Will Punjab Kings Go After Shreyas Iyer And Rishabh Pant In IPL Mega Auction? Ricky Ponting Spills The Beans

Punjab Kings will enter the IPL 2025 auction with the highest purse of money. Ricky Ponting’s team opted to retain only two uncapped players, Shashank Singh for Rs 5.5 crore and Prabhsimran Singh for Rs 4 crore.A whopping 110.5 crore will be available for Punjab who recently appointed Ponting as its head coach. Punjab decided to let go of some of the biggest names including Kagiso Rabada and Arshdeep Singh as the new Australian coach is likely to start things from scratch. Ponting signed on the dotted line for a four year contract and he is expected to be given a long rope in order to fix things as Punjab are yet to lay their hand on the IPL trophy. In an interaction with Sanjana Ganesan for the ICC Review, the former World Cup winner reacted to how several franchises did not retain several big Indian stars for IPL 2025.“There are a lot of exciting players. So many. I’m a bit surprised with some of the non-Indian retentions if you like, with both Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant being available in the auctions.“It was a bit surprising, even KL Rahul to a certain degree. It seems like individuals or franchises are busy looking to move in different directions to some of their players.” Ponting also opened up on Punjab’s strategy as the IPL franchise only retained two players ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction. “I’m most excited about a new, fresh start. It starts to come together today, with the retention list. It’s well documented as to what I’ve done with Punjab (Kings). “We’re only going in with two uncapped players and we’re going into the auction with the biggest purse by a long way. So, we’ve got the ability to put a whole squad of players together.”