Manoj tiwary allegation on ricky ponting: Punjab Kings, led by head coach Ricky Ponting and captain Shreyas Iyer, have performed brilliantly in IPL 2025 so far. But former Indian cricketer Manoj Tiwari feels that the pair will not be able to get the title to Punjab Kings. Let me tell you, Punjab Kings have not yet won a single IPL title.

Punjab Kings have so far performed brilliantly in IPL 2025. Punjab has 11 points after 5 wins and three defeats in 9 matches and is fourth in the points table. Punjab remains in the playoff race. The 43rd match of IPL 2025 was played between Punjab and Kolkata on Saturday and Manoj Tiwari said that Ricky Ponting has more confidence in not Indian players but more on foreign players and due to this Punjab will not win the title even after coming to the top-2.

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The pair of Prabhasimran Singh and Priyansh Arya made Punjab Kings a bang in the match against Kolkata. Both shared a 120 -run partnership for the first wicket. However, Punjab, who had scored 160 for one wicket in 14.3 overs, was able to score 201 runs for four wickets after 20 overs. Punjab opted to send local stars Shashank Singh and Nehal Vadhera to Marco Jenson and Glenn Maxwell. While Jenson was dismissed for 3 runs off 7 balls, Maxwell’s poor form continued and he was dismissed for 7 runs.

Tiwari wrote on social media X for more trusting Ponting’s foreign players, “My gut feeling says that the Punjab team will not win the IPL Trophy in this season because when he was batting today, I saw that the coach did not send Indian inforous batsmen Nehal Vadhera and Shashank Singh, but they did not trust their foreign players, but they did not trust the Indian players and did not have to trust the Indian players in the lower order. She appeared. If they continue to move forward in this way, the title will remain away from them despite making a place in the top two. ” Let me tell you, Punjab made it to the IPL final for the last time 11 years ago.

My gut feeling says that Punjab Team will not be able to win the #IPL Trophy this season beCause what i saw today when they were batting

– Manoj Tiwary (@Tiwarymanoj) April 26, 2025

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Match canceled due to rain

A great opening partnership of Punjab Kings and a huge score of rain fell. The Indian Premier League (IPL) was canceled without any conclusion with the Punjab Kings with Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens here on Saturday night in 2025. Punjab Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. There was a brilliant opening partnership of 120 runs between young Priyansh Arya and explosive Prabhasimran Singh. Thanks to the brilliant batting of both the openers, Punjab Kings built a mountain of 201 runs on a pitch that was said to be slow by both teams.

But as soon as Kolkata openers landed on the field to chase the target. Suddenly it started raining with strong winds, due to which the players had to go out of the field only after one over of the second innings. Despite the best efforts of the ground staff, the match was eventually canceled after a delay of more than an hour. Both teams had to be content with each point. However, where Punjab Kings looked happy with the performance of their batsmen today, the result was also disappointed with not coming to an end.

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