Delhi has many explosive batsmen: Pant-Shaw's strike rate is more than 145; Warner has scored 948 runs in the last two seasons

Mar 18, 2024 Divya Bharat

New Delhi28 minutes ago

copy link

Indian Premier League is starting after 4 days. Delhi Capitals will start their campaign on March 23 against Punjab Kings in Mohali. Team captain Rishabh Pant is making a comeback.

The return of captain Rishabh Pant will boost the morale of the players, although Lungi Ngidi's withdrawal from the Indian League due to injury will affect the fast bowling. The franchise has replaced him with Jack Fraser-Magark.

Delhi has many explosive batters. Of these, captains Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw score runs at a strike rate of more than 145, while David Warner scored 948 runs at a strike rate of 139.61 in the last two seasons. These include 11 half-centuries.

Pant's return will boost morale.
In the last auction, Delhi franchise bought 9 players for Rs 19.05 crore, which includes 4 foreigners and 5 uncapped players. The team has batsmen like David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant, Tristan Stubbs, Kumar Kushagra and Ricky Bhui. Shai Hope and Akshar can play the role of finishers. Harry Brook will be missed here.

The pace attack consists of pacers like Enrique Nortya and Lungi Ngidi. Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav is commanding the spin attack.

Strength :

Aggressive batter in top-3 Ricky Bhui can take command of Delhi's top order along with Prithvi Shaw and David Warner. The strike rate of all three in the league is around 140.
middle order strengthened Pant, Kumar Kushagra and Mitchell Marsh are strengthening the middle order. There are also names like Tristan Stubbs among them. Pant can also play the role of finisher.
Nortya will handle fast bowling in pace attack Delhi's bowling attack has bowlers like South African pacers Enrique Nortya and Joey Richardson. Who can bowl effectively in the new ball and death overs, while on slow tracks, Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav can play the role of game changer.

Weakness

no big finisher The franchise does not have any big finisher. In the last auction, the franchise, which was looking for a good finisher, had bought Brook and Kushagra for this role, but Brook has withdrawn from the league. Mitchell Marsh or Shai Hope can be included in place of Brook.
Lack of experienced all-rounder Delhi lacks experienced all-rounders this season. Only Marsh and Akshar Patel are seen in this role. Lalit-Sumit are options, but both of them are yet to prove themselves.
Lower order weak, spin attack also weak Lower order batting is weak. There is also a lack of options here. Apart from this, there is no big spinner to support Kuldeep Yadav in the spin attack.