‘People felt that ….’ Ricky Potting told the secret of Punjab Kings success

New Delhi. After years of failure, Ricky Ponting, who was the architect of the change in the Punjab Kings team, which is performing brilliantly in the IPL this year, believes that the team’s strategy in the auction and the performance of the ‘unaccounted’ players helped to flourish his plan to play differently in this session. Punjab Kings have made it to the playoffs for the first time since 2014. Punjab’s team topped the league stage.

He said, “We started the auction itself when only two unaccounted players were retained, for which there was a lot of criticism. People felt that we made a mistake but I was very clear where I want to take the team and we should choose the right player for that. Till now the session has been good and in the last match against Mumbai Indians, six unkapped players were in the team who performed brilliantly. We talked among ourselves that we have to live in the top two and we topped the league stage. Looks great. ”

He said, “I think there are four players who can play for India.” Before going to the auction, I watched Priyansh Arya’s videos for many hours and I wanted him in the team at all costs. Prabhasimran is just 24 years old and became the first unaccounted player to score the most runs in the history of IPL. Nihal Vadhera can also play for India in the middle order. At the same time, Shashank Singh’s strike rate and the skill of hitting fours sixes at the end of the innings makes him useful players.

Ponting has won the title with a player and head coach Mumbai Indians, while in seven seasons, he was the coach of Delhi Capitals. Before joining Punjab Kings, he had clearly told the owners that they need full control in the team operations. The results of giving them open exemption are revealed that the team performed so brilliantly. In a conversation with PTI before the IPL Playoff, Ponting said that along with joining the team, he had ensured that things would be different this time.