There is not much time left for the retention names to be announced for the Indian Premier League 2025. By October 31, all the teams have to submit the list of retained players to the IPL Governing Council. Well, it is not yet clear which players will be retained and which are the big players who may not be retained. It is being said that Shreyas Iyer is also one of the names and there are reports that Punjab Kings are eyeing him. If media reports are to be believed, the new head coach of Punjab Kings, Ricky Ponting, wants to make Shreyas Iyer the captain of Punjab at any cost.
Will Shreyas Iyer become the captain of Punjab Kings?
Ricky Ponting and Shreyas Iyer have worked together before also. At that time Iyer was the captain of Delhi Capitals and Ricky Ponting was the head coach of the team. Iyer became the captain of the team in the year 2019 and he played this role till 2021. In the year 2020, he was also successful in taking Delhi Capitals to the finals under his captaincy. But after the year 2021, Delhi removed Iyer from the captaincy and in his place Rishabh Pant was given the captaincy of the team. After this, Iyer joined Kolkata Knight Riders and last season, under his captaincy, KKR became IPL champion for the third time.
Iyer has leadership quality
Shreyas Iyer has amazing leadership quality. This player has captained Mumbai and also made KKR the IPL champion during his captaincy. The question is whether KKR team will release its champion captain. Because if this happens then Punjab Kings would obviously want to bring Iyer in their team. Punjab Kings team has never won IPL and Preity Zinta’s team needs a good captain. Last season, Shikhar Dhawan was the captain of the team and Jitesh Sharma took over this responsibility in the middle season. But this time Punjab Kings will need a full time captain and believe me, Iyer fits the bill.
