Delhi Capitals, one of many few franchises to have failed of their pursuit of profitable an Indian Premier League (IPL) title, gears up for one more season, with Rishabh Pant again as captain. Though Delhi have had some superb gamers of their ranks, they’ve solely managed to go so far as the ultimate of the match as soon as. Mohammad Kaif, a former coach and mentor with the franchise, feels the shortage of success at Delhi Capitals is due to the franchise’s incapability to again gamers.

“When I was there, we went to the final in one season and finished top three in the other two seasons. I think the players are not getting backed properly. They are not able to identify players and back them. You can ask the same question of RCB,” Mohammed Kaif mentioned in an interview with Lallantop.

In the IPL 2023 season, the Delhi Capitals solely managed to safe a Ninth-place end. But, forward of the brand new marketing campaign, the franchise has been boosted with the return of skipper Rishabh Pant.

“It’s just the start. We don’t expect to be practising at our absolute best right now. We’re not even so much looking forward to the first game yet. We’re getting some volume work done,” Ricky Ponting, referring to the workload on the coaching session.

“What I saw was very exciting, very promising. It’s great to be back with the Delhi Capitals family,” the coach mentioned on the early coaching classes with the franchise.

It isn’t just the gamers, who have to up their depth however the coach himself desires to boost his degree of preparedness.

Asked in regards to the crew’s method this 12 months, Ponting mentioned, “It’s not a different approach, it’s the same, but I’m going to be more intense with the way that I go about it this year. Every time I come here, I talk about wanting to win the IPL and nothing changes there. I’m just going to talk about that a lot more this year.” For Ponting, it isn’t about qualification for the last-four however profitable the elusive championship for the franchise.

“I want the guys to be fully engaged and that’s the reason we’re all here. It’s my job to bring success to this team. We’re not talking about just winning enough games to qualify. We’re talking about winning the IPL.

“Everything we do, each coaching session we’ve got, each assembly we’ve got, each restoration session we’ve got, each chat that I’ve with the gamers goes to be about making them higher to present ourselves the very best likelihood of profitable,” he said.

With PTI inputs