The head coach of Delhi Capitals, Ricky Ponting, expressed his disappointment with the poor fielding of his group, significantly after the primary 4 overs, of their first match of IPL 2023 towards Lucknow Super Giants. During the match, Delhi struggled within the fielding division, with Kyle Mayers getting a fortunate break when Khaleel Ahmed dropped his catch at quick third off Chetan Sakariya within the sixth over. Mayers capitalized on this chance and went on to attain a blistering 73 off simply 38 balls, serving to Lucknow amass a complete of 193/6 of their first-ever residence sport.
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“One of those chances that went down was Mayers’, who ended up going on a bit of a run after that, which put us behind the game a little bit. The thing with giving chances in the IPL is you’re giving very good players a second opportunity. And he cashed in. For pretty much from that moment on, he hit everything in the middle. He attacked our spin, which he played really well. So that’s just a good lesson for us. We know that we have to be really sharp in the field,” stated Ponting within the post-match press convention.
Despite the pitch showing to be tough for stroke play, Lucknow shocked everybody by hitting 16 sixes in comparison with Delhi’s 5 fours, led by KL Rahul. With the exception of Ahmed’s 2/30 in 4 overs, all of Delhi’s bowlers had an financial system charge above eight.
“To be totally honest, I think they got more runs than they probably should have. I don’t think we helped ourselves in the field. Our fielding after the first four overs was really sloppy. A couple of chances went down, a few misfields. You can’t afford to put chances down, and if you do, you have to expect that they’re going to make you pay. There are a few reasons why we lost the game, and we’ll address those and hopefully improve for our next game,” he added.
Ponting additionally admitted that his group had anticipated some uncooked tempo and menacing bouncers from Mark Wood, the tearaway pacer. Wood’s 5/14 within the power-play broke the again of Delhi’s run chase, inflicting them to complete with a complete of 143/9 in 20 overs.
“I think we conceded 16 sixes in our bowling innings. That goes to show that we were a fair bit off with our execution with our bowling. Whenever you’re giving up 16 sixes, and there’s only five fours, which is quite remarkable.” he stated.
“So, whenever you’re giving up that many, it’s going to be hard to drag yourself back into the game. Looking at the wicket, I didn’t think it was a 190-plus wicket. There was a lot of dew there. If anything, on that wicket, it was probably better for us batting second,” he added.
“He bowled the way we thought he would bowl. We know he will run in and bowl fast; we know he will run in and attack the stumps and use his bouncer. That’s what he did. He got those couple of bowleds and used his bouncer really well. He’s a world-class fast bowler. As this tournament goes on, if he stays fit, you will see him bowl some really fast spells,” the coach stated.
Delhi could have their first residence sport of IPL 2023 on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday towards defending champions, Gujarat Titan
