IPL News - Ricky Ponting opens up on DC’s performance after their defeat to RR

1. Ricky Ponting opens up on DC’s performance after their defeat to RR In a close defeat against Rajasthan Royals, the Delhi Capitals did many avoidable mistakes that could have turned the table on the match result. Veteran off-spinner R Ashwin was not given from his four-over quota as the Rishabh skipper Pant brought seamer Marcus Stoinis instead. And, that one-over switch-out made all the difference in the game, believed the head coach Ricky Ponting. Image source by twitter “That’s certainly something that we will talk about when I get a chance to sit down with the team,” Ponting said at the post-match press conference. “He had bowled beautifully. Three overs, none for 14. Hadn’t even conceded a boundary. Look, he had a disappointing game in game one, but he has worked really hard in the last few days to make sure he adjusted and got things right in this game. I thought he bowled beautifully tonight. Probably a mistake on our behalf, and something we will be talking about later on.” Apart from this, another issue according to the head coach, was the easy deliveries they handed to Chris Morris and allowed him to go for big shots as well. Morris then smashed four sixes in a game where there wasn’t even a single six hit thus far. However, the fifteenth over changed the things as Rajasthan Royals smacked seven sixes in the last 4.4 overs.

2. Image source by twitter “We probably gavehim a few too many easy balls, a few too many slot balls if you like,” Ponting revealed. “The length wasn’t quite where it needed to be. If you look at the replay of the game, if you bowled a reasonable yorker, he didn’t score off them. If it was back of a length, sort of, above stump high, he didn’t get hold of them either, especially with pace on the ball. We talked about how to bowl to him, but the execution probably wasn’t there.” You can catch Match Prediction, IPL prediction, Live cricket score on Cricadium.