NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals skipper
Rishabh Pant
has joined other Indian cricket stars in expressing concerns about the controversial Impact Player rule. His team recently won back-to-back high-scoring IPL matches where the chasing teams, Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians, came very close to victory.
In their match against Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals posted their highest-ever IPL team total of 257 for 4.
Despite some aggressive batting by Tilak Varma, who scored 63 off 32 balls for MI, DC managed to restrict them to 247 for 9.
"We were pretty happy with 250 on the board but with
impact sub
it is getting difficult each and every day," Pant said at post-match presentation ceremony.
To prevent the MI batters from advancing down the pitch, Rishabh Pant stood up to medium pacers like
Mukesh Kumar
and Rasikh Dar.
"Definitely, I can keep up to the stumps but the bowler also should be confident.... with batters like
Tim David
walking down, and today it worked."
The skipper showered praise on Jake Fraser-McGurk, who has made a significant impact in the IPL with yet another explosive innings—scoring 84 off 27 balls, including 11 fours and six sixes.
"He has been amazing since the first day and this is what you want from a younger player, he's getting better and better with each game. The chances are increasing day by day, but we are taking it one game at a time."
We lacked game awareness, says Hardik
With their chances of play-off qualification almost over, a dejected
Hardik Pandya
spoke about lack of game awareness in his team with southpaws like Nehal Wadhera and Tilak Varma not attacking left-arm spinner Axar Patel more. Axar conceded 2 sixes and a four in 12 deliveries and also restricted them to eight singles.
"We backed ourselves to chase this. We could have taken a couple of more chances in the middle overs. The left-handers could have probably gone after Axar (Patel) a little bit. It's something we missed out in terms of game awareness."
He was amazed at Fraser-McGurk's batting.
"It was quite amazing the way Fraser-McGurk batted, he took calculated risks, he played the field really well. It shows the fearlessness of youth."
(With PTI inputs)
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