Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting threw explained some of the shortcomings of Prithvi Shaw in the last IPL season, revealing that when the young opener had been going through a lean patch he refused to bat in the nets. Shaw’s peculiar approach of batting in the nets left Ponting perplexed, and he hoped that the youngster would have changed his approach coming into this season. Shaw averaged just 17.53 from 13 games last season but comes into the IPL on the back of a record-breaking run in Vijay Hazare Trophy.
As per the quotes in cricket.com.au., Ricky Ponting said, “I’ve had some really interesting chats with him through last year’s IPL, just trying to break him down, trying to find out exactly what was the right way to coach him. But he had an interesting theory on his batting last year – when he’s not scoring runs, he won’t bat, and when he is scoring runs, he wants to keep batting all the time.
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He further added, “He had four or five games where he made under 10 and I’m telling him, ‘We have to go to the nets and work out (what’s wrong)’, and he looked me in the eye and said, ‘No, I’m not batting today’. I couldn’t really work that out.”
Shaw was dropped playing XI by the capitals in IPL 2020 and played just one of the three playoff games in a season where the team reached the final where they lost to Mumbai Indians. Ponting hoped that Shaw has changed in the five months that have passed between the last IPL and the upcoming season.
Ricky Ponting asserted, “He might have changed. I know he’s done a lot of work over the last few months, that theory that he had might have changed, and hopefully, it has, because if we can get the best out of him, he could be a superstar player.”
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Shaw’s form has witnessed a significant change in the time between the two IPL seasons. After being dropped during the Australia Test series, the 21-year-old amassed as many as 827 runs from eight matches. for Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy – the most by any batsman in any season of the tournament.
