Shreyas Iyer is experiencing the most effective of the highs as captain as he continues to steer his teams in course of rivals victories. Having gained the IPL for the Kolkata Knight Riders ultimate 12 months and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Iyer’s Punjab Kings ensured a top-two finish for IPL 2025.

Jaipur:

Shreyas Iyer resides the daylights out of his time as captain in house T20 competitions. The championship-winning captain with the Kolkata Knight Riders throughout the IPL ultimate 12 months is on one of the simplest ways to replicating the heroics with the Punjab Kings this time. Iyer fittingly scored the match-winning six for his side in the direction of the Mumbai Indians, confirming a top-two finish for his side as a result of the Punjab Kings had been too good on Monday in Jaipur of their closing league sport and might now be off to their home venue in Mullanpur as they await the outcomes of the LSG vs RCB to know their Thursday opponent.

It was a masterful chase from Josh Inglis and Priyansh Arya with a 109-run partnership for the second wicket, seeing their employees by the use of sooner than Iyer accomplished it with a couple of sixes. While it was his forty ninth win as a captain throughout the IPL, Iyer completed 2,500 runs being a skipper throughout the occasion. Iyer moreover reached the milestone of 100 sixes as a captain throughout the IPL whereas registering 500-plus runs throughout the ongoing season at a strike value of 170. Iyer turned the sixth captain to hit 100 sixes throughout the IPL whereas moreover turning into solely the second PBKS captain after KL Rahul (twice) to complete 500 runs in a season.

Most sixes as captain in IPL

223 – MS Dhoni (CSK/RPS), in 204 innings

168 – Virat Kohli (RCB), in 142 innings
158 – Rohit Sharma (MI), in 157 innings
109 – David Warner (DC/SRH), in 83 innings
105 – KL Rahul (PBKS/LSG), in 64 innings
101 – Shreyas Iyer (DC/KKR/PBKS), in 83 innings

This is the third time that the Kings will finish throughout the excessive two in an IPL season after 2008 and 2014. While they misplaced the semi-final throughout the inaugural model in the direction of the Chennai Super Kings, PBKS reached the final word in 2014 sooner than shedding to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). Now the Kings have an opportunity to do what no completely different Punjab squad has achieved throughout the earlier 17 editions.

Punjab Kings will possible be affected by Marco Jansen’s departure, with the tall Proteas seamer set to go away the camp to prepare for the World Test Championship (WTC) closing and due to this fact, purchased a sport into Kyle Jamieson sooner than the huge ultimate week.

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