Punjab Kings will launch one other bid to place an finish to their 17-year look forward to an Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy when the new-look facet below the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer and coach Ricky Ponting takes subject towards Gujarat Titans of their campaign-opening sport of IPL 2025 on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on March 25.
Whereas Iyer led Kolkata Knight Riders to a title in 2024, he was not retained by the champions and acquired on the mega public sale by Punjab, who even have a brand new head coach within the type of Australian batting legend Ponting, who has ended his affiliation with Delhi Capitals.
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Ponting desires to rework the Kings right into a champion facet.
“The general imaginative and prescient for this crew is to win the IPL. I advised the blokes on the very first day after I joined the camp in Dharamsala that we have been going to create and turn out to be the best Punjab Kings crew that is performed,” Ponting was quoted as saying in a press launch.
“That is the journey that we’re on and that does not occur in a single day. You have to create that,” he mentioned. “Successful is absolutely an angle factor. If we flip as much as play, the opposition turns as much as play, in the event that they wish to beat us, then it appears like they’re taking one thing away and I do not wish to let anybody take something away from me or take something away from my crew.”
Ponting has excessive hopes from the kids within the Punjab squad, which incorporates the free-scoring Musheer Khan, the youthful brother of Sarfaraz.
“Priyansh Arya, I believe, is a really particular, potential opening batter for us going ahead within the match. Relying on which approach we go along with our abroad make-up, he is very thrilling. Suryansh Shedge can be somebody who has been very spectacular in our coaching to this point,” mentioned Ponting.
“After I discuss vitality and enjoyable, one other participant that I’m impressed with is Musheer Khan. He is introduced quite a bit to the group already. He has obtained an infectious angle, and across the coaching floor and across the crew to this point, he is been somebody that I’ve actually loved working with.”
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