'Winning Captain & Coach' Sheryas-Ponting On PBKS Making Final: 'Be Hard To...'
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Ricky Ponting lauded Shreyas Iyer after he Punjab Kings to a five-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025 qualifier 2, setting up a final with Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Punjab Kings (PBKS) skipper Shreyas Iyer played a captain's knock in the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) qualifier 2 to beat Mumbai Indians (MI) by five wickets on Sunday and set up a tantalising final with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).
After the historic win, Sheryas and his PBKS coach Ricky Ponting had a chat, the video of which was posted by IPL on social media.
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'Well, we've got the coach with the winning captain. It's right, yeah, halfway mark," Ponting began, before being interupted by Shyers, who chimmed in with: 'winning coach with the winning captain."
'I feel the way it was playing, even bounce, even all coming off the weekend. It was tremendous. I felt, personally felt that it should have been a 220-wicket," Shyeras replied.
'Where I was, I personally felt that I was in a great zone. I was seeing the ball pretty well. If they pitch anywhere, I'm going to hit it for six. And I was in that zone," Shreyas said.
'And Josh Inglis 20 off (Jasprit) Bumrah's first over. That's a big sort of milestone in the game," Ponting said.
'Absolutely critical. I think when Bumrah went for 13-14 runs on that over, that gave us a great momentum and also a lot of confidence inside the dressing room. Every one of us were like, okay, the run change is on. And I think that was the initial part where we took on," Shreyas answered.
Ponting added: 'And you said, right from the start of this campaign, you know, about 10 days ago, we managed to qualify in the top four. Couple of days after that, we finished on top of the table. But you've made it really clear to the whole group that we're not done, yet."
Shyeras replied: 'Yes, absolutely job is not done. It's half done, as I keep saying, and the more we are in the present, the better, because when you start thinking about the future, you overthink and you drain your mind. And I personally feel that right now we just got to go inside the dressing room, refresh, rejuvenate, get a massage, come back fresh in the next game."
'Well, if you can keep anything like that, mate, this team's gonna be hard to beat," Ponting signed off.
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June 02, 2025, 11:09 IST
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