Shreyas Iyer, in his first season in control of the Punjab Kings, has taken the franchise to solely their first playoffs in 11 years. Iyer, who gained the championship final yr with KKR, can be eager to duplicate what MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma have achieved in the previous.
Shreyas Iyer has carried out the unthinkable. Iyer turned the primary captain in IPL historical past to be launched within the subsequent season after profitable the title. The 30-year-old, who was coming off main Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to their third title, selected to not be retained, reunited with Ricky Ponting, his former coach on the Delhi Capitals and now finds himself getting ready to scripting historical past. After being named the Punjab Kings skipper, Iyer has led the 2014 finalists from the entrance, scoring 500-plus runs within the season, whereas putting at 171 and has taken the staff alongside.
As the destiny would have it, Gujarat Titans misplaced their final couple of video games and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) too incurred an enormous loss in opposition to the Sunrisers Hyderabad to assist Punjab Kings have a shot at sealing the highest spot, which Iyer and Co with quite aplomb, beating the Mumbai Indians honest and sq. of their remaining league stage conflict. Punjab and RCB, each completed with 19 factors and can lock horns within the first qualifier within the playoffs, however with a greater NRR, the Kings completed on the high.
By advantage of the identical, Iyer turned solely the third captain in IPL historical past to take their staff to the highest of the factors desk within the league stage in back-to-back seasons. Rohit Sharma did it in 2019 and 2020 for the Mumbai Indians, whereas Hardik Pandya replicated it in 2022 and 2023 for the Gujarat Titans. Iyer led the Knight Riders to the highest spot final yr and now has carried out the identical with the Kings and have become the primary captain to do the identical with totally different groups in consecutive editions.
| Position | Team | Captain | Year |
| 1 | Mumbai Indians | Rohit Sharma | 2019 |
| 1 | Mumbai Indians | Rohit Sharma | 2020 |
| 1 | Gujarat Titans | Hardik Pandya | 2022 |
| 1 | Gujarat Titans | Hardik Pandya | 2023 |
| 1 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Shreyas Iyer | 2024 |
| 1 | Punjab Kings | Shreyas Iyer | 2025 |
A second consecutive IPL title will most actually put Iyer within the IPL historical past books, if he wasn’t already there. The first problem for the Kings within the playoffs can be RCB, who’re additionally chasing their first title.
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