Whose decision was it to send Josh English to number 3 against LSG? Coach Ricky Ponting opened secret
In the 54th match of IPL 2025 played in Dharamsala (Dharamsala), Punjab Kings (PBKS) defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 37 runs to win their seventh win in the tournament and at the moment they are second in the points table with 15 points. In this match, Punjab also took some decisions that surprised the fans and one of them was to send Josh English to number three in place of Shreyas Iyer.
The top three players of Punjab Kings Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer are wreaking havoc in IPL 2025 but Iyer did not come at number three in the match against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday and Australian wicketkeeper batsman Josh Engangis was launched to bat at number three. In this match, English also proved this decision right by playing a stormy innings of 30 runs in 14 balls while playing at number three.
Now after the match, Punjab Kings coach Ricky Ponting credited the move to captain Shreyas Iyer. Ponting said about the move in the press conference after the match, saying, “This was really the captain’s decision. He thought that on such a pitch, against that bowling attack, if the wicket falls quickly, it would be right to send Josh English. We felt that Mayank will bowl quickly. If you look at his way to bowl, if you look at the biggest shorts and this is usually the biggest bowling of English, as you have the biggest bowling, as you are the biggest. Saw the night. His bridge shot was amazing. ”
Speaking further, Ponting said, “After this we got a chance to include Iyer, Vadhera and Shashank in the middle of the innings, which was important for us in tonight match. Seeing English at number 3 was probably a surprising decision for LSG and it was beneficial for us. Since we have a strong batting line -up with Ajmatullah Umarjai, so we have a strong batting line -up and it allows us to open the night and This is what they did. “
