Ricky Ponting has slapped for the benefit of foreigners over Indian players: 'Don't think that PBK's IPL can win' | Mint

Former Australian captain and current IPL franchise coach Ricky Ponting once again came under fire for his strategy to promote the Australian against the in-form Indian cricketers in Saturday’s match against Kolkata Knight Riders. In the important meeting, PBKS opener Prabhsimaran Singh (83 out of 49 balls) and Priyansh Arya (69 out of 35 balls) took their team past the 120 run in just under 12. After the wicket of Priyansh Arya at the end of the 12th, Prabhsimran fell in 15th place. While Arya was replaced by Shreyas Iyer, the choice of number 4 batsman for PBKs was confusing, as the outside shape Glenn Maxwell came to bat instead of Shashank Singh or Nehal Wadhera. Maxwell continued to struggle this season and eventually fell in 17th place on Varun Chakravarthy for 7 of 8 balls. Even after Maxwell’s wicket, PBKS did not send in the Indian batsmen, but rely on the South African Marco Jansen (3 out of 7 balls) and Australian Josh Inglis (11 of 6 balls). Former cricketer is responding to PBKS’s Bizzare Strategy: Former Indian cricketer Manoj Tiwary was not impressed with PBK’s strategy to put foreign players in place of the Indian batsmen in the form, and so far went to say that the franchise could not win the IPL as a result of a “lack of confidence”. With the captain Iyer batting at the time, the blame for the decision to play foreign players is squarely on coach Ricky Ponting. In a post about X (formerly Twitter), Tiwary wrote: ‘My feeling of the guts says that the Punjab team will not be able to win the #ipl trophy this season, because what I saw today when they bat, the coach was not the Indian informed fighters Nehal Wadera and Shasank Singh, but he trusts his foreign players, but it is a lack of confidence in the Indian players. of them, regardless of qualification in the top two. “This is especially not the first time Ponting has been involved in IPL Controversy after being previously criticized for selecting 5 Australian players (from the 8 foreign player -quota) during the IPL 2025 Mega Auction. Among the Australian talent available at the franchise is: Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie and Xavier Bartlett.