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IPL 2022: Delhi Capitals Head Coach Ricky Ponting Backs Every Decision Rishabh Pant Takes On Field

Rishabh Pant바카라™s captaincy decisions on the field have come under the scanner after Delhi Capitals바카라™ underwhelming show in IPL 2022. DC have won five out of 11 games.

Delhi Capitals have failed to live up to the expectations under Rishabh Pant in IPL 2022.
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Rishabh Pant바카라™s on-field decisions as Delhi Capitals captain in the ongoing IPL 2022 might have come under the scanner of former players but the wicketkeeper has got the 바카라˜full backing바카라™ of head coach Ricky Ponting, who says 바카라˜it's easy to make a judgment from outside바카라™.

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Under Pant, Delhi Capitals have won just five of the 11 matches they have played so far. They suffered a 91-run thrashing at the hands of Chennai Super Kings on Sunday. Pant바카라™s bowling changes and selection of bowlers to bowl at crucial periods of matches have been criticised by former players like Virender Sehwag.

But Ponting, a former Australia and Mumbai Indians captain, said he fully backs every decision Pant takes on the field. 바카라œI fully back every decision he (Pant) takes on the field. I being a T20 captain before, I know you don바카라™t have a lot of time to think about especially under extreme pressure,바카라 Ponting said.

바카라œIt is easy to make judgments from outside but trust me when you are in the middle it is not an easy thing to do.바카라 Elaborating on the decision-making process of a captain, the legendary batter said, 바카라œA captain makes decisions in a very short time and the decision he takes he thinks is the best for the team at that given time of the match.

바카라œHe takes things like boundary size and batsmen at the crease into account when he takes those decisions.바카라 He, however, admitted that his side fared poorly in all departments of the game in the loss against CSK.

바카라œOur bowling was not up to the mark, similarly our batting was very very poor. There were not many positives to take from the match. The only positive was Khaleel Ahmed, he was outstanding with the ball again,바카라 Ponting said.

바카라œTo lose by 91 runs, it will put a huge dent in our net run-rate. It means we need to bounce back really strongly in our next game.바카라 Ponting said DC can still make the play-offs with wins in all the remaining three matches.

바카라œWe would think we can make the play-offs with three wins. Eight wins might be enough to get in and one big win might help our net run rate. Who knows we can be in the final. That is what we can think of, what happened has happened and we would want to look to the future and look for a rebound from a bad performance.바카라

Delhi Capitals have been facing issues related to COVID-19 with a net bowler testing positive for the virus just before the CSK match on Sunday. Some of their players and support staff, as well as Ponting's family member, had also contracted the virus last month.

바카라œThat's not an excuse for us. It's not the first time that we've had to deal with it on game day. In one of the earlier games against Punjab Kings we had to deal with the same thing and ended up winning that game really comfortably,바카라 he said.

바카라œWe are going to make excuses and we are going to find solutions for the problems we are facing. Although it wasn't ideal preparation, we should have played better cricket. At the end of the day, we let ourselves down.바카라

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