On Saturday evening, the younger batters like Sarfaraz Khan, Priyam Garg and Ripal Patel didn’t sustain the tempo as Capitals chased 198 towards Sunrisers Hyderabad after Mitchell Marsh and Phil Salt had hammered 112 in 11 overs.
Marsh tried to defend the administration’s choice to ship Garg and Sarfaraz forward of the in-form Axar Patel.
“We got a lot of belief in all our players. There’s some inexperienced players in our lineup, but you got to have faith, you got to throw those guys in there and I don’t think the game was lost there tonight,” Marsh mentioned after the match.
However, TOI understands that the Capitals administration isn’t proud of how the scouting has gone over the past two years which has led to poor preparation for the auctions.
“There are people who have very little experience of high-quality cricket and they have been tasked with scouting talent. The management is very miffed with the absence of lead coaches at the auction table too,” a supply instructed TOI.
Six years in the past, this franchise had determined to put money into youth like Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw and Axar Patel. As these children have been gained expertise, senior professionals like Shikhar Dhawan got main roles.
Unlike the earlier lot, this present lot of children haven’t set home white-ball cricket on fireplace. Yash Dhull was untested when he was picked purely on the idea that he did with the India U-19 crew. Sarfaraz has been prolific in red-ball cricket however he too hasn’t dominated the white-ball format. Ripal has been groomed for 3 seasons at Capitals however nonetheless hasn’t discovered his groove. Lalit Yadav’s lack of development has additionally disillusioned the administration. Yet, he was most well-liked over the expertise of R Ashwin.
(DC appointed David Warner as captain for the 2023 IPL season in Rishabh Pant’s absence – Photo: PTI/BCCI/IPL)
“It’s true that the mega auction disrupted the core of the team. But there should have been a ploy to somehow buy back most of the star players. The scouting is majorly based only on analysis on computers,” the supply mentioned.
With 10 groups taking part in in IPL, the expertise pool has dried up for Capitals to rebuild. It may be assumed that the administration is punting on the switch window to open to do some heavy buying and selling earlier than the following season.
As of now, DC are languishing on the backside of the desk with nearly no probability of creating it to the playoffs.
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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com