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How Ponting Convinced PBKS Foreign Players To Stay Back After Ceasefire
Hindustan Times Ranchi
|May 12, 2025
Punjab Kings head coach Ricky Ponting was about to take off for home when the ceasefire between India and Pakistan came into force.
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Despite that, the Australian legend had the option to fly back to Australia but he chose not to, making a last-minute disembarkation from the plane packed with anxious passengers. Ponting stayed back in Delhi, but he also ensured that the PBKS' foreign players, who were edgy considering the possibility of a full-scale war between two nuclear-armed countries, did not board the flight from the national capital on Saturday night.
This story is from the May 12, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Ranchi.
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