IPL 2023: Ricky Ponting gave a big statement on the return of Prithvi Shaw. Coach Ricky Ponting has no doubt that Prithvi Shaw remains a match-winner but feels that the Delhi Capitals opener has scored too few runs.
Opener Prithvi Shaw was dropped after a Poor Performance:-
Delhi Capitals dropped opener Prithvi Shaw after a poor performance in 6 consecutive matches. Phil Salt was brought in to replace him.
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However, he too got out for a duck. Although coach Ricky Ponting has no doubt that Prithvi Shaw remains a match-winner, he feels that the Delhi Capitals opener has scored very few runs.
Shaw played the first six matches of the season for the Capitals, scoring 12, 7, 0, 15, 0 and 13, before being dropped for their most recent game against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 24 April.
We know he is a match-winner:-
Capitals coach Ponting said that Shaw’s run of low scores for the Capitals extends into the second half of the 2022 season.
The opener has now failed to cross Fifty in his last 12 IPL innings. Ponting said- If you see throughout the tournament, there are many other players in the top order with other teams who are playing much better than Prithvi.
Ponting said – we needed to find a little spark in the top order and it did not work even with Phil Salt. “So yes, we know he is a match-winner.
That’s one reason why he’s a retained player in DC because we know that if he hits a certain amount of balls, we win about 95% of the games, but he hasn’t shown it so far this season.
it’s a tough decision to let him out:-
Ponting said- “I think the six games he played, he averaged around 7 or 8 plus 40 runs, so we don’t need that right now.
So it was a difficult decision to drop him, but hopefully, the team we put in tomorrow can win us another game.
Asked about the decision to drop Shaw, Ricky said, “It is not difficult to negotiate because that is my job.”
When players are not performing or even when they are performing, it is my job to have good, honest and open communication with all players. Let nothing separate with the earth.
I talk to him like I talk to anyone else.” When he came this year. He had been at the NCA for a few weeks.
He was working really hard on his fitness. Everything he did in the nets made me think this could be just as big a year for him.
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May Return To The Team
He will be one of our standout players for the tournament, I think it hasn’t worked out yet.
If things don’t work out with our current top-order. He can come back in the team and if he comes back, hopefully, he can finish the tournament really strongly.
We know the kind of talent he is, we all have seen him play. It is up to us as a team to find a way to get the best out of him.
