Ricky Ponting reveals how Yuzvendra Chahal injured himself with the winner of Bowl Match

Five games, 2 counters and a saving rate of 11.13, Yuzvendra Chahal was not even close to his best. He seemed disconnected, rhythm and depth. But the kings of Punjab supported it. If Ricky Ponting had not supported him for the PBKS VS KKR match, they would have been on the losing side because it was the magic fate of Chahal who helped them to defend the lowest total in the history of the IPL. Ponting revealed that Chahal had an injury and he had just passed a fitness test before the match.

“”How good a bowling alley was good! He actually had a fitness test before the match today with his shoulder injury he resumed in the last match and I caught him from the warm -up and I looked him in the eyes and I said: “My friend are you fine? He said: “Coach, I’m right 100%, let me go”, “,” Ricky Ponting declared after the epic defense in Mullanpur.

Magic Sort of Yuzvendra Chahal

After having opted for 1/56 in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Yuzvendra Chahal was with confidence. The RS 18-Crora spinner had a terrible outing in IPL 2025. With only 111 points on the board, the kings of Punjab did not even give him a chance to redeem himself. But Chahal killed the match on his head.

Chahal came to the bowl in the 8th, with the probability of the victory of Kolkata Knight Riders affecting 97.81%. In the fourth ball of the end, he trapped Ajinkya Rahane LBW. While the reruns showed that Rahane had not been released, but that the KKR captain chose not to revise, the counter remained and that’s where everything took place.

He returned for the 10th, rejecting Angkrish Raghuvanshi who struck the 37. With the turn he obtained from the surface, Chahal was difficult to play. Despite two counters, KKR was still in the match with only 40 points to win. Between Maxwell trapped Venkatesh Iyer LBW.

While Yuzvendra Chahal returned for the 12th, he put a leash on KKR with two counters. First of all, he rejected Rinku Singh, who was trying to beat his turn and went down on the slopes, only to be perplexed. In the next delivery, he withdrew Ramandeep Singh for a golden duck when he was taken in the slides by Shreyas Iyer. KKR came down to 76/7.

“The heart rate is still up there. I am now 50 years old and I do not need more games like these. Defending 112, with 16 points in our sleeves. We have made guys halfway that these very small prosecution, like these, are sometimes the most difficult,” Said Ponting.

‘Best victory I have ever had’

While in the presentation Russell kept the hope in life with an 11-ball 17, Marco Jansen and Arshdeep Singh assured that KKR had returned empty-handed. The Punjab Kings won the match in 15.1 Overs while KKR fell for 95. Ponting called him a final match of the season and the best victory he ever had. If Ponting says it was the best victory, you have to believe. Ponting has won a lot of victories in his international career as a player and as capacity.

“Even if we had lost this match, I could not have been proud of the way we made the second half. Victories like these are always the softest, and if you can do it, then you should be a victory as good as most guys were involved, and I trained a lot of matches in IPL, and that could be the best victory I have ever had”, ” Ponting told the post-match.