mayank Agarwal had a poor season with the bat the previous year, the PBKS administration made a number of changes to their team, releasing him and giving Shikhar Dhawan the captaincy for the IPL 2023.<\/p>\n
The England board\u2019s decision to deny Jonny Bairstow a NOC while he recovers from a broken leg handed them another devastating blow. Sam Curran and Sikandar Raza were purchased by PBKS at the IPL 2023 sale for 18.50 crores and 50 lakhs, respectively.<\/p>\n
Sam Curran is the most costly IPL player ever, with a price tag of INR 18.5 crore. If Punjab Kings are to advance to the IPL playoffs for the first time since 2014, the 24-year-old England all-rounder will be crucial.<\/p>\n
Curran was named Player of the Tournament and Player of the Match in the Final of the T20 World Cup in Australia because of his death-bowling, which most people found shocking.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the Punjab Kings (PBKS) kick off their IPL 2023 campaign on April 1 against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2054],"class_list":["post-20323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-pbks"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}