Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting has confirmed the participant who will lead the workforce in Rishabh Pant’s absence for the conflict against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Sunday, May 12. DC will be with out Pant, who has been handed a nice and one-match suspension attributable to his workforce’s third slower-rate offence in the continued season.
Ponting has reportedly confirmed that all-rounder Axar Patel will be doing the captaincy duties of the facet for this sport. The affirmation comes on the eve of their video games against RCB on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and hours after IPL‘s governing council confirmed Pant’s punishment.
“Mr Rishabh Pant, Captain, Delhi Capitals has been fined has been fined and suspended for one match for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct after his team maintained a slow over-rate during Match 56 of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 against Rajasthan Royals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi on May 07, 2024,” the IPL governing council stated in a press release.
“As it was his team’s third offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Rishabh Pant was fined INR 30 Lac and suspended for one match. The rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, were each individually fined either INR 12 Lac or 50 per cent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser,” the physique added.
DC are nonetheless in the race for the playoffs and have to face RCB and Lucknow Super Giants in their final two video games. The Capitals have 12 factors (6 wins) in 12 matches and are positioned in the fifth place in the factors desk. If they win each of their video games, DC will stand a sensible probability of constructing it by way of whereas stopping RCB’s successful march and likewise ending LSG’s hopes of reaching to 16 factors.Â
Axar has been a star performer for the Capitals in the continued season and in the earlier season too. This 12 months, Axar has made 164 runs and has taken 10 wickets too. Last season, the all-rounder amassed 283 runs whereas snaring 11 scalps.
