The Punjab Kings, headed by Shreyas Iyer, faced their first defeat of IPL 2025 against Rajasthan Royals. Maharaja Yadvindra Singh of Mullanpur clashed between the two teams at the International Cricket Stadium, in which Punjab won the toss and invited Rajasthan to bat. With the help of Yashasvi Jaiswal’s half -century, the team was able to set a target of 206 runs. In response, Punjab scored 155 runs and lost the match by 50 runs. In such a situation, let us know what the captain Shreyas Iyer has to say on this defeat?
Shreyas Iyer accepted these players responsible for defeat?
/cricket-addictor-hindi/media/media_files/2025/04/05/L4prldZaPsmjuAv17hoM.png)
Talking about the defeat of Punjab Kings in the 18th match of IPL 2025, Captain Shreyas Iyer said that if the players had good partnerships and slow batting, the team might have chased. He claimed that,
“I felt that we would give around 180-185 runs. It would be a good total that we could chase. We gave some additional runs, and could not perform according to our plans. Glad that it (defeat) was fine in the beginning of the season. The pitch was fine for batting, it was a little slow. We were a little slow. That we became more aggressive. “
Disappointed with players’ performance!
Shreyas Iyer believes that players in batting will have to focus on forming a partnership. Also, you have to try not to lose wickets continuously. The captain told,
Got a lot to learn from this match. There was no dew today. We cannot make it a reason. We have to go back and watch the video and understand where we could not work properly with our bowling. We have to focus on making partnerships in batting. We lost wickets continuously. It is not easy for the new batsman to be set.
The pool tied to the praise of Nehal Vadhera
While veteran Punjab Kings experienced against Rajasthan Royals failed to perform well with the bat, 24 -year -old young batsman Nehal Wadhera tried to win the 62 -run combative innings game team. In such a situation, while talking on his innings, Captain Shreyas Iyer said,
“(About Nehal Vadhera) under pressure. He took a little time, understood the situation and attacked loose balls. It is just a third match, in the beginning it is a little difficult to be a little difficult so that you can wake up and are happy that it happened now. We have to go back and work on our plans and make a strong return to the next match.”
Also read: CSK vs DC: How will Chennai pitch, do not rain somewhere, know the game of pitch-season in the match of Delhi-Chennai
ALSO READ: “Have you eaten money from LSG”, Tilak Verma, who scored 25 runs in 23 balls, flew on social media, accused of fixing