IPL 2019: Possible openers for each IPL side

#8 Kings XI Punjab - KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal

KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal

Kings XI Punjab is one of the three teams to have never won a trophy in the history of the IPL. They had a great opportunity in 2014 when they reached finals for the first time, only to end up losing to Kolkata Knight Riders.

In 2018, they began well with five wins from first six games but they failed to repeat the same performance in the second half of the tournament. They could win only 2 games in the next eight games.

But, KL Rahul did not disappoint his fans as he accumulated runs in almost every match. He amassed 659 runs from 14 innings at a strike-rate of 158.41 which included 66 boundaries and 32 sixes.

Even though Chris Gayle scored a century in 2018, he might warm a bench in 2019 with age, not on his side.

Mayank Agarwal, who has been tremendous in the domestic cricket, might open the innings for KXIP alongside KL Rahul.