Ponting requires ‘soul-searching’ after Capitals’ third defeat in a row

“We are a long way off right now,” head coach Ricky Ponting assessed after their 57-run loss in Guwahati. “I can’t put my finger on why because I watch these boys train and prepare. Their work has been really good, their training has been great, but it hasn’t come across in terms of results yet on the field.

“If I may put my finger on it, I’d do one thing to vary it. We must do some extra soul-searching as a gaggle and speak about it. Maybe not tonight. I’ll simply let the blokes have a consider it. We could tackle it the subsequent day, however we have to flip it round fairly rapidly. Three video games in and no wins…you may’t get afford to get off to dangerous begins within the IPL.”

“In the primary two video games, we kind of received to none for 40 early on after which misplaced wickets within the again a part of the powerplay. Today was utterly totally different,” Ponting said. “We have been two down within the first over and also you let your again to the wall from there.

“You look at that aspect of our game, you look at our first two overs with the ball, they were none for 32 with eight fours and nothing else, it says our execution with the ball was way below what it needs to be. So, if you look at the first two overs of our bowling innings and first two overs of our batting innings, you put those together and it’s very hard to win games of cricket.”

Ponting was then quizzed about Shaw particularly. After being finished in by Mark Wood’s tempo and Mohammed Shami’s bounce within the first two video games, he was out to Boult’s late swing as he nicked a full supply in attempting to play an expansive on-drive. Shaw now has scores of 12, 7 and 0 in his three innings this season.

There’s been a sample to his struggles towards tempo. Six of his eight dismissals since IPL 2022 have been to wanting back-of-a-length deliveries, however Ponting insisted it was swing and never tempo or bounce that was enjoying on his thoughts towards the Royals.

“Probably it was the moving ball that worried him today,” Ponting stated. “If any of you guys were at training yesterday and watched him bat, he looked like a million dollars. So, his preparation was great. It’s probably something we need to think about.

“He’s now received a poor report towards left-armers, it is one thing each opposition would know, it is one thing that we have to work on with him. But as I stated we’re not going to level fingers at one particular person, we do not do this at Delhi Capitals. We’re all on this collectively and must play higher as a gaggle of 11-12 to get the outcomes we’re after.”