Punjab Kings (PBKS) retained a total of 17 players ahead of the IPL 2024 mini-auction scheduled to be held in December. India internationals Shikhar Dhawan, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Jitesh Sharma, and Rishi Dhawan have been retained by the franchise who are still searching for their first title.
Punjab Kings have also retained their overseas stars Matthew Short, Sikandar Raza, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Nathan Ellis, and Kagiso Rabada. Shahrukh Khan is a surprising omission from the PBKS retained list.

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh
Mohit Rathee, Raj Bawa, Shahrukh Khan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Baltej Singh
Shikhar Dhawan's PBKS has a purse of 29.1 crore remaining ahead of the IPL 2024 mini-auction. They have 17 players in their squad including 6 overseas players. PBKS has 8 available slots in their squad, with 2 reserved for overseas players.