DC coach Ricky Ponting breaks silence on Rishabh Pant-Pravin Amre no-ball row: Everything about it was mistaken

Delhi Capitals (DC) obtained themselves in a serious controversy throughout their match in opposition to the Rajasthan Royals (RR) on April 22.

Ricky Ponting of Delhi Capitals. Courtesy: PTI

HIGHLIGHTSRishabh Pant and Pravin Amre had been meted out with punishmentsThe Capitals misplaced the match by 15 runsPonting missed the sport because of COVID-19 points

Delhi Capitals (DC) head coach Ricky Ponting reckoned that his workforce’s outburst in the course of the match in opposition to the Rajasthan Royals (RR) on the Wankhede Stadium was fully uncalled-for. On April 22, DC skipper Rishabh Pant and assistant coach Pravin Amre misplaced their composure after the on-field umpire didn’t adjudge Obed McCoy’s full toss as a waist-high no-ball.

Amre was additionally seen charging onto the sphere to have a heated dialogue with the umpires, after which sanity prevailed. With 36 runs wanted within the last over, Rovman Powell smashed McCoy for 3 sixes in a row to maintain alive Delhi’s hopes of an unlikely triumph. But after the brief break as a result of controversy, Powell misplaced the plot and the Royals gained by 15 runs.

Later, Pant was fined 100% of his match charges, whereas Amre was additionally meted out with the identical punishment together with a one-match ban. Ponting clearly said that his workforce isn’t happy with their actions by any stretch of the creativeness.

‘Lion in the sand moment’

“It was all wrong, everything about it was wrong. The umpire was wrong but you have got to get on with it. For our players to demonstrate what they did and to have our assistant coach run onto the field, it’s not anything we are happy with or proud of. I have spoken to the guys about that,” Ponting was quoted as saying to Star Sports.

“But KP (Kevin Pietersen), we have had a pretty tough time at DC over the last few weeks. We have had Covid cases, we have been locked in the hotel room and, I think, just all the frustration that built up. It was a close game and it all just came out there in that moment.

“That was a lion in the sand moment for us, it was the halfway time of the tournament. We said we would leave all that behind and move to the 2nd half of the tournament with a better attitude,” he added.

Ponting wasn’t part of the Capitals’ dugout in that sport as he was serving a five-day isolation interval after being deemed as one of many shut contacts of his member of the family, who was examined optimistic for COVID-19.