Rishabh Pant may be banned from the upcoming IPL 2023, but Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting believes the team’s official captain still has a role to play. Ponting hopes Punt will join the team during the season when he has fully recovered.
“I want him to sit next to me in the dugout every day,” Ponting said in his ICC review. “Even if he’s not physically fit enough to play, we want him there.
“He’s kind of the cultural leader of the group because he’s the captain and that attitude and the infectious smile and laughter he has makes us all love him so much.” am.”
“If he can really travel and be with the team, I want him to sit next to me in the dugout every day,” he said. “When we get together in Delhi in mid-March and start camping or whatever, I will definitely make sure to be with him.
Pant was in a car accident on Dec. 30 and is expected to miss most of 2023. He has torn three major ligaments in his knee, two of which were reconstructed on his Jan. 7, and a third scheduled for surgery on his Feb. I’m here.
Ponting also said the Capitals were looking for a wicket-keeper hitter to replace Pant, but he emphasized how difficult it would be to replace a player of his quality.
At the December 2022 auction, Capitals bought his five players but not the wicketkeeper, leaving Pants as the lone Groveman on the roster. However, Sarfaraz Khan was Mumbai’s part-time wicketkeeper in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament. “These guys can’t be replaced. It’s as easy as that,” Ponting said. I have to, and I’m already doing it.”
In the 2020 IPL he placed 2nd, in the 2021 IPL he lost to The Eliminator and in the 2022 IPL she finished 5th.March – after the first edition of her IPL for women – April and she Runs through May.