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Shreyas Iyer entered an elite database successful IPL past connected Sunday aft becoming lone the 5th subordinate to skipper a broadside successful 100 matches successful the tournament.The milestone came during Punjab Kings’ IPL 2026 lucifer against Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium successful Dharamsala.Before Iyer, lone MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma had reached the 100-match people arsenic IPL captains.The 31-year-old has captained 3 franchises successful the league — Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings.Iyer archetypal became skipper of Delhi Capitals successful 2018 and led the squad successful 41 matches. Under him, Delhi reached their archetypal IPL last successful 2020.He aboriginal moved to KKR and captained the broadside successful 29 matches betwixt 2022 and 2024.
In 2024, helium guided Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL title.His stint with Punjab Kings has already brought a last appearance, successful IPL 2025, making Iyer the lone skipper successful IPL past to pb 3 antithetic teams into the tourney final.Before Sunday’s game, Iyer had recorded 56 wins arsenic captain, including 2 Super Over victories, and 40 defeats. Three matches ended without a result.His triumph percent successful completed matches stands astatine 58.3 percent, level with Dhoni for the champion occurrence complaint among IPL captains.
The grounds adds different section to Iyer’s captaincy travel crossed antithetic franchises and squads successful the IPL.In the match, Punjab Kings (PBKS) decided to vessel archetypal against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).After winning the toss, PBKS skipper Iyer said, "We're going to bowl. I'm not going by the stats; we're intelligibly seeing however the games cookware out. If we bat and vessel well, the flip doesn't matter. I didn't cognize that it was my 100th crippled arsenic captain, but I'll beryllium blessed if we win.
We've been bowling fantastically, but we request to bask the pressure. Brar and Lockie travel in."PBKS made a mates of changes successful their playing XI for this lucifer arsenic they brought Harpreet Brar and Lockie Ferguson successful spot of Xavier Bartlett and Marco Jansen.Jitesh Sharma is starring RCB successful today's lucifer successful the full-time skipper Rajt Patidar's absence.Punjab Kings’ run this play has besides seen crisp swings successful form.
The squad began IPL 2026 with a seven-match unbeaten tally that included six wins and 1 washed-out game. However, 5 consecutive defeats aboriginal successful the play pushed their playoff hopes into danger.Even so, Iyer’s emergence arsenic a skipper has continued steadily successful the IPL. From helping Delhi Capitals go contenders to starring KKR to a rubric and present trying to revive Punjab Kings’ campaign, helium has built a beardown grounds arsenic skipper crossed teams.At the apical of the all-time IPL captaincy database remains Dhoni, who led Chennai Super Kings and Rising Pune Supergiant successful 235 matches betwixt 2008 and 2025.
