Delhi Capitals (DC), under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, have been a force to reckon with this year. With a whopping seven victories in nine league clashes, they comfortably leading the points table. However, their hard-hitting wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant also suffered a grade 1 hamstring strain and has been missing games consistently. Pant suffered the injury during the match against Rajasthan Royals (RR) and it doesn’t look pretty serious as of now.
The Delhi management had conveyed the same to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Furthermore, Rishabh Pant’s exclusion has made Shimron Hetmyer sit out. as well. Despite being injury-marred, the Capitals have been enjoying a calm dug-out. While DC was chasing the target of 180 runs posted against CSK on Saturday, the head coach Ricky Ponting was interacting with the commentators.
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The funny thing about this incident was Rishabh Pant, who was standing behind Ponting, was mimicking the hand and mouth moments of the head coach. Ricky realized that Pant was standing behind him when the commentator pointed out the same.
Rishabh Pant making fun of Ricky Ponting 😂😂😂#DCvsCSK #IPL2020 @RishabhPant17 @RickyPonting @DelhiCapitals pic.twitter.com/2B9ExwGr4p
— Gautam (@Gautam__05) October 17, 2020
In the game against CSK, MS Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first and CSK racked up a score of 179 on the board. It was a combined effort as Faf du Plessis scored another fifty (58 off 47) and stitched a partnership with Shane Watson who went back to the pavilion after a knock of 36 off 28.
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Ambati Rayudu also played quickfire innings of not out 45 off 25 deliveries while Ravindra Jadeja played a sensational cameo of 33 not out off 13 balls, to take their team towards a respectable total. However, all those efforts went in vain as Shikhar Dhawan scored his maiden IPL ton and the game went into the last over but the Capitals were always in control of the chase and got over the line with two balls to spare.
