Few things have gone right for Delhi Capitals in the ongoing edition of the IPL. On Wednesday, they crashed to their seventh defeat of the season when they fell 27 short while chasing a 168-run target against the Chennai Super Kings.
Among other things, Delhi head coach Ricky Ponting thinks that the fact that they have lost wickets in the first over of the game several times this season has hurt them badly.
“I think that is the fifth, sixth, maybe seventh time this season where we have lost a wicket in the first over of the game. On one occasion we lost two wickets in the first over of the game. That is clearly an area that we haven’t got right...is pretty obvious where the game was lost,” the former Australia captain said.
Delhi lost skipper David Warner off the very second ball on Wednesday.
Ponting also pointed out the reason for their loss against the Super Kings even though they weren’t chasing a tall target. “We lost two early, then we lost three early and then the spinners came on...we didn’t show any urgency against the spinners.”
He, however, praised his bowlers. “I thought the bowlers overall did a really good job. The spinners — Axar (Patel) and Kuldeep Yadav — were good again. Khaleel (Ahmed) before his last over, which went for 20, he bowled 3 overs for 12.”
Written with inputs from PTI
