IPL 2022: DC Coach Ricky Ponting Breaks Silence On Rishabh Pant-Pravin Amre No-ball Row: Everything About It Was Wrong
Published - 29 Apr 2022, 12:45 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 01:08 AM
Delhi Capitals (DC) head coach Ricky Ponting figured that his side’s eruption during the match against the Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Wankhede Stadium was totally inappropriate. On April 22, DC captain Rishabh Pant and assistant coach Pravin Amre lost their self-control after the on-field umpire didn’t decree Obed McCoy’s full toss as a waist-high no-ball.
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Amre was additionally seen charging onto the field to have a conversation with the umpires, after which sanity prevailed. With 36 runs required in the last over, Rovman Powell crushed McCoy for three sixes in succession to keep alive Delhi’s expectations of a far-fetched win. Yet, after the brief break because of the debate, Powell lost the plot and the Royals won by 15 runs.
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Afterward, Rishabh Pant was fined 100% of his match fees, while Amre was additionally dispensed with a similar discipline alongside a one-match ban. Ricky Ponting plainly expressed that his group isn’t glad for their activities in any way shape or form.
“It was all wrong, everything about it was wrong. The umpire was wrong but you have got to get on with it. For our players to demonstrate what they did and to have our assistant coach run onto the field, it’s not anything we are happy with or proud of. I have spoken to the guys about that,” Ponting was quoted as saying to Star Sports.
“But KP (Kevin Pietersen), we have had a pretty tough time at DC over the last few weeks. We have had Covid cases, we have been locked in the hotel room and, I think, just all the frustration that built up. It was a close game and it all just came out there in that moment.
“That was a lion in the sand moment for us, it was the halfway time of the tournament. We said we would leave all that behind and move to the 2nd half of the tournament with a better attitude,” he added.
Ricky Ponting wasn’t a member of the Capitals’ dugout in that game as he was serving a five-day isolation period subsequent to being considered as one of the nearby contacts of his relative, who was tested positive for COVID-19.
