Delhi Capitals haven’t got plenty of time left to make a name relating to Rishabh Pant, their unique skipper forward of the 2024 version of the IPL. If he is match, does he resume captaincy or David Warner continues because the skipper? And, if he performs just a few matches, how do Delhi Capitals mess around with that, who would be the wicketkeeper then? The Capitals have a couple of inquiries to reply within the subsequent 10 days or so earlier than they kick off their marketing campaign in opposition to the Punjab Kings in Mohali on Saturday, March 23.
Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting hoped that Pant would get match mentioning that the wicketkeeper batter performed a couple of observe video games within the final couple of weeks, which is an encouraging signal for the aspect. Nonetheless, at this second Ponting too wasn’t positive relating to the extent of Pant’s health and the way and in what methods the wicketkeeper batter would have the ability to participate within the event.
Talking on the ICC Assessment, Ponting mentioned, “It is a massive determination we’ll need to make as a result of if he’s match, you’d suppose he’d step straight again into that captaincy function. If he isn’t solely match and we’ve got to make use of him in a barely totally different function, then we have got some choices to make there.
“He is really performed some observe matches over the past couple of weeks, which has been actually encouraging for us,” Ponting mentioned. “I do know he is labored extremely laborious on his physique and his health to get again to the extent that he is at now. He is saved in a type of video games, he is fielded in these video games and the batting hasn’t seemingly been a difficulty for him to this point,” the previous Australian skipper additional added.
The Capitals had their worst season within the final 5 years since 2019 as they completed ninth on the desk final 12 months with simply 5 wins within the competitors and so they desperately missed a high quality Indian batter within the center order. Though, they’ve added a couple of abroad choices within the center order, if Pant is not a daily, it is going to be a priority for the the 2020 IPL finalists.
“We have clearly had worries and issues that he won’t have made it in time to be prepared for the IPL this 12 months. I imply, he was an enormous loss for us final 12 months and what he went by means of, we will not even start to explain what he is been by means of the final 12 or 14 months,” Ponting added.