Tom Moody Credits Ponting & Shreyas Iyer For Punjab Kings' Success In IPL 2025

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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 22:31 IST

With 15 points aft 11 matches played truthful far, Punjab Kings are 3rd successful the IPL 2025 points array and conscionable a triumph distant from a spot successful the playoffs.

Shreyas Iyer is PBKS skipper and Ricky Ponting is the caput manager of Mohali-based franchise. (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)

Former Australian cricketer Tom Moody, who has besides served arsenic caput manager of the Sri Lankan men’s cricket team, Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad successful the past, has credited skipper Shreyas Iyer and caput manager Ricky Ponting for Punjab Kings’ ace amusement successful IPL 2025. Punjab Kings person won 7 retired of 11 IPL matches played truthful acold successful the ongoing season, and with 15 points, they are 3rd successful the points table. The Mohali-based franchise, which is co-owned by Bollywood histrion Preity Zinta, needs to triumph 1 of their remaining 3 league matches to suffice for the IPL playoffs for the archetypal clip successful 11 years.

In the 2025 variation of the world’s richest franchise league, PBKS players person impressed with their performances successful each 3 departments of the game, and according to Moody, the recognition for PBKS’s occurrence goes to Iyer and Ponting.

The erstwhile Australian skipper was signed arsenic caput manager by PBKS successful August 2024 aft helium parted ways with Delhi Capitals successful July past year. In the IPL 2025 mega auction, PBKS signed Iyer for Rs 26.75 crore. The 30-year-old cricketer from Mumbai is the 2nd astir costly subordinate successful IPL history.

During an ESPN ESPNCricinfo amusement erstwhile asked what changed for Punjab Kings successful IPL 2025, Moody said, “Leadership, elemental arsenic that. You’ve got a important fig successful Ricky Ponting, who has that presence, and helium came successful determination and evidently made it precise wide during the process of him being engaged arsenic the manager that you’re going to bash it my way. And I deliberation that cleared a spot of a way of possibly different distractions that whitethorn person travel successful historically with Punjab that we’ve seen and been frustrated with."

“And I deliberation the recruitment of the captain, Shreyas Iyer, who is idiosyncratic that’s precise acquainted with Ricky Ponting – they’ve worked good unneurotic – truthful I thought that was a truly astute play," helium added.

According to Moody, Iyer has impressed him with his enactment qualities, and helium feels helium has a akin relaxed attack successful captaincy similar MS Dhoni.

“One of the astir important things is enactment successful T20 cricket is not lone the beingness of the person but conscionable their strategical benignant of beingness retired successful the mediate and the calmness retired successful the middle. And Iyer, to me, is idiosyncratic that has truly been impressive. How calm helium seems to beryllium retired successful the mediate and however helium seems to empower the radical astir him. And I’m not comparing him to MS Dhoni, but MS Dhoni is the golden stamp of that, and Iyer seems to person a akin benignant of rather a calm, relaxed attack retired there."

Punjab Kings volition adjacent instrumentality the tract connected Sunday (May 18). Their 12th league lucifer is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine Sawai Mansingh Stadium successful Jaipur against Rajasthan Royals.

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