Kings XI Punjab started the IPL 2018 campaign with five wins from the first six matches and were looking good to make the final four for the playoffs. But in the end, they finished at the seventh position with just six wins from fourteen games, won only one from the last eight games and they ended the group stage with five consecutive defeats.
Only opener KL Rahul and bowlers Andrew Tye and Mujeeb ur Rahman showed consistency with bat and ball respectively throughout the season, Chris Gayle too failed in the second half of the league after scoring four fifty-plus scores in the first five matches.
The middle order batsmen scored only two fifties in the whole season. Batsmen like Mayank Agarwal, Yuvraj Singh, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis failed in each and every match. In the bowling department captain R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Mohit Sharma were among the major disappointments.
Here is a look at Kings XI Punjab's IPL 2018 performance :
Team Records :
1. Result Summary :
| Opposition | Match | Won | Lost | NR |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mumbai Indians | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Delhi Daredevils | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
- Kings XI Punjab won five out of the first six games and lost seven out of the last games and ended the season with five consecutive defeats.
- In Mohali, Kings XI Punjab won all the three matches they played and only one from four games at their adopted home Indore.
2. Highest Team Total :
214/8 vs KKR at Indore
197/7 vs CSK at Mohali
193/3 vs SRH at Mohali
3. Lowest Team Total :
88 vs RCB at Indore
119 vs SRH at Hyderabad
143/8 vs DD at Delhi
Batting Records :
1. Most Runs :
| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Avg | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| KL Rahul | 14 | 14 | 659 | 54.9 | 158.4 | 95* | 0 | 6 |
| C Gayle | 11 | 11 | 368 | 40.9 | 146.0 | 104* | 1 | 3 |
| K Nair | 13 | 12 | 301 | 25.1 | 136.2 | 54 | 0 | 2 |
| A Finch | 10 | 9 | 134 | 16.8 | 134.0 | 46 | 0 | 0 |
2. Highest individual scores :
Chris Gayle - 104* vs SRH at Mohali
KL Rahul - 95* vs RR at Jaipur
KL Rahul - 94 vs MI at Mumbai
KL Rahul - 84* vs RR at Indore
3. Highest batting average (Min 5 innings played)
KL Rahul - 54.91
Chris Gayle - 40.88
Karun Nair - 25.08
Marcus Stoinis - 24.75
4. Highest batting strike rate (Min 100 balls faced)
KL Rahul - 158.41
Chris Gayle - 146.03
Karun Nair - 136.19
Aaron Finch - 134.00
5. Most fifty plus scores :
KL Rahul - 6
Chris Gayle - 4
Karun Nair - 2
Bowling Records :
1. Most wickets :
| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Avg | Eco | BBI | 4-fers |
| A Tye | 14 | 14 | 24 | 18.7 | 8.0 | 4/16 | 3 |
| M ur Rahman | 11 | 11 | 14 | 20.6 | 6.9 | 3/27 | 0 |
| A Rajpoot | 8 | 8 | 11 | 20.3 | 8.5 | 5/14 | 1 |
| R Ashwin | 14 | 14 | 10 | 41.0 | 8.1 | 2/18 | 0 |
2. Best bowling figures in an innings :
Ankit Rajpoot - 5/14 vs SRH at Hyderabad
Andrew Tye - 4/16 vs MI at Mumbai
Andrew Tye - 4/34 vs RR at Jaipur
Andrew Tye - 4/41 vs KKR at Indore
3. Best bowling average (Min 5 wickets) :
Andrew Tye - 18.66
Ankit Rajpoot - 20.27
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 20.64
R Ashwin - 41.00
4. Best economy rate ( Min 10 overs bowled) :
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 6.99
Andrew Tye - 8.00
R Ashwin - 8.09
Axar Patel - 8.38
