Punjab Kings recorded its highest score of the 2025 Indian Premier (IPL) season, putting 236 on the board against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). The tastes of Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer and Shashank Singh contributed the most to the bat, adding scores of 91, 45 and 33 respectively, but another striker whose camée helped the team to put a resounding total on the table was Josh Inglis. The Australian had not done much with the bat before the match in Dharamsala, where he was promoted in place n ° 3. After the match, the head coach of the PBKS, Ricky Ponting, revealed that the decision to change the role of Inglis was taken by the skipper Shreyas Iyer.
“It was actually a decision that the captain proposed, and Shreyas thought, on this kind of pitch, against this bowling attack, it would be the right thing. If a counter fell early, to send Inglis. Revealed at the press conference.
Inglis scored 30 points of only 14 balls after Priyansh Arya left for a 4-ball 1. Inglis scored 4 six during his cameo, giving the tone to the performance of Punjab with the bat. While LSG was preparing against Priyansh, Prabsimran and Iyer at the top of the Order of Strikers, Inglis came out of the program.
“So, yes, that’s what the captain wanted to do. It also allows us to have, you know, Iyer, Wadhera and Shashank in the middle of the sleeves, which we thought we were crucial for us too in the game tonight.
“Once we left in a [flier] You know, I think we were 70 years old at the end of the power game, all the time went with us, and you see with our striker, we have someone like Azmatullah at the number, so we really beat, really deep, it allows our first order to play with a lot of freedom, and they did it tonight. “”
During the press conference, Ponting also revealed that he had at least supported one from Prabhsimran Singh and Priyansh Arya to get a hundred in the match against LSG. Prabhsimran came quite close, marking 91 out of 48 balls in the match.
“He (Prabhsimran) and Priyansh told us about great departures in the tournament. They both have today, had both made 350 points each in the tournament. I somehow challenged the two operators of the team’s meeting today for a little further.
“With our group of strikers, we have just given a truly clear direction of how we want them to understand how important the first -rate partnerships are in this competition, and we know that if Priyansh and Prabh meet, they can be ultra destructive. Priyansh mainly against faster Bowlers, and PRABH’s ultimate a little better against the fast and the other.
“It is a very good, a very good group. This is why when we sat down as a group, by directing ourselves, thinking of our auction strategy and the players that we wanted to keep, I think you are starting to see why I was so eager to keep Prabhsimran. He is a very good young player, and he very kept succeeding in this team, and that has shown the means that he played this evening.”
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