IPL 2023: On Friday, Delhi Capitals (DC) head coach and former Australia captain Ricky Ponting stated that captain Rishabh Pant is the heart and soul of the Delhi club. The India wicketkeeper-batter will miss the entire Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season as he recovers from a horrible accident in December last year. Incidentally, the 25-year-old batsman was seriously injured in a near-fatal car accident in which his vehicle hit a road divider and caught fire.
Ponting stated that his absence in the forthcoming IPL season will be felt by the entire team. According to the Australian, the Indian cricketer is one of the top players in all formats of the game. The 48-year-old further asserted that the child is irreplaceable. The former Australian captain went on to say that the team is currently focusing more on improving its existing group.
“He’s a significant loss, and no matter who we bring in to fill that role, we’ll miss Rishabh.” I’m not going to sugarcoat it; he’s one of the top players in the world in all three formats, and he’s clearly our leader. Trying to replace him is therefore nearly difficult. But what we strive to do at DC is find the best young talent available and work with them for a couple of years to improve them, and we have a few of them currently,” Ponting added.
Ponting continued, “DC has the right guys to occupy the middle order.” Meanwhile, he stated that they had not yet confirmed a successor for Pant.
“Sarfaraz Khan and Yash Dhull can easily fill the middle order.” Lalit Yadav appeared in a few games last year, and Aman Khan has been quite impressive. He’s been outstanding during the last few days of training. We have Rovman Powell and Axar’s batting has improved significantly, so we will strive to find a replacement for Rishabh. You won’t have the same calibre, but we believe we can have a middle-order that is as good as any other squad,” he continued.
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