Former player Manoj Tiwary has accused the punjab Kings team of neglecting indian players and giving importance to foreign players. He has complained incessantly that punjab Kings coach Ricky Ponting has changed the batting order without trusting the indian players. punjab Kings made a huge change in the 2025 IPL series. Only two players from that team were retained. All the other players were removed and a brand new team was built in the auction. Ricky Ponting was appointed as the coach of the team. shreyas iyer was appointed as the captain. Under the leadership of these two, the punjab Kings team has been performing well this year. It has faced 5 wins and 3 losses in the 9 matches it has played so far. Yesterday's match against kolkata Knight Riders was abandoned due to rain, so they are in the fourth position in the points table with a total of 11 points, having also received one point. Although the team has been playing well, it is being said that the indian players have not been given due importance in the team.
 During the match against kolkata Knight Riders, Prabsimran Singh and Priyansh arya came out as the usual openers. shreyas iyer came out in the third row. Nehal Vadra and shashank Singh should have played in the fourth and fifth rows. However, the out-of-form Glenn Maxwell was brought in in the fourth row. All-rounder Marco Johnson played in the fifth row. Both of them scored a few runs. Maxwell scored 7 runs in 8 balls and Marco Johnson scored 3 runs in 7 balls. While the other batsmen were playing at a strike rate of 160 to 200, both of them wasted 15 balls. With punjab Kings scoring 201 runs in 20 overs, if both of them had not wasted balls and hit a few boundaries, they could have added 20 more runs.
 Manoj Tiwary, who has criticized this, has expressed his anger that punjab Kings will not win the IPL trophy this year because of the exclusion of indian players. In his post about this, he said, "This year punjab will not win the IPL trophy. Because today I saw their batting line-up. Their coach did not send the indian players Nehal Vadra and shashank Singh, who are playing well, to bat, but instead sent foreign players to bat. But they could not do their job properly. He does not have faith in the indian players. If this continues, the team will not win the trophy even if they are in the top two places in the points table."
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Sowmiya Sriram

27/04/2025 11:42 AM