DC have now misplaced three video games in a row — by 50 runs to Lucknow Super Giants, by six wickets to Gujarat Titans and by 57 runs to Rajasthan Royals right here on Saturday.
“We are a long way off right now and I can’t put my finger on why. If I watch these boys train and prepare, their work has been really good but it hasn’t just come across as any results yet on the field. So if I could put my finger on it, I would change it,” a visibly upset Ponting advised mediapersons after a 3rd debacle in a row within the ongoing IPL.
He was fairly easy in his admission that the taking part in mixtures used have not labored to this point.
“We have to think about players we are putting on ground as what we have put in hasn’t worked, as a coaching group we will talk with our captain and take a call,” Ponting mentioned.
SHAW NEEDS TO WORK ON PLAYING LEFT-ARM SEAMERS
On Saturday, it wasn’t the uncooked tempo that troubled Prithvi Shaw however the motion off the floor generated by Trent Boult.
“I don’t think it’s the pace. I don’t think Trent Boult’s pace worried him. I think the moving ball worried him today. If you guys watched him bat yesterday at nets, he looked a million dollars, his preparation was good,” Ponting mentioned.
But as one had seen with Mitchell Starc, when he performed Tests in Australia, or Boult throughout the 2020 New Zealand sequence, Shaw’s issues towards left-am swing bowlers is well-documented.
“May be it’s something to think that he has got poor record against left handers, which every opposition knows and something that we need to work with him.
“We will not level finger at one individual and that is not what we do at DC, we’re on this all collectively and we have now to discover a higher option to play as 11 or 12,” he said.
KHALEEL HAS INJURED HAMSTRING, MARSH BACK HOME TO GET MARRIED
Khaleel Ahmed, who was smashed for five fours by Yashasvi Jaiswal in the opening over of the match, didn’t finish his quota as Rovman Powell bowled the remaining couple.
While many thought that Khaleel was taken off for the hammering, Ponting informed that Khaleel has “injured his hamstring” and they were forced to bowl Rovman.
“We needed to change our taking part in XI in every recreation, at the least three adjustments and a few had been pressured. Mitchell Marsh has gone again to Australia to get married.”
SOME SOUL SEARCHING NEEDED
Ponting wants to give the team a day’s break and then have some frank conversations about what exactly is going wrong.
“We have to do some soul looking as a bunch and could also be not tonight as I’ll let the boys give it some thought tonight and could also be come again tomorrow or day after,” Ponting mentioned.
“But we have to flip round our cricket shortly and three video games and no wins, you’ll be able to’t afford to get dangerous begins in IPL.”
He feels the game was pretty much won and lost in those first two overs when Rajasthan Royals racked up runs.
“If you see from that side, we gave away 32 in first two overs with eight fours and our bowling was manner beneath execution degree of what it must be. So, in case you put two overs of our batting innings and first over of our bowling, it is fairly exhausting to win video games of cricket.”
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com