DC have now misplaced three video games in a row — by 50 runs to Lucknow Tremendous Giants, by six wickets to Gujarat Titans and by 57 runs to Rajasthan Royals right here on Saturday.
“We’re a great distance off proper now and I am unable to put my finger on why. If I watch these boys prepare and put together, their work has been actually good nevertheless it hasn’t simply come throughout as any outcomes but on the sphere. So if I may put my finger on it, I might 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 combos used have not labored to this point.
“We’ve to consider gamers we’re placing on floor as what we’ve got put in hasn’t labored, as a training group we’ll speak with our captain and take a name,” 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 do not assume it is the tempo. I do not assume Trent Boult’s tempo nervous him. I feel the shifting ball nervous him in the present day. Should you guys watched him bat yesterday at nets, he regarded one million {dollars}, his preparation was good,” Ponting mentioned.
However as one had seen with Mitchell Starc, when he performed Assessments in Australia, or Boult throughout the 2020 New Zealand sequence, Shaw’s issues towards left-am swing bowlers is well-documented.
“Could also be it is one thing to assume that he has received poor file towards left handers, which each and every opposition is aware of and one thing that we have to work with him.
“We can’t level finger at one individual and that is not what we do at DC, we’re on this all collectively and we’ve got to discover a higher approach to play as 11 or 12,” he mentioned.
KHALEEL HAS INJURED HAMSTRING, MARSH BACK HOME TO GET MARRIED
Khaleel Ahmed, who was smashed for 5 fours by Yashasvi Jaiswal within the opening over of the match, did not end his quota as Rovman Powell bowled the remaining couple.
Whereas many thought that Khaleel was taken off for the hammering, Ponting knowledgeable that Khaleel has “injured his hamstring” and so they had been compelled to bowl Rovman.
“We needed to change our taking part in XI in every recreation, at the very least three modifications and a few had been compelled. Mitchell Marsh has gone again to Australia to get married.”
SOME SOUL SEARCHING NEEDED
Ponting desires to offer the group a day’s break after which have some frank conversations about what precisely goes incorrect.
“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.
“However we have to flip round our cricket shortly and three video games and no wins, you may’t afford to get unhealthy begins in IPL.”
He feels the sport was just about received and misplaced in these first two overs when Rajasthan Royals racked up runs.
“Should you see from that facet, we gave away 32 in first two overs with eight fours and our bowling was means beneath execution stage of what it ought to be. So, when you put two overs of our batting innings and first over of our bowling, it is fairly laborious to win video games of cricket.”