As the excitement builds for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season, concerns are mounting around a few underperforming players in the Punjab Kings squad. Despite big reputations, some PBKS batters struggled with low batting averages and inconsistent strike rates during recent T20 tournaments. Moreover, frequent collapses in the middle overs has exposed Punjab Kings’ lack of stability, whereas some bowlers recorded high economy rates, especially in the death overs, and lack of wicket-taking options during the powerplay has also hurt the team.
A few overseas and Indian players have thus failed to provide balance, contributing neither impactful runs nor consistent wickets along with fitness concerns and fluctuating form, thus adding to selection headaches ahead of IPL 2026. Here in this article, we have listed as many as three players who are in poor form ahead of the upcoming edition, let’s take a look.
3 Punjab Kings players who are in poor form ahead of IPL 2026
Marcus Stoinis
Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis made a return in the T20I setup, delivering crucial performance in a few matches, but failed to be consistent. Although he showed strong all-round form, contributing with powerful hitting and useful bowling spells, but inconsistency and injury woes have been a point of concern. Australia, who had a forgetful campaign at the T20 World Cup 2026, saw Stoinis struggle with the bat as he could only score 55 runs in four matches, averaging 18.33. With the ball, he picked only four wickets in as many games at an economy of 8.94.
Cooper Connolly
Connolly, who emerged as one of the most exciting young T20 batters for Perth Scorchers in BBL 2025-26, featured in only a couple of matches, but put up aggressive batting performances on the front. But despite his strong BBL form, Connolly’s international T20I opportunities were limited. While he was picked in Australia’s squad for the T20 World Cup 2026, but could not make much of an impact in the middle-order as he scored only 14 runs across two matches. His recent performance thus adds him to this list of poor performers for PBKS ahead of the upcoming edition.
Lockie Ferguson
Lockie Ferguson’s 2025–26 T20 season was significantly disrupted by injury and availability issues. While he was among the key options for New Zealand and other franchises in T20 leagues, but injury struggles persisted and hampered his appearances across several tournaments. Although he had an influential campaign with the Desert Vipers in ILT20 2025, but a calf injured ruled him from other leagues like BBL 2025-26.
Ferguson further went on to make limited appearances in T20 World Cup 2026 in India and Sri Lanka, but returned with only 6 wickets in 8 matches. Moreover, Ferguson also struggled with bowling right lines and lengths with his worst performance coming in the T20 World Cup 2026 final against India, where he conceded 48 runs in two overs and went wicketless.
PBKS IPL 2026 squad
Batters: Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Pannu, Pyla Avinash, Prabsimran Singh, Shashank Singh
All-rounders: Marcus Stoinis, Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Priyansh Arya, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Mitch Owen, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis
Bowlers: Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Pravin Dubey, Vishal Nishad, Lockie Ferguson.
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