Brad Haddin hails 'leader of men' Shreyas after important Punjab win

[p]Iyer's unbeaten knock of 101, ‌featuring 11 fours and five sixes, guided his team ‌over the finish line in their final league ‌stage match on Saturday, with the win snapping a six-game losing streak for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/punjab-kings/juzL6jnm/"]Punjab[/a].[/p][p]"[b]In these matches you want your ‌best players to stand up,[/b]" Haddin ⁠said.[/p][p]"These are the matches ‌you want to play where everything is on the line. ​[/p][p]"[b]The captain for the last couple of days had that look in his eye. ​He wanted to be the one that made the difference and turned things around and gave us ⁠an opportunity to ​play in the finals.[/b][/p][p]"You'd go a long way to see a better innings and a better captain's knock than that.[/p][p]"[b]He's a tremendous leader of men. He ‌reads the game well. The changing room follows him. He speaks with purpose.[/b]"[/p][embed guid="bf73710d-3922-48b5-ba4d-40bd09fac2dd" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKimGCAk48" social-type="youtube" /][p]Punjab, fourth in the IPL standings, had a strong start to their season and won six of their opening seven games, but their form tailed off in recent weeks.[/p][p]They occupy the last qualifying spot for the playoffs, but will need other results to go their way on ‌Sunday if they are to progress.[/p][p]"[b]We just had ​to find some rhythm back in our game. ‌There's a lot of scenarios now that can play out,[/b]" former [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/australia/OxG0JfXg/"]Australia[/a] batter Haddin said.[/p][p]"[b]It was important, we had to win the game. We had to play this game the way we ⁠did tonight under ⁠pressure to give ourselves ‌an opportunity.[/b]"[/p]