Shreyas Iyer
In the qualifier-2 of IPL 2025, Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets and qualified for the final, where they will face the RCB team. In the match, Mumbai scored 203 runs while batting first, after which Punjab easily achieved targets thanks to Shreyas Iyer’s half -century. Apart from him, Nehal Vadhera also batted strongly in the match.
Shreyas Iyer has taken three teams to IPL so far
Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, the Punjab Kings team performed strongly and qualified for the playoffs while staying number one in the points table. Now under his captaincy, the team has reached the finals. Earlier, Delhi Capitals entered the finals in IPL 2020 and Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2024 under the captaincy of Iyer. Iyer has become the first captain in the IPL to bring three separate teams to the finals. Nobody could do this before them.
Shreyas Iyer scored a strong half -century
Prabhasimran Singh (6 runs) may not play a big innings for the Punjab Kings team, but besides them, Jose English, Shreyas Iyer and Nehal Vadhera presented a sample of good batting. English scored 20 runs in an over of deadly bowler Jaspreet Bumrah. He contributed a total of 38 runs in the match. Vadhera scored 48 runs in 29 balls. He took the Punjab team close to the target. Shreyas Iyer stayed at one end of the crease. He completed his half -century in 27 balls. Iyer scored 87 runs in 41 balls, including five fours and 8 sixes. The Mumbai bowlers flopped badly and could not do well. Ashwini Kumar took the most two wickets for the team.
Mumbai scored 200 plus due to Surya
The start for the Mumbai Indians team was not good, when Rohit Sharma was dismissed for just 8 runs. After this, Johnny Bairstow (38 runs) and Tilak Verma tried to stay on the wicket for some time and shared 51 runs. After Bairstow was dismissed, Suryakumar Yadav took over the responsibility of scoring runs. He scored 44 runs in 26 balls, including four fours and three sixes. Tilak Verma scored 44 runs. Finally Naman Dhir scored 37 runs. Due to these players, the Mumbai team managed to cross the score of 200 runs.
