Punjab Kings striker Nehal Wadhera praised head coach Ricky Ponting and Skipper Shreyas Iyer for the team’s historic victory against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2025 IPL match on Tuesday. Playing Mullanpur, PBKS defended the lowest total in IPL history and won its fourth victory in six games. PBKS played KKR for only 95 and defended the target of 112 while the spinner Yuzvendra Chahal roars and scalpet four counters. After the historic victory, Wadhera revealed the cat that Ponting had with the team during the sleeve break.
By opting to beat first, PBKS faced their worst nightmare while their range of strikers died of KKR’s bowling attack. Their strikers literally had trouble crossing the brand of the 100 points and was grouped for 111. Wadhera revealed that during the sleeve break, Ponting showed no disappointment towards the strikers and rather motivated the quieurs to do better.
“I have never heard a negative word get out of his mouth. When your trainer is such a character and the way he inspires everyone even when we went out for 111, he just said:” Ok, today our quisors have to do the work. I need really ardent spells today. “You know, automatically when players listen to such things from our coach, confidence automatically,” said simply, “said Wadhera at the post-match press conference.
“I think it really appeared on the field and I think everything is because of his talks of encouragement and also of Shreyas Iyer. The way he loads everyone, I think he is one of the best captains that I have ever played. He is really great with what he does with the bat and the way he capita. The way he heads the team is really great,” he added.
Wadhera also said that the team was still confident to defend the low scoring and also praised Yuzvendra Chahal for his winning fate of the match.
“We never short of Confidence. We KNEW that Our Bowlers we are very capable of Doing Well here and the way Chahal, Arshdeep, Marco Jansen and (Xavier) Bartlett, playing His First Game, The Way They Performed Was Really Commitable. Even if the drums Didn’t Have A Great Day With The Bat, I Think They Really Compensated for It, “Said Wadhera.
“You can just see from his statistics today, by picking up the four crucial counters and although the left -handers are there, he brought Rinku out, which was a really crucial counter for us. I think that the way he used his rhythm while wide and slower bowling and also mixing his rhythm. So I think it has added.
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