Punjab kings skipper shreyas Iyer was subbed off at innings break during the IPL 2025 Match Against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday. Shreyas, who was suffering from a finger injury, was subbed offer scoring 30 off 25 delivers, did not field at all during pbks’ bowling. While shreyas was not on the field, that did not stop the Indian Cricket Team Batter from Getting Involved. During the match, he was seen having a conversation with fielders at the boundary line and even helping stand-in skipper shashank Singh with the field set-up. Pbks ended up winning the encounter by 10 runs.
Shreyas iyer is giving regular inputs to the players from boundary rope
– Injured but giving Everything for his team.
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Left-Arm Spinner Harpreet Brar Bowled A Match-Turning Spel after Nehal Wadhera And Shashank Singh Made Made Made Made Made Bruising Fiftees as Punjab Kings Edgeed Closer to An IPL Playoff Birth Win A 10-REF Rajasthan royals here on Sunday.
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Brar, who came in as a substitute for skipper shreyas Iyer-Possibly unwell due to extreme heat-was introduced in the fifth over and the left-Arm Spinner Walked AWAY with an Impressive with an Impressive In Four overs, helping pbks to restruct rr to 209/7 in the chase of 220.
The Punjab Side Had Earlier Made 219 for five riding on an unbeated on 59 off 30 deliveries (5×4, 3×6) by Shashank and Wadhera (70, 37B, 5×4, 5×6).
With this win, pbks (nrr: +0.38) Climbed to 17 points and they are second on the table behind leaders Royal Challengers Bengaluru (17 points, +0.48)
The ricky ponting-coached side needs just one more point to secure a playoff berth for the first time since 2014.
Brar, who mixed up his angles, trajectory, and pace with precision, played a big part in that.
His scalps inclined the 14-year-old sensation vaibhav Suryavanshi (40 off 15; 4×4, 4×6) and Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, Who Had Launched a brutal assault up next with his (50 off 24).
Togeether they flee off the blocks with a stand off 76 runs in just 4.1 overs. Azmatullah Omarzai (2/44) then landed a double blow, sending back skipper sanju samson (20 off 16) and Shimron Hetmyer (11 off 12), as RR’s Chase Lost Steam.
Dhruv Jurel (53 off 31 balls; 3×4, 4×6) Hit form to score his second fifty of the season but it went in vain as marco jansen (2/41 in three overs) removed Him and Wanindu has foundu hairsaran Balls in the last over to end their chase.
(With pti inputs)
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