Owner: Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendra Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur)

Franchise fee: $76 million

Captain: Yuvraj Singh

2008 Performance: Semi finals

Most expensive player: Yuvraj Singh - $1,063,750

Lion-hearted, spirited, passionate, hospitable, entertaining and brave - these are the words that the Kings XI Punjab team use to describe themselves. The team has made its mission clear "To be the most successful and entertaining franchise in the league". With Bollywood's Preity Zinta, and renowned industrialists Ness Wadia, Mohit Burman and Karan Paul behind this venture, the franchise has managed to come up with an impressive list of cricketers.

Batting stalwarts Mahela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara and Ramnaresh Sarwan will be expected to deliver alongside smiling assassin Brett Lee, break-dancing S. Sreesanth, Yusuf Abdullah and Irfan Pathan who will spearhead the bowling attack. Tom Moody is designated as the coach, while Yuvraj Singh is the captain of the starry squad.

Full squad:

International players: Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich and Burt Cockely (Australia), Yusuf Abdulla (South Africa), Ravi Bopara (England) and Mahela Jayawardene and Kumara Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

Indian players: Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Romesh Powar, VRV Singh, Karen Goel, Uday Kaul, Ryan Ninan, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Agral, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal and Yash Gandhi.