Timesofindia.com in Ahmedabad: Shashank Singh, in an exclusive interview with Timesofindia.com, had given Shreyas Iyer a new nickname: “Captain Fantastic” by Punjab Kings. “He has his own loot, he has his own aura, and he supports his own instinct,” said Shashank, who had played with Iyer in the age group cricket in Mumbai, had to say about his Captain IPL.On Sunday, in a qualifier 2 hit by the rain, Shreyas Iyer showed everything that Shashank was talking about. He did not celebrate his half-century; He beat up with guarantee, and it seemed to calculate the pursuit in his mind. Chasing 204, Iyer, who is called “Sarpanch” (village chief) by fans of Punjab Kings, has taken care of. In the 13th above Bowled by Reece Topley, Shreyas hammered a triple of six, each better than the last.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Iyer (87 steps on 41 balls; 5x4s, 8x6s) guided the kings of Punjab to their first IPL final in 11 years. The Kings of Punjab beat the Mumbai Indians by five counters at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad.Who is this IPL player?The Punjab made a steering wheel from Priyansh Arya (20 out of 10 balls) and Josh Inglis n ° 3 (38 on 21 balls). Inglis, in particular, surrounded by Bumrah for 20 points in his first. Not every day, Bumrah gets this kind of treatment.But Iyer found a competent partner at Nehal Wadhera, who is called Yuvraj Singh of Ludhiana. Wadhera scored a 29 counterattack ball 48 and forged an 84-point stand for the fourth window in just 47 balls.
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Shreyas Iyer engraved his name in history books. He became the first IPL captain to take three different teams to the IPL final. Iyer had led the capitals of Delhi to the final in 2020, guided Kolkata Knight Riders on the title in 2024, and now directed the kings of Punjab. He is also the first captain to direct two different teams in the successive final.Without forgetting, the Mumbai Indians had never lost defending more than 200 years, and now they have been eliminated by doing it with an end.
Earlier, it seemed that the team led by Shreyas Iyer had lost its vapor after finishing at the top of the IPL dots table. They were breathtaking by a royal Challengers Bengaluru, heated red, in the qualifier 1 in Mullanpur, then they gave too many gifts against the Indians of Mumbai in qualify 2.On Tuesday, they will have the chance to take revenge on the humiliation they had to face in front of their crowd.Shreyas Iyer won the tower of the medal and, because of the weather, chose to move. The match was delayed for a few hours because of the rain, but it finally started, and there was no reduction in the Overs.The Mumbai Indians went up on a power full of power by Jonny Bairstow and Tilak Varma, and a late development of Naman Dhir, to publish an imposing 203/6.Unless the first too much made a bowling alley by Arshdeep Singh, the Punjab’s outfit looked completely the sea. They were capricious with the ball and abyssal on the ground. If that was not enough, the PBKs were then penalized for a slow pace, and an additional field player was brought into the circle for the last two Overs.Rohit Sharma obtained a stay in the second after Azmatullah Omarzai left a difficult chance. It was not an easy socket because it had to go a long way to go to reach it; He put both but could not control him.The abandoned catch did not cost much PBKS, because Marcus Stoinis obtained the prized counter and celebrated it by feeling his chest, which was probably the only time the players of the Punjab celebrated with jubilation.Bairstow has not wasteped time freeing his brand assault. He brought the attack to the quakers of the Punjab from the start, swiveling the boundary strings and race at 38 out of 24 deliveries. However, while the ground began to grasp and slow down, PBKS managed to retreat. Vyshak Vijaykumar gave the breakthrough, removing Bairstow with a ball at the joint.The experienced duo of Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav stopped the ship. Their 72 -point partnership for the third window came at a quick pace. The two strikers seemed to control, mixing prudence with the assault, before the Punjab strikes at a vital moment – just before and after the second strategic dead time.
Yuzvendra Chahal, who played the match with an injection in his bowling hand, was sent to a leather hunt by Suryakumar Yadav, but the veteran spinner won the battle. Suryakumar continued to play the scan against Chahal, but the leggie had the last laugh. He was a little pushed into the air; Suryakumar went down to his knees and cut him off from Slog, but did not get the elevation, and Nehal Wadhera caught him closely halfway.In a sudden touch, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma were rejected for identical scores of 44, which stopped the momentum of Mi just when it seemed that they would exceed 220.Naman Dir’s late blitz has provided the last time. The swashbuckling shot broke a Quickfire 37 on only 18 balls, swiveling the off-turn and cleaning the strings to perfection. His blow assured that Mi crossed the psychological brand of 200 points.