File picture of Ricky Ponting and Shreyas Iyer© BCCI
India batter Shreyas Iyer mentioned he’s desirous to brainstorm alongside Ricky Ponting as soon as once more within the Punjab Kings set-up for IPL 2025, and recalled of how he shared an incredible camaraderie with the legendary Australia skipper beforehand within the match. Ponting and Iyer have been head coach and captain within the Delhi Capitals’ for 3 seasons, the place the facet as soon as completed as runners-up in 2020. However with Ponting named as Punjab’s head coach earlier this yr and the franchise buying Iyer for INR 26.75 crore within the public sale at Jeddah final month all however sealed their reunion.
“I can understand what the feelings must be among the fans. With Ricky coming in, we have shared a great camaraderie from the past. We would be putting our thinking caps on and brainstorming on many aspects. Hopefully, we will deliver from the match one.”
“Super excited to be part of Punjab Kings. I cannot wait to join the Punjab Kings family. It’s been a great year for me to win four trophies. My main goal is to win the IPL trophy for Punjab,” mentioned Iyer within the franchise’s assertion on Saturday.
Iyer comes into Punjab set-up on the again of captaining Kolkata Knight Riders to IPL 2024 title and just lately main Mumbai to their second Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy title in Bengaluru. In Mumbai’s triumphant marketing campaign, Iyer scored 345 runs in 9 innings, together with a century and fifty.
“Surreal feeling after winning Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. A lot of hard work took place behind the scenes. The boys were tremendous with their performance. Now we are done with this part,” added Iyer. His subsequent project is now taking part in for Mumbai within the Vijay Hazare Trophy league matches, beginning on Saturday in Ahmedabad.
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