'My bat is the prize': Shreyas Iyer reveals dressing-room contest

NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer was each smiles erstwhile helium came for the post-match presumption aft his broadside registered a large 54-run triumph implicit Lucknow Super Giants successful Mullanpur connected Sunday.

With this win, Punjab Kings jumped to the apical of the array with 5 wins successful 6 matches, 11 points, and a nett tally complaint of +1.420.After the monolithic victory, Iyer revealed that a light-hearted six-hitting contention wrong the dressing country has been the crushed down Punjab Kings' batting blitz.Devastating batters Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly made a mockery of the Lucknow Super Giants bowlers and powered their squad to a mammoth 254/7 successful 20 overs.

Arya and Connolly smashed 93 and 87 respectively arsenic PBKS posted 254/7 - the highest full of this IPL season. The duo added 182 runs successful conscionable 13.2 overs for a hugely entertaining second-wicket stand, taking PBKS past Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s 250/3 - the erstwhile highest full this season.

In reply, LSG managed 200/5 and suffered a 54-run defeat."Exceptional partnership, immoderate shots were jaw-dropping. Hitting accelerated bowlers disconnected the back-foot straight.

Composure successful the mediate overs was sensational," Iyer said during the post-match presentation.

"Was talking with Cooper and Arya, said let's vie for the astir no. of sixes. Prize is my bat, doesn't marque consciousness but anticipation it'll marque america happy. When you fto players be, I deliberation they conscionable deliver. That's our mantra.""I don't archer them however to spell astir their circumstantial innings, they person their patterns set. Ricky Ponting motivates conscionable earlier the game, I spot in, boys travel successful and deliver."Punjab Kings volition adjacent look Delhi Capitals connected April 25.