DC vs PBKS: On A Wicket Like This, Ball Was Stopping So I Used Spinners - Rishabh Pant
Delhi Capitals (DC) captain Rishabh Pant assessed the pitch conditions at the Wankhede Stadium quite quickly and chose to bowl his spinners. The move paid off against Punjab Kings, who were blown away for 115, the lowest total in this IPL 2022 season.
DC’s spin-trio of Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, and Lalit Yadav took combined figures of 10-0-45-6. It completely crushed the innings of PBKS, who failed to put up a fight after their top performers fell.
“Mostly I like to leave them alone as everyone knows their roles in the team. We will look to improve in every match and that’s the only thing we can control, results are not in our control but we can learn from our mistakes. On a wicket like this, I thought the ball was stopping a bit and that’s why I used more of the spinners,” Pant said at the post-match presentation ceremony.
Rishabh Pant says there was nervousness in their camp about covid cases
DC camp had six covid cases that were found ahead of their game against PBKS, forcing BCCI to reschedule the match to Wankhede. Not knowing whether the game will go ahead or not subjected DC players to tough times.
“Obviously there was confusion in our camp because in the morning we got to know that Tim is also positive. There was some confusion, nervousness and what are we going to do now feeling, but we spoke in the team meeting and pointed out what we can focus on, there was so much noise from the outside we thought we will focus on the match,” he further added.
Eventually, DC won the game by nine wickets and jumped up to the sixth place on the points table with the best net run rate in the league.
