Shreyas Iyer become captain of Punjab Kings the season of 2025 IPL

India and Mumbai hitter Shreyas Iyer, the second-most costly player in the player sell off, has been delegated commander by Punjab Lords for IPL 2025. The declaration was made on Sunday night on unscripted television show Large Chief, where Iyer showed up as a visitor close by PBKS partners Yuzvendra Chahal and Shashank Singh. "I'm respected that the group has rested its confidence in me. I'm anticipating working again with mentor [Ricky] Ponting," Iyer was cited as saying in a delivery. "The group major areas of strength for looks, an incredible blend of potential and demonstrated entertainers. I desire to reimburse the confidence shown by the administration to convey our lady title." "Shreyas has an extraordinary psyche for the game. His demonstrated capacities as commander will empower the group to convey," PBKS lead trainer Ricky Ponting said. "Shreyas has an extraordinary psyche for the game. His demonstrated abilities as skipper will empower the group to convey. I have partaken in my experience with Iyer in the past in IPL, and I anticipate working with him once more. With his administration and the ability in the crew, I'm amped up for the seasons ahead." Iyer, 30, is among just eight chiefs to have won the IPL, an accomplishment he achieved by driving Kolkata Knight Riders, whom he drove from 2022 to 2024, to the title the year before. PBKS, who had the most grounded handbag at the super sale for IPL 2025, outbid Delhi Capitals, one more establishment keeping watch for a chief, to sack Iyer for INR 26.75 crore (USD 3.18 million approx). For a couple of moments, Iyer was the most costly player in IPL history. Be that as it may, Lucknow Super Monsters picked Rishabh Gasp for INR 27 crore (USD 3.21 mn approx) to make him the most costly purchase at an IPL closeout. PBKS will be Iyer's third establishment in the IPL after DC, with whom he made his presentation in 2015, and KKR. Halfway through IPL 2018, DC named Iyer as their commander and made the end of the season games in every one of the following three seasons remembering an other participants finish for 2020. He likewise drove Mumbai to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Prize this season, and completed fourth among the competition's driving run-getters with 345 runs, including hundred years, in nine innings at a strike pace of 188.52 and a normal of more than 49. Iyer will rejoin with previous Australia chief Ricky Ponting, who was delegated PBKS lead trainer for quite a long time. The pair had an effective organization as mentor commander for DC, which Ponting said was a vital variable behind PBKS offering so furiously for Iyer at the sale. Ponting likewise dropped solid clues about delegating Iyer as commander after the super sale. "I needed to work with Shreyas," Ponting told Star Sports after the bartering. "I've worked with him previously and he is an extraordinary fellow and an incredible player. He'll be an extraordinary pioneer for our group assuming we choose to go that way, which I'm almost certain we most likely will. Also, clearly, he was the title winning commander last year. So there are bunches of extraordinary things about carrying him to Punjab."