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Hit hard by COVID-19 outbreak before their IPL game against Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals all-rounder Axar Patel said a pep talk from head coach Ricky Ponting worked wonders in lifting the morale of the side, resulting in a comprehensive win.
Delhi Capitals against Punjab Kings. With Tim Seifert becoming the sixth member in three days from the Capitals contingent testing positive for Covid-19 in the morning, the players waited in their hotel rooms till the last hour, uncertain if the match would go ahead while their opponents were already at the venue. As it happened | Scorecard | Points TableAs the remaining members returned negative, just 15 players and a handful of support staff were allowed to go to Brabourne stadium. Languishing at eighth spot in the points table, confined to hotel rooms and the team engulfed in uncertainty, coach Ricky Ponting and captain Rishabh Pant turned up at the venue, delivered strong speeches revolving around 'control the controllable' and galvanized the team. The team had found its purpose. Capitals may have been the wounded team when they reached the venue but when they left the stadium, they had brutally scarred Punjab Kings. They dismissed Punjab for a paltry 115 and then chased down the target in 10.3 overs with nine wickets to spare. After electing to bowl first, Pant's bowlers literally delivered the match as a souvenir of the team's character. The Capitals bowlers, led by the guile of Axar Patel, were so accurate that It never appeared this one was the same pitch on which over 400 runs were scored a couple of nights ago.
Heading into the contest against Punjab Kings in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, Delhi Capitals' preparations received a massive blow as two players -- Mitchell Marsh and Tim Seifert ended up testing positive for COVID-19. The fate of the match was unclear till one hour before the scheduled start, however, Delhi Capitals had enough players available for the contest to go ahead at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. Ahead of the match, DC head coach Ricky Ponting admitted that the preparation of his side has not been ideal but he expects the Rishabh Pant-led side to give it their all.
Former India bowler Ashoke Dinda represented the likes of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) during his long IPL career. Now it looks like the pacer's IPL career would never have kicked off, had it not been for none other than Ricky Ponting. Ponting had joined KKR in IPL's inaugural edition in 2008 and revealed that Dinda was originally a net bowler. But he bowled bouncers to all batters in every training session for a length of seven to 10 days and it left an impression on the former Australia captain, who ended up telling John Buchanan to give him a contract.
Team allowed to practice on Tuesday, match vs Punjab moved to BrabourneBeing in the Delhi Capitals camp right now isn't the most lucrative prospect. Uncertainty has gripped the franchise. They were yet to settle down on a Plan A in their first matches of this season. Now they are hustling to draw up a Plan B and execute it. Unavailability of foreign players to start with and now a Covid outbreak in the camp has ensured Capitals haven't had the easiest initiation to the season. On Tuesday, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) decided to move Capitals' match against Punjab Kings from Pune to the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai. The reason was "to avoid any further incident due to any undetected case during a long-distance bus journey in a closed environment".
The Easter resignation of Joe Root as Test captain and Rob Key’s subsequent appointment as managing director of men’s cricket have answered two of the most pressing questions around the England side after a troubled winter.
Delhi Capitals' (DC) head coach Ricky Ponting feels his team needs to improve in all aspects of the game after its third defeat in five games in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). DC lost by 16 runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday night to lie at the bottom half of the IPL table with just four points. And Ponting said it's time DC start clicking as a unit in all aspects of the game. "We haven't had our full strength batting. Mitchell Marsh played his first game and probably didn't quite fit the tempo of the game that we needed. Rovman Powell hasn't fired so far in middle order. So we need to fix some things and what we intended to do throughout the tournament," Ponting said at the post-match press conference.
Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting feels his team needs to improve in all aspects of the game after its third defeat in five games in the ongoing Indian Premier League. DC lost by 16 runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Wankhede Stadium Saturday night to lie at the bottom half of the IPL table with just four points.