Ricky Ponting reveals cause behind cut up with Delhi Capitals | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Ricky Ponting, the previous Australian captain, has been appointed as the pinnacle coach of the Punjab Kings (PBKS) within the Indian Premier League (IPL). Following his departure from the Delhi Capitals (DC), Ponting revealed that his availability had develop into a difficulty, main the franchise to hunt a full-time head coach.
Ponting will take cost of PBKS ranging from IPL 2025, after ending his seven-year affiliation with DC two months in the past.His appointment marks the third head coach for PBKS inside 4 seasons, because the workforce completed ninth within the 2024 IPL season and has not certified for the playoffs since 2014.
One in all Ponting’s main duties might be figuring out gamers for retention forward of the upcoming season, pending the finalisation of the IPL’s retention guidelines, reported ANI.
Ponting started his IPL journey as a participant with the Kolkata Knight Riders within the inaugural 2008 season. He later joined the Mumbai Indians, stepping down as captain in 2013 to permit Rohit Sharma to guide the workforce to their first title. He continued with MI as an advisor in 2014 after which as head coach in 2015 and 2016.
In 2018, Ponting took over as head coach of the Delhi Capitals, guiding the workforce to a few consecutive playoff appearances from 2019 to 2021, together with their first ultimate in 2020.
Ponting’s stint with DC led to July 2024, after which he led the Washington Freedom to a title-winning marketing campaign within the Main League Cricket (MLC).
“I felt like we created a very good household atmosphere there. As I stated, I perceive what they need; they stated to me that my availability was changing into a difficulty. And so they wished to just about have a full-time head coach. I couldn’t decide to that, so I used to be dissatisfied that it ended, however I perceive the route they wished to go going ahead.”
“Everybody that I’ve been there with, has had a good time. You will have solely to take a look at a number of the social media posts that Delhi put out straightaway to grasp that a whole lot of the folks concerned within the franchise have been dissatisfied that I wasn’t persevering with as properly. However the selections have been made.”
Ponting acknowledged the stress of profitable a trophy as a coach however welcomed it.
“That’s the factor that makes teaching inviting to me. I like having that stress. It’s as near getting again to enjoying as you’ll be able to presumably get. From the second I completed enjoying, when that competitors stops in your life, it’s actually onerous to exchange that once more. The closest factor I might discover to enjoying was getting again within the cricket workforce’s altering room being a coach and feeling like you might be really enjoying once more. And training towards guys that I might need performed towards and guys which might be teaching that I performed against–I wish to beat them. Easy. A cricket altering room is the place I am presupposed to be.”
Reflecting on his IPL journey, Ponting referred to as teaching MI an “superior expertise” and described the DC altering room as a “particular place” regardless of not profitable a trophy.
“However we made a few large slip-ups in our mega-auction a few years in the past [2022] and even most likely our participant retentions, and that set us again fairly a method. And even this yr [2024], little issues went towards us once more, with Rishabh [Pant, DC captain] being suspended for a recreation that we needed to win. We missed the playoffs on run price. Little issues like that add up. The ends in T20 video games are determined by actually small margins. After which our season could be outlined by actually small margins as properly. And we now have been on the incorrect finish of these for a few years at DC.”
Ponting famous that teaching within the IPL has advanced and is now extra particular, with groups masking each facet by appointing specialised coaches.
“So you could have a whole lot of one of the best coaches on the planet there without delay. And when you could have one of the best coaches and one of the best gamers, you might be assured to have high-quality cricket. What the IPL has accomplished by having all of those coaches is, I feel, the rationale that India are literally nearly as good as they’re. There has at all times been that expertise in India, however to have that expertise round one of the best coaches for 2 or three months yearly has helped them develop into higher gamers.”
Ponting additionally talked about that many IPL franchises are shifting in the direction of having a full-time teaching employees. He himself thought-about not taking such a job as a consequence of his different commitments and want for household time.
Key performers for Punjab final season included Harshal Patel, who gained the Purple Cap for the second time, and the uncapped Indian gamers Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma.
The squad additionally consists of skills like left-arm quick bowler Arshdeep Singh, wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma, and leg-spinner Rahul Chahar. Notable abroad gamers within the workforce are England’s Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Jonny Bairstow, and South African pacer Kagiso Rabada.
With Shikhar Dhawan’s latest retirement, figuring out a brand new captain may also be a precedence for Ponting and the workforce administration.