Delhi Capitals (DC) skipper Rishabh Pant was disenchanted with the way in which his crew carried out within the recreation in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. He admitted that they had been outplayed by the opposition and so they wanted to mirror higher as a crew.
In what was the most important win within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) thumped Delhi Capitals (DC) by a giant margin of 106 runs. This was the third loss for Rishabh Pant’s crew as they discovered themselves reeling on the backside half of the desk.
It was a poor recreation with each bat and ball for the Delhi Capitals as they weren’t allowed by the KKR to take cost of the sport. Sunil Narine, 85 runs off simply 39 balls, put the bowlers underneath strain proper from the beginning and after that, they couldn’t management issues.
Debutant Angkrish Raghuvanshi wasn’t too distant as he impressed many along with his half-century. Earlier than Andre Russell (41) and Rinku Singh (26) completed the innings on excessive. Primarily based on the brutal effort with the bat, Kolkata Knight Riders posted a complete of 272 runs.
Delhi Capitals struggled to get going with the bat as Vaibhav Arora and Mitchell Starc took KKR off to an amazing begin as they mixed to choose 4 fast wickets. Rishabh Pant (55) and Tristan Stubbs (54) hit fifties but it surely wasn’t sufficient as they had been bundled out for simply 166 runs.
Rishabh Pant admitted that they had been far and wide and so they may’ve completed higher with the ball. He revealed his message to his crew after the primary innings and whereas chatting with broadcasters, he defined:
“We had been simply far and wide (with the ball), we may have completed higher, and it’s a kind of days I really feel. As a batting unit, we talked about going laborious (after the goal) and that’s how we method these video games as a result of it’s higher to be all-out making an attempt to go for the overall than not chase it down.”
Rishabh Pant additionally talked about non-DRS moments, saying that errors on the display screen led to the blunder. Through the 4th over of the innings, the keeper-batter had opted for DRS in opposition to Narine however umpires didn’t enable him as he was operating late of time.
“It was fairly loud (the venue) and couldn’t see the timer on the display screen (speaking in regards to the non-DRS moments) and there was some difficulty with the display screen as properly, there are some issues you possibly can management and a few you can’t management, you simply must waft,” he stated.
Time to mirror higher as a crew, as a person and are available again sturdy within the subsequent recreation – Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant additional made a robust assertion, saying that they should mirror on the issues they’re missing and are available again stronger within the subsequent recreation. He additionally talked about his health, saying that he’s having fun with himself. He added.
“Time to mirror higher as a crew, as a person and are available again sturdy within the subsequent recreation. I’m having fun with each day (speaking about his health and comeback) and cricket has its personal ups and downs, and on the identical time you possibly can attempt to give your finest as a person.”
Delhi Capitals will likely be subsequent seen in motion once they tackle Mumbai Indians on seventh April.
