IPL 2022: DC Can Reach IPL 2022 Playoffs With 3 Wins: Coach Ricky Ponting After Loss Against CSK
Updated - 09 May 2022, 05:29 PM
Delhi Capitals (DC) coach Ricky Ponting accepts his side can reach the playoff games of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2022 regardless of the weighty loss to Chennai Super Kings imprinting their net run rate on Sunday.
Ponting additionally said that skipper Rishabh Pant has got his full support. Under Pant, DC have won only five of the 11 matches they have played up until this point, including the 91-run whipping because of Chennai Super Kings on Sunday.
Pant’s bowling changes and choice of bowlers to bowl at significant times of matches have been reprimanded by former players like Virender Sehwag.
Ricky Ponting Has Full Support For DC Skipper Rishabh Pant
Meanwhile Ponting, a former Australia, and Mumbai Indians skipper, said he completely backs each choice Pant takes on the field.
“I fully back every decision he (Pant) takes on the field. I being a T20 captain before, I know you don’t have a lot of time to think about especially under extreme pressure,” Ponting said at the post-match press conference after DC’s 91-run loss to CSK.
“It is easy to make judgments from outside but trust me when you are in the middle it is not an easy thing to do.”
Expounding on the dynamic course of a skipper, the former batter said “A captain makes decisions in a very short time and the decision he takes he thinks is the best for the team at that given time of the match.
“He takes things like boundary size and batsmen at the crease into account when he takes those decisions.”
He, however, believed that his team was outplayed in all three departments of the game in the defeat against CSK.
“Our bowling was not up to the mark, similarly our batting was very very poor. There were not many positives to take from the match. The only positive was Khaleel Ahmed, he was outstanding with the ball again,” Ponting said.
“To lose by 91 runs, it will put a huge dent in our net run-rate. It means we need to bounce back really strongly in our next game.”
DC Can Still Reach The Playoffs: Ricky Ponting
Ponting said DC can still make the playoffs with wins in all the remaining three matches.
“We would think we can make the play-offs with three wins. Eight wins might be enough to get in and one big win might help our net run rate. Who knows we can be in the final.
“That is what we can think of, what happened has happened and we would want to look to the future and look for a rebound from a bad performance.”
DC Camp Fighting With Covid Issues
DC has been confronting issues connected with COVID-19 with a net bowler testing positive for the infection not long before the CSK match on Sunday. A portion of their players and care staff, as well as Ponting’s relative, had likewise gotten the infection last month.
“That’s not an excuse for us. It’s not the first time that we’ve had to deal with it on game day. In one of the earlier games against Punjab Kings we had to deal with the same thing and ended up winning that game really comfortably,” he said.
“We are going to make excuses and we are going to find solutions for the problems we are facing. Although it wasn’t ideal preparation, we should have played better cricket. At the end of the day, we let ourselves down.”
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