It often happens that whether it is a captain, a player or a team, they get disappointed by defeat and get more disappointed by a bad defeat. After performing well in most of the matches, a bad performance in one match ruins all the hard work. It seems that this team and this captain can no longer return to the path of victory, but sometimes wonders happen. Sometimes the team does wonders, sometimes the captain does wonders. Sometimes both the team and the captain do wonders. The first four teams that reached the top in IPL-25 were the teams that won most of the 14 matches. Punjab was at number one, Bengaluru at number two, Gujarat at number three and Mumbai at number four. It was believed that if Punjab is at number one, then it can defeat Bengaluru. The first match was played between the two. No one had thought that the Punjab team would perform so badly. With captain Shreyas at the helm, the team will be all out for 101 runs, it will not even be able to play the full 20 overs. Seven of its players did not reach double figures, this was Punjab's worst performance in this IPL. No one had thought that Punjab would lose so easily. While it was believed that Punjab would take revenge of its previous defeat against Bengaluru, Bengaluru defeated Punjab even more badly than the last time.

It was good that Punjab was the number one team, so it got a chance to play one more match. It had to play this match against Mumbai, the Mumbai which remained at number eight in the points table for a long time after losing several initial matches, but in the later matches it started a winning streak and it was one of the first four teams. They were very far behind in the beginning, but in the end they were in the first four. While Gujarat and Delhi were ahead in the beginning, but in the end they were not even in the first four teams. The reason for this was that Delhi and Gujarat kept losing the last matches continuously. Mumbai's team reached the last four only after defeating Gujarat. Qualifier two was to be held between Mumbai and Punjab, that is, whoever loses will be out, so this was an important match between the two, that is, it was a question of prestige. Punjab had earlier reached the IPL final in 2014 but could not win the trophy, while Mumbai reached the final for the last time in 2020. This was Mumbai's fifth qualifier in the league history, so far it had won twice and lost twice. In 2013 and 2017, Mumbai reached the finals from the qualifiers and won the trophy. As far as the match between Mumbai and Punjab in this year's IPL is concerned, only one match was played in which Punjab defeated Mumbai by seven wickets. Mumbai scored 184 runs in this match which Punjab won by scoring 187 runs in 18 overs.

If we look at the win-loss ratio, Punjab seemed to have the upper hand but Punjab was under pressure due to losing to Bengaluru and Mumbai was excited due to defeating Gujarat in the previous match. That is, the second qualifier match was between a losing team and a winning team. There was not much difference in the bowling and batting of both, there was only a difference of nineteen and twenty, on this basis, whoever performed a little better could have won. Out of captain Hardik Pandya and Shreyas, only Shreyas is considered a good captain. He has won the trophy for the team he has captained. Under his captaincy, Kolkata and Delhi have won the trophy. This time he is captaining Punjab and has brought the team to the last four, so it is believed that this time his goal is to win the trophy for Punjab. Mumbai was considered stronger than Punjab, the reason for which was that it has won many trophies. While Punjab is yet to win its first trophy, Bumrah was also considered to be Mumbai's strength. The second qualifier match was held in Ahmedabad. Punjab won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai batted first and scored 204 runs for the loss of five wickets. Leaving Rohit aside, Bairstow 38, Tilak 44, Surya 44 and Naman 44 batted well, Hardik Patel could score only 15 runs, if he had batted well in the last overs like the Gujarat match, Mumbai could have scored 230-40 runs. Hardik could not play a good captaincy innings like the last match. Mumbai could not score any runs in the last two overs.

In any match, the first six overs and the last four overs are crucial. Whoever bats and bowls well in these ten overs wins the match. Punjab played with a plan. They had decided that they have to win this match at any cost. Everything depended on the captain Shreyas Iyer's captaincy innings. Captain Shreyas did not disappoint the team. When he came to play, two wickets had fallen at 55 runs, meaning the opening was not good. Priyansh could score 20 runs and Prabhsimran could score 6 runs. Shreyas and Inglis were playing well. Inglis scored 38 runs. After that Shreyas made a good partnership with Vadhera. Mumbai bowlers were never effective against Shreyas and Vadhera. Punjab had told that today is their day by scoring 20 runs in one over of Bumrah, who was considered Mumbai's strength. No one could get Shreyas out and in the 19th over, Shreyas batted explosively and scored 207 runs and defeated Mumbai by 5 wickets and took another step towards winning the third trophy.

If Punjab has succeeded in making it to the final of IPL after 11 years, then the credit for this goes to Shreyas Iyer. He has once again proved that he is a successful 20-20 captain. There was a notion that if Mumbai scores 200 runs, it does not lose the match, but Punjab and Shreyas Iyer have broken this notion by defeating Mumbai even after they scored 200 runs. Shreyas is an example of the fact that no matter which team it is, the captain has an impact on the team. The team also becomes as good as the captain. Even after losing, the team reaches the final. Then Punjab will face Bangalore in the final, Punjab has won and again stood in front of Bangalore, so the credit for this goes to Shreyas, his amazing captaincy, his amazing batting.