Xtra Time Web Desk: Delhi Capitals Head Coach Ricky Ponting has blamed the poor execution by his bowlers in the first few overs for the 57 runs loss against Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2020 Qualifier 1 played at Dubai International Stadium on Thursday. The huge margin of loss will definitely have a devastating effect on Shreyas Iyer and his boys. However, Delhi Capitals will have another opportunity to go to the final when they take on the winner of the Eliminator 1 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad which will be played on Friday at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
“It was mainly the execution through our first few overs, the first over went for 15-16, so you are on the back foot pretty much straight away there. We did fight our way back into the game.
“We crawled our way back, from sort of 7-14 (overs) were in our favour, they were only about 120/4, so we were hoping for 170 total, which might have been in our ballpark,” Ponting said at the post-match press conference.
Delhi ended up leaking 78 runs in the last five overs.
“…Our execution in the last four to five overs was miles off where we needed it to be. We continuously fed Hardik Pandya where he wants the ball, even Ishan Kishan kept getting away from us and he has played well in all the games we have played against MI, so far in this season,” he said.