Last year's runners-up Delhi Capitals' head coach Ricky Ponting is excited to join the side as the schedule is announced for the 2021 season of IPL
As the BCCI announced the schedule for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the teams have started gearing up for the 7 week-long tournament starting in a month's time. Australian cricket great and former captain, Ricky Ponting, who's the head coach of the last year's runners-up Delhi Capitals had a special wish ahead of the new season.
Ponting, while expressing his excitement to join the franchise for his fourth season as the coach hoped that the spin twins Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin have wickets left in them after taking all of them in the last few weeks in the recently concluded four-match Test series against England. Ponting also wished that wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant to continue his run-scoring form from the last two months in a drastic change in his form after a poor 2020 IPL.
Ponting took to Twitter and wrote, "Can't wait to get over to @delhicapitals and get to work. Hope @akshar2026 and @ashwinravi99 have some wickets left after taking all of them in the last month, and @rishabhpant17 has more runs to make!"
Ashwin and Axar took 59 wickets in total in the four matches as India won the series 3-1 and reached the World Test Championship (WTC) final. Ashwin, was also the 'Player of the series' as he took 32 wickets including three five-wicket hauls and scored 189 runs including a century, while Axar who made his debut in the series, in just the three games he played took 27 wickets.
Pant, on the other hand, ended the series as the third highest run-getter with 270 runs including a match-winning century in the final game, which earned him the 'Man of the Match' award.
Delhi Capitals will begin their 2021 IPL campaign against the MS Dhoni-led side Chennai Super Kings on April 10 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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