Ricky Ponting: The match was played between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders on last night (16 April) in IPL 2025. KKR lost by 16 runs in this match. Yuzvendra Chahal was the hero of victory for Punjab. He had changed the attitude of the match with 4 wickets and the match was completely in the camp of Punjab. But now Punjab Kings coach Ricky Ponting has made a big disclosure about Yuzvendra Chahal. He also said that his heartbeat had increased.

What is the whole matter ..

Ricky Ponting revealed about Yuzvendra Chahal

Punjab Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 16 runs in an exciting match. Chahal took 4 important wickets in this match. Due to which the team won. But now Ricky Ponting has said a lot about him. He has told that Chahal was injured. But he has still decided to play the match.

Everyone was surprised to hear Ricky Ponting. Former Australian veteran told that

"In fact, he had a fitness test before the game, in the last match he suffered a shoulder injury and I took him out of the warm-up and said that you are fine? He said coach I am 100 percent right, let me go there, yes what was that spell of bowling. Even if we would have lost the game, we could not have played in the second half, we could not do our batting, but we saw that we were too bad. Initially took the wicket and what we were missing was, it was a little faith in the ball and a little energy in the field and everyone saw it tonight.

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Ricky ponting praised Chahal, I am 50 years old, heartbeat ...

Ricky Ponting, Head Coach of Punjab Kings, praised Yuzvendra Chahal. Then he said about the exciting match that he is 50 years old. In this way, it is not right for them. He said that

Heartbeat had increased. I am 50 years old and are not good for me than such. After the first inning, we talked among ourselves that such small scores sometimes get defended. However, there were many people who did not believe that we would be able to do this.

I have coached a lot of IPL matches, but this win is the best. We batted very poorly in this match.

Wins by 16 runs in low scoring match

Punjab Kings won by 16 runs in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders, while this was a low scoring match. Punjab captain Shreyas won the toss and decided to bat first. But the entire team was all out for 111 runs in 15.3 overs. In return, KKR embraced the defeat by lighting the easy -looking match. KKR's entire team was all out for 95 runs.

After the match, Yuzvendra Chahal was adjudged the Player of the Match.