Punjab Kings’ Shashank Singh on what advice he got from Mahendra Singh Dhoni: ‘He told me that if you’re winning three games for your team out of 10..’ | Cricket News
Shashank Singh, who was one of the finds of the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) season, shared some advice that Mahendra Singh Dhoni had bestowed on him.
“Once I had a conversation with Mahi Bhai (MS Dhoni) about this finisher’s thing. So he told me that if you’re winning three games for your team out of 10, you are in the world’s five or 10 best players. That gave me really confidence that it’s important to accept that every match is not possible practically for me to win. So, I just try to collect those good points, which I did. Just try to minus those stupid point or points which were not sensible,” Shashank said to PTI.
Shashank was just one of the two players retained Punjab Kings for the 2025 IPL season. That’s a long way for a player to traverse after the franchise claimed that signing him in 2024 IPL auction was a make after they were confused due to another player sharing the same name being on the auction l.
The ‘make’ proved a fortunate one for the Kings as Singh became one of the finds of the last edition of the IPL, hammering in 354 runs at a strike rate of 164.65 at an average of 44.25, thus becoming the franchise’s highest run scorer of the season.
On Sunday, he also talked about the batting techniques he has been working on.
“On the batting front, I have been working on bettering my pull and hook. I’ve started reverse sweeping because I feel that sometimes on slow wickets where it’s difficult to hit the ball towards long on, long off, towards deep wicket; it’s better to just reverse sweep it or sweep it,” he said.
“So the last two camps, I’ve worked a lot, I’ve played what maybe 1000 balls, reverse sweeping to spinners. I have played the reverse sweep in the past but I just want to be more confident going into the season,” he added.
