#Punjab Kings confirmed their top-two spot throughout the ongoing IPL season with a formidable win in direction of the #Mumbai Indians. It was #Shashank Singh, who assured and predicted that #Punjab Kings will qualify in excessive two on a Podcast a couple of months prior to now and proper right here we’re with PBKS throughout the first qualifier.
#Punjab Kings batter #Shashank Singh credited head coach #Ricky Ponting and captain Shreyas Iyer for bringing a change throughout the workforce custom, which has borne fruit with the aspect qualifying for top two throughout the playoffs throughout the ongoing IPL season. Since taking the price of ‘Project Punjab’, Ponting was adamant in altering a lot of points as to how the workforce is run, how avid gamers and everyone from assist staff to the media crew to the luggage handlers are launched on the an identical internet web page and working the workforce how he wished to and it seems it has labored.
#Shashank Singh, who had a bit little bit of Brian Lara rubbing onto him all through his Sunrisers Hyderabad days, has grow to be an inseparable part of the #Punjab Kings’ aspect and talked about that #Ricky Ponting joined the guidelines of his favourite coaches.
“By far the best team coach I’ve ever played. I’ve mentioned two names before, Brian Lara Sir, and now I’m mentioning #Ricky Ponting sir because he has changed the team culture, he has changed our mindset, he has changed our belief. So all those things, the credit has to be to him because obviously he’s the one who changed our perspective towards the game,” Shashank acknowledged on the press conference after PBKS’ win in direction of the #Mumbai Indians in #Jaipur.
Shashank talked about that its cliched that loads of the avid gamers say it when a model new chief and a coach come into the aspect, altering positive points nevertheless when pressed onto it, Shashank went into it explaining the an identical a bit additional.
“Caring about each other, respecting each other, feeling happy in each other’s performance. I mean, it’s very easy to say all these things and obviously you need to do this, you need to do that. But again, building it is a different thing. So he made sure that.
“Day 1, he and Shreyas, both told us, they will treat Yuzi Chahal, the most senior player, and a bus driver, the same. I mean, this is something and they’ve maintained this, they’ve maintained this that they’ve given the same respect to Yuzi Chahal, and they’ve given the same respect to our bus driver. So this says a lot about the team,” Shashank further added.
The Ponting-Iyer reunion has grow to be certainly one of many tales of the season and the IPL. The duo helped Delhi make their solely IPL final ever and now have taken #Punjab Kings to inside touching distance of their maiden trophy. The Kings are set to play the first qualifier in entrance of their dwelling followers.
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