The Punjab Kings chief coach (PBKs), Ricky Ponting, has revealed a master coup of the Shreyas Iyer pattern, which helped the team overcome the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in its accessory of the Premier League of the Premier League (IPL) 2025. Previously in the season, Pbks had defeated LSG for eight WICKETS at the Ekana Stadium.

The coach declared that it was Shreyas’ call to send Josh Inglis in his batting position of number 3. He insisted on promoting the Australian Wicktkeeper Batter in his alignment after the opener Priyash Arya left for 1 (4).

“Actually, it was a movement that occurred to him. He thought of that type of launch, against that bowling of bowling, which would be right, if a wickt fell early, send to English,” Ponting said at the press conference after the game.

Ricky Ponting about Shreyas Iyer’s decision

The PBKs coach had agreed with the captain’s move. Taking into account the strength of the short ball of the Western Australian player, they decided to send it early in the entrances to counteract the sprinter LSG Mayank Yadav.

“We feel that Mayank would launch early. If you look at the way they bowl, it is usually launched reasonably short. And that is one of the great English strengths, as you saw tonight. Those shots of shots were quite surprising immediately,” he said.

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He also explained how the sudden promotion of an English batting order brought a surprise element to the LSG refuge. The movement turned out to be suitable for PBKs, since the 30-year-old put a 14-ball-30. He played the cameo at an attack rate of 214.28 and provided a strong start of his tickets last night.

“It was probably a surprise call for Lsg to see it [Inglis] go out [at No.3] And it was worth it tonight. We beat very, very deep and allows our first order to play with great freedom. I think we were 70 -odd [66] At the end of the power game, the whole impulse was with us. And hit first and get that type of total was a great effort, ”concluded the coach.

Pbks vs Lsg in IPL 2025

Along with English, the starter Prabhsimran Singh achieved 91 runs of only 48 balls after visitors put them to hit Dharamsala first. Captain Shreyas Iyer contributed a blow of 45 races (25) before another burning final of Shank Singh (33 out of 15). PBKS put a huge 236/5 on the scoreboard.

In addition to the young Ayush Badoni and Abdul Samad, no other LSG batter fought in persecution. They noted 74 (40) and 45 (24) runs, respectively. Pacer Avesh Khan also reached a 10 balls of 19, but LSG only managed to reach 199/7 in 20 overs.

With this victory, PBK reached 15 points and are currently placed second in the league table. They need at least one more victory of the remaining three games to ensure their playoff place IPL 2025.

Shreyas and Co. will appear below against the capital of Delhi in the same place on May 8.

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