‘Not going to be an IPL kind of scores’: Ricky Ponting asks batters to lower expectations in T20 World Cup

The Australian nice Ricky Ponting requested batters to lower their expectations after preliminary video games in the ICC T20 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2024 on Wednesday, June 5. Batters have struggled for large scores in the ninth version of the event in the USA and West Indies with many elevating their voice in opposition to taking part in situations. 

The majority of the big-name gamers witnessed a staggering run fest in the latest Indian Premier League 2024 however are set to face completely totally different challenges in the World Cup 2024. Both the USA and Canada began the event with an exhilarating high-scoring opener however followers witnessed just one 150-plus complete in the subsequent seven matches.

Ponting defended taking part in situations and requested batters to increase their technical recreation to face totally different challenges, particularly at New York’s brand-new Nassau County International Cricket Stadium. 

“Being a day game, the ball swung and seemed a little bit,” Ponting advised ESPNCricinfo. “So batsmen will have to keep that in mind, how they start their innings and maybe just lower expectations on scores. 240 was sort of a score that you were aiming to get in the IPL. It’s probably not going to be that for the first part of the tournament here in New York. So that sets a whole lot of different challenges.”

In the IPL 2024, groups managed to register 250+ totals for a file eight occasions with Sunrisers Hyderabad alone breaking the earlier highest complete 3 times and setting a brand new file of 287. However, followers are seeing a very totally different state of affairs in the World Cup and Ponting believes that followers have been ‘a bit spoiled of watching’ run fests for the final couple of months.

“There’s no hiding the fact in the first game [between SL and SA] it was probably just a little bit swayed in the bowler’s favour,” Ponting added. “But the other thing we have to be a little bit mindful of is we have probably all been a little bit spoiled of watching the run fests in the IPL over the last couple of months where we had probably the extreme opposite.”

In the newest eighth match of the event, India restricted Ireland to 96 and wanted 74 balls to chase down the goal on the expense of two wickets on Wednesday.