Delhi Capitals (DC) got eliminated from the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 after suffering a defeat against the five-time champions Mumbai Indians in their final group stage match of the tournament on May 21 (Saturday). With DC getting eliminated from the competition, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) reached the playoffs of IPL 2022. However, after the defeat, Capitals opener David Warner shared an emotional post on his social media accounts.
The swashbuckling batter from Australia also paid gratitude to the franchise for supporting him and his family during the tournament. Warner also said that the side will bounce back strongly next year as well. Taking to his Instagram account, David Warner wrote, “To everyone involved @delhicapitals, thank you for opening your arms to my family and me. We can not thank you enough for the love and support. You allowed us to come into your family, and we are forever grateful.”
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“I know we didn’t get the result we wanted, but what I can say is that every individual player, coach, background staff, the digital team, you name it, we gave our all. All we can do is learn and come back stronger,” Warner further added.
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However, David Warner was released by the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) ahead of the IPL 2022 mega auction. Delhi Capitals bought for INR 6.25 crore. He amassed 432 runs from12 matches at an excellent strike rate of 150.52 along with an impressive average of 48.00 as well.
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After their defeat in the final game, Rishabh Pant said: “For most of the game we were on top. On occasions, we let the game slip away from our grasp when we were on top. That’s what we were doing throughout the season. Not good enough to win this match I guess. It’s not about pressure. We could have done better execution and planning. Learn from mistakes and come back stronger next year. We were 5-7 runs short but we bowled really well. We bowled well throughout the tournament, but dew came in towards the end and we didn’t bowl to our plans. It’s hard but we got to take it on our chin and learn from it. I thought there was something (about not reviewing the Tim David caught behind). Everyone standing in the circle wasn’t convinced and at the end I didn’t go up. We were discussing (with Ponting) that we will tell bowlers to keep it simple. Just keep doing what is working for us and keep believing.”
