Would Need To Mark Myself At…: Shreyas Iyer Reveals His Most popular Batting Place At Punjab Kings For IPL 2025

Having carried out the function of a “silent hero” at quantity 4 within the title-winning Champions Trophy marketing campaign, Shreyas Iyer desires to make a huge impact at quantity three place on this Indian Premier League season.

Iyer isn’t a part of India’s T20 arrange however a productive debut season for Punjab Kings may revive his worldwide profession within the shortest format. He captained Kolkata Knight Riders to the title final season the place he batted within the middle-order.

With Punjab Kings, an underperforming franchise since IPL’s inception in 2008, Iyer feels no strain of main the group and simply desires to win one other trophy.

“We already know that IPL is an integral a part of Indian cricket. And If I’d wish to mark myself at some place in T20, it will be quantity 3. And that is what I am focusing at. I would not say that we’re planning and occupied with what quantity I will likely be batting.

“This time I am fairly clear about that place. And I will be specializing in that quantity. So long as coach approves of me,” Iyer stated on the season opening media interplay seated alongside head coach Ricky Ponting.

Recent from a profitable Champions Trophy, Iyer is worked up about his reunion with Ponting. They each labored collectively at Delhi Capitals.

“I’ve labored with him for nearly three years in a franchise. And I understand how he thinks about each particular person on and off the sphere. He helps everybody. You see in some locations there’s a senior-junior tradition.

“However once I labored with him for the primary time, he made me really feel like I am an awesome participant. And I can simply excel on this format. So, the boldness he provides is of a unique stage,” Iyer stated.

“And it feels good to work with him. If, for instance the consequence has gone right here and there, his thoughts would not fluctuate. He thinks in the identical method. And he simply likes to win.”

And what his shared purpose of the partnership with the Australian legend?

“The significance is to win the trophy. There isn’t a strain (of Punjab having by no means gained the IPL). It is a chance,” stated Iyer.

Was determined to work with Iyer

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Ponting was all reward for Iyer on the media interplay. Punjab had retained solely two gamers forward of the mega public sale the place they constructed a squad stuffed with match winners together with Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell and Marco Jansen.

“I used to be determined to work with Shreyas once more. We had an awesome working relationship at Delhi over an extended time period. He is the most effective gamers that I’ve labored with,” the previous Australia captain stated.

“He is an awesome human being. He is an IPL profitable captain. You could not ask for way more. He is solely joined the camp a few days in the past. So he is beginning to make his mark on the group as a captain and as a pacesetter.

“We have put an awesome squad collectively. As , the captain-coach relationship in any group is important. And I do know that we have got a very good sturdy one right here,” stated Ponting.

The Australian nice careworn on the significance of profitable at residence, one thing Punjab Kings haven’t been in a position to do lately.

“What I perceive is that in case you are not profitable at residence, you aren’t profitable the IPL,” Ponting put it in easy phrases.

“It is one of many important causes that I am sitting right here now. I needed a very sturdy teaching problem. And we have got that. However there is not any strain on us. What have we obtained to lose? (having by no means gained).

“We’ll exit and play a very dynamic and entertaining model of cricket. And I do know we have got the gamers that may try this.”

Punjab Kings play Gujarat Titans of their IPL opener in Ahmedabad on March 25.