Punjab Kings recorded their highest score of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season, putting 236 on the board against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). The choice of Prabhasimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer, and Shashank Singh contributed the most with the bat, adding scores of 91, 45 and 33 respectively, but another batsman, whose cameo helped the team to put a magnificent total on the board, Josh English. The Australian did not do much with the bat until the match in Dharamsa, where he was promoted to the number 3 place. After the game, PBKS head coach Ricky Ponting revealed that the decision to change the role of Englandis was taken by Skipar Shreyas Iyer.
“It was really a step that came with the captain, and Shreyas thought, on that kind of pitch, against that bowling attack, this would be the right thing. If one wicket fell quickly, to send to England.
English scored 30 runs with just 14 balls after Priyash Arya left for 4 balls. Engagis made 4 sixes during her cameo, setting tone for Punjab’s performance with bat. While LSG was preparing against Priyash, Prabimron and Iyer at the top of the batting order, the English came out of the course.
“So, yes, it was what the captain wanted to do. It still allows us, you know, between Iyer, Wadhera and Shashank innings, which we thought would be important for us in tonight’s game. There was a stunning call for LSG to go out, and paid tonight.
“Once we landed for one [flier] You know, I think we were 70-year-old at the end of the power play, all the pace was going on with us, and you see with our batting, we have found someone like Azamatullah in number nine, so we really, in fact, bats deeply, it allows our top order to play with great freedom, and they did so tonight. ,
At the press conference, Ponting also revealed that he had supported at least one Prabhasimran Singh and Princess Arya to get a hundred in the match against LSG. Prabhasimran became very close, scored 91 from 48 balls in the match.
“He (Prabhasimran) and Priyash have closed us to make some great start in the tournament.
“With our batting group, we have just given some clear direction in this way to understand how important the top order partnership is in this competition, and we know if Priyash and Prab are going together, they can be ultra disastrous. Priyash may be mainly as a even more, with a heterer, so that they should work completely, so that they should work completely, and the other.
“This is really good, really a good group. That’s when we sit as a group, thinking about our auction strategy and the players we wanted to maintain, I think you are starting to see why I was eager to maintain Prabasimran. He is a very good young player, and he is still anxious to make this team successful.”
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