With Ricky Ponting as Head Coach and Sourav Ganguly as Director of Cricket, Delhi Capitals (DC) boasts two of the sharpest minds in cricket in the world. However, DC has not won a match in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2023) season so far. DC were outplayed by the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Saturday and it was their fifth straight defeat in the competition. The David Warner-led squad remains at the bottom of the points table with zero points so far.
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri showed no mercy to the franchise or Ganguly. While commentating during their match against RCB, Shastri took a brutal jibe at Ganguly.
“Problem now with Delhi Capitals is, especially with the way the other teams are going, you lose four on the trot, it’s going to be very, very hard to come back. There are people in that dugout who are not used to losing . Ricky Ponting’s one. David Warner too. He’s been on the winning side too. It’s not about losing. It’s about getting hammered. It’s five trotting, when you don’t look like you want to win. Close games losing is one thing, if you get outplayed by opposition, it’s not a happy story.” Sourav Ganguly, the former chairman of the board of directors. He must have thought it was fun upstairs,” Shastri heard on the air.
DC captain Warner continues to hope for a turnaround despite his team’s fifth straight loss.
Virat Kohli hit 50 to lead hosts Bangalore to 174-6, in aggregate defending their bowlers by limiting Delhi to 151-9 in the first game of the day.
Delhi was never in pursuit and regularly lost wickets.
Even Warner, who has scored 228 runs with three half-centuries in the tournament but struggled with his strike rate, scored just 19.
Manish Pandey made 50, but the rest of the at bat fell apart as debutant and local boy Vijaykumar Vyshak returned figures of 3-20 for RCB.
Returning Mitchell Marsh, back from his wedding in Australia, made a positive impact with the ball, but failed to give his side a good start in the pursuit.
(with AFP inputs)
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