PBKS Newly Made Captain Shreyas Iyer Hits 85 In Intra-Squad Apply Match Forward Of IPL 2025

Punjab Kings (PBKS) skipper Shreyas Iyer scored an excellent knock of 85 runs in 41 balls throughout his facet’s intra-squad apply match forward of the Indian Premier League (IPL) marketing campaign on the new PCA Stadium, New Chandigarh. Throughout the match on Wednesday, Iyer’s Workforce B scored a complete of 205 in 20 overs.

Workforce B was powered by Iyer’s hard-hitting knock of 85 in 41 balls. For Workforce A, Shashank Singh took 2/38. In reply, Workforce A openers Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh obtained their facet off to an excellent as they scored 72 in 31 balls and 66 runs in 42 balls respectively. Vishnu Vinod additionally performed a quickfire cameo of 26* in simply 10 balls.

Workforce A scored 198 runs and fell wanting the goal by 7 runs. Quick bowler Arshdeep Singh was impressed with figures of twenty-two runs in 4 overs whereas taking two wickets, as per a be aware from the Punjab Kings. Punjab Kings’ hunt for his or her first-ever title will kickstart towards Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on March 25. The staff will then return to their house floor, the New PCA Stadium in New Chandigarh, for 2 house video games towards Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Tremendous Kings

With the 18th version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) across the nook, Punjab Kings (PBKS) addressed the media on the season launch press convention going down on Tuesday, March 18. The press convention was attended by Head Coach Ricky Ponting, Captain Shreyas Iyer and CEO Satish Menon, who delved deeper into the staff’s plans and targets for the upcoming season. Head coach Ponting was all reward for Shreyas as he expressed how glad he’s to have the latter because the captain of the facet and mentioned he’s trying ahead to work with him once more.

“He is an excellent human being. He’s an IPL-winning captain. We couldn’t have requested for extra. He has solely joined the camp a few days in the past so he’s beginning to make his mark on the staff as a captain and as a pacesetter and that can evolve over the subsequent few days earlier than we get into our first recreation. However as I mentioned, I couldn’t have been happier,” mentioned Ponting, as quoted from a launch by Punjab Kings.

Additional explaining how the brand new squad of the staff incorporates applicable stability, the two-time World Cup-winning skipper mentioned, “Now we have had a very good mixture of youth and expertise. Now we have actually high-quality of Indian gamers and a few actually high-quality abroad gamers as nicely.” “I’m elated with how the squad has come collectively. We had our first session right here final night time which went actually good. The boys have educated rather well,” he added, expressing his satisfaction with the mix.

Iyer additionally expressed his pleasure to work once more with Ponting and defined how his presence is including to the general depth of the staff. “He helps everybody. After I labored with him for the primary time prior to now, he made me really feel like I’m an excellent participant and I can simply excel on this format. The boldness he provides a participant is of a distinct degree,” he mentioned, as quoted from a launch by Punjab Kings.

He additional deliberated on the staff’s goal for the season and mentioned, “The objective is to win the trophy, that’s our mindset proper now and it is a step-by-step course of, it is not such as you get up within the morning and do it however the best way we’re training proper now and the best way we’re sharing our wavelength and camaraderie with one another, it’s going rather well.”

PBKS Full Squad, IPL 2025 

Batters: Shreyas Iyer, Shashank Singh (retained), Nehal Wadhera, Harnoor Singh Pannu, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash

Wicketkeepers: Josh Inglis, Vishnu Vinod, Prabhsimran Singh (retained)

Allrounders: Glenn Maxwell (spin), Marcus Stoinis (tempo), Marco Jansen (tempo), Harpreet Brar (spin), Azmatullah Omarzai (tempo), Aaron Hardie (tempo), Musheer Khan (spin), Suryansh Shedge (tempo)

Spinners: Yuzvendra Chahal, Pravin Dubey

Quick bowlers: Arshdeep Singh (RTM), Lockie Ferguson, Yash Thakur, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Kuldeep Sen, Xavier Bartlett.