IPL 2022: 'We Are Capable Of Having A Powerful Squad In A Year Or Two'- Ricky Ponting Makes A Bold Statement Regarding Delhi Capitals' Squad

With the Indian Premier League (IPL 2022) season less than a week, away, Delhi Capitals’ head coach Ricky Ponting has shown full faith in his squad and has urged that in a year or two they will have a powerful squad capable enough to challenge for the title. The Delhi Capitals have some of the fearsome players around the world with the addition of David Warner, Mitchell Marsh and captain Rishabh Pant (retained).

The former Australia captain believes that his team has all the ingredients to be successful and will be a force to reckon with in a year or two.

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”We have really got a good squad this year, but in a couple of years with some of the young guys we have bought up; we can develop them and have a really powerful squad in a year or two,” the Delhi Capitals head coach said while speaking to DCTV.

The former World Cup-winner also highlighted the importance of having experienced campaigners like Pant, Axar Patel and Anrich Nortje who have been around the squad. Delhi have a good mixture of young players and experienced players in the form of Warner, Pant alongside India U-19 captain Yash Dhull and Prithvi Shaw.

“Axar has been here for a long time now, Rishabh has been the captain of the squad and Nortje has been here for a couple of years. They need to understand their roles and responsibilities in the team.”

“The part of the coaching is to, empower the players that you need to empower and get the best out of them. If we can do that as a coaching collective and coaching group and make sure that the job is done for the team,” the 47-year-old added.

The Delhi who haven’t won the competition in the history of IPL will face record five-time champions Mumbai Indians in their opening contest on Sunday (March 27). This year with Covid-19 restrictions, the IPL season will be played in Mumbai and Pune for the league phase while the location for Play-offs remains undecided.

Delhi Capitals IPL 2022 squad in full: Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Ashwin Hebbar, Abhishek Sharma, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, KS Bharat, Mandeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungi Ngidi, Vicky Ostwal, Sarfaraz Khan.

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