Xtra Time Web Desk: As Rishabh Pant continues his recovery from the horrific road accident earlier this year, his IPL franchise Delhi Capitals on Saturday took a great gesture showing their support towards Pant. During the match against Lucknow Super Giants, DC team management hanged Rishabh’s Jersey No 17 on the dugout.
The franchise tweeted a picture of the jersey with the caption, ‘Always in our dugout. Always in our team’.
With Pant out of the season, David Warner was named the franchise’s captain for this year.
The DC’s gesture certainly took the internet by storm and fans flooded Twitter with good wishes for the recovering player. It is to be noted that DC head coach Ricky Ponting had already stated earlier that replacing Pant is nearly ‘impossible’ for them.
“He’s a huge loss and it doesn’t matter who we bring in in that role, we will still miss Rishabh. I am not going to try and gloss over that fact, he’s one of the best players in the world in all three formats and he’s obviously our leader. So, trying to replace him is pretty much impossible. But what we try to do at DC is make sure we have got the best young talent available and get to work on them for a couple of years and make them better and we have got a few of them now,” said Ponting