IPL 2025: Shreyas Iyer Announced Punjab Captain in Bigg Boss House

The Bollywood and entertainment industry has always gone well with the Indian cricketing industry. From hookups and link-ups to marriages and more, there’s a lot common between cricket and the Indian film industry. Today, we have this relationship go up a notch as for the first time ever, an Indian Premier League (IPL) captain was announced in a reality TV show.

We’re talking about India’s most popular and longest running reality show in Bigg Boss on Colors TV. The team in question is Punjab Kings who announced Shreyas Iyer as their new captain, as he entered the Bigg Boss 18 house along with teammates Yuzvendra Chahal and Shashank Singh.

IPL 2025: Shreyas Iyer Announced Punjab Captain in Bigg Boss House

Shreyas Iyer in Bigg Boss house!

Iyer, Chahal, and Singh interacted with BB 18 host Salman Khan before entering the house and having a little bit of fun with the housemates, including playing a cricket activity outdoors. The promo of them coming to BB18 aired yesterday, 11th Jan 2025, and today’s episode on 12th Jan will be the one where Salman Khan announces Punjab’s new captain.

Apart from the captaincy announcement, everyone was interested to know how Chahal and Iyer made a public appearance together, considering the public around around the two of them and Chahal’s wife, Dhanashree. Earlier in the IPL 2025 auction, they acquired Chahal for 18 Crore while Iyer bagged a record 26.75 Crore contract.


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While everyone knew about the Bigg Boss 18 appearance yesterday, it was only this evening that news sites began to share reports of Iyer’s captaincy announcement on the episode. It was obvious who was going to be made Punjab Kings captain, especially after Iyer led KKR to winning the IPL 2024 title, ten years after the franchise won their last IPL season.

As for Punjab Kings, the franchise co-owned by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta hasn’t won a single season of the Indian Premier League, and this will be their main roll of the dice, in hopes of reaching the silverware. Keep an eye on today’s episode to see how the Punjab Kings captaincy announcement was made. See tweets after the announcement:

Iyer captain Delhi Capitals too, before moving on to lead Kolkata Knight Riders. Only time will tell if he’ll be able to work his magic for the Kings in IPL 2025. For similar cricketing updates from around the world, remember to always stay tuned to ReadScoops.com.


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