Punjab Kings confirmed their top-two spot within the ongoing IPL season with an impressive win towards the Mumbai Indians. It was Shashank Singh, who assured and predicted that Punjab Kings will qualify in high two on a Podcast a few months in the past and right here we’re with PBKS within the first qualifier.

Jaipur:

Punjab Kings batter Shashank Singh credited head coach Ricky Ponting and captain Shreyas Iyer for bringing a change within the workforce tradition, which has borne fruit with the facet qualifying for high two within the playoffs within the ongoing IPL season. Since taking the cost of ‘Project Punjab’, Ponting was adamant in altering a number of issues as to how the workforce is run, how gamers and everybody from help employees to the media crew to the bags handlers are introduced on the identical web page and operating the workforce how he wished to and it appears it has labored.

Shashank Singh, who had a little bit of Brian Lara rubbing onto him throughout his Sunrisers Hyderabad days, has develop into an inseparable a part of the Punjab Kings’ facet and talked about that Ricky Ponting joined the checklist of his favorite 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 stated on the press convention after PBKS’ win towards the Mumbai Indians in Jaipur.

Shashank talked about that its cliched that a lot of the gamers say it when a brand new chief and a coach come into the facet, altering sure issues however when pressed onto it, Shashank went into it explaining the identical a bit extra. 

“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 additional added.

The Ponting-Iyer reunion has develop into one of many tales of the season and the IPL. The duo helped Delhi make their solely IPL last ever and now have taken Punjab Kings to inside touching distance of their maiden trophy. The Kings are set to play the primary qualifier in entrance of their dwelling followers.