IPL 2022: Rishabh Pant vs KL Rahul – An audition for the future as Delhi Capitals take on Lucknow Super Giants | Cricket News – Times of India
Both Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul are young leaders. They still have a lot of catching up to do. While Rahul’s captaincy acumen has come under a lot of scrutiny – especially when he was captaining Punjab Kings, and also during India’s recent tour to South Africa – Pant led Delhi Capitals to third place in the 2021 IPL.
This year Rahul is leading IPL newbies Lucknow Super Giants and has enjoyed a better start, captaincy-wise, than previous seasons. Although LSG lost their opening encounter to Gujarat Titans by a whisker, they came back with wins in the next two games against Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Rahul’s captaincy came in for praise during the match against SRH. His move to give the 18th over to Avesh Khan changed the course of the match. Hyderabad were cruising towards victory, needing 33 runs off the last three overs with six wickets remaining and two set batters – Nicholas Pooran and Washington Sundar – going smoothly at the crease. But Avesh first sent back Pooran to the pavilion and then got the wicket of big-hitter Abdul Samad off the next delivery to tilt the scales in Lucknow’s favour.
Rahul’s management of the bowlers during the SRH match, which was also affected by dew, was excellent.
In contrast, it has been a mixed start for Pant. In his first game of the season, against Mumbai Indians, Pant allowed MI to put up a score of 177/5 after being down 122/4 by the end of the 16th over. It seemed he was at his wits end during the slog overs. He also didn’t have any death-overs specialist at his disposal. His go-to death bowler in the 2021 season, Anrich Nortje, wasn’t fit and missed the game.
It was the brilliance of Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel that rescued DC from a sure-shot defeat to a memorable win against MI.
The second game saw Gujarat defend a score of 171, as Delhi lost the plot towards the end with the team needing 46 off the last five overs. Pant and his boys fell short by 14 runs.
As Delhi face Lucknow at the DY Patil Stadium on Thursday – in what would be their third match of the season – one less worry for Pant is the side’s death-overs bowling. Nortje is fit and likely to slot into the playing XI. Prithvi Shaw’s opening partner in the first two matches, Tim Seifert, has notched up scores of 21 and 3. With David Warner available, Seifert is most certainly going out.
If Nortje and Warner’s availability is going to be a boost for DC, Lucknow too will have Marcus Stoinis – who represented Delhi till the last season – joining their ranks.
Delhi might give Srikar Bharat or Sarfaraz Khan a chance in their middle-order, considering Mandeep Singh’s modest returns so far. A completely left-field choice might be to give Yash Dhull, India’s captain at the 2022 U-19 World Cup, a look in.
For Lucknow, Manish Pandey is likely to be on his way out after three poor outings. Ayush Badoni, who has looked a million dollars so far, may bat higher up the order with allrounders Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya and Jason Holder following him.
This year Rahul is leading IPL newbies Lucknow Super Giants and has enjoyed a better start, captaincy-wise, than previous seasons. Although LSG lost their opening encounter to Gujarat Titans by a whisker, they came back with wins in the next two games against Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Rahul’s captaincy came in for praise during the match against SRH. His move to give the 18th over to Avesh Khan changed the course of the match. Hyderabad were cruising towards victory, needing 33 runs off the last three overs with six wickets remaining and two set batters – Nicholas Pooran and Washington Sundar – going smoothly at the crease. But Avesh first sent back Pooran to the pavilion and then got the wicket of big-hitter Abdul Samad off the next delivery to tilt the scales in Lucknow’s favour.
Rahul’s management of the bowlers during the SRH match, which was also affected by dew, was excellent.
In contrast, it has been a mixed start for Pant. In his first game of the season, against Mumbai Indians, Pant allowed MI to put up a score of 177/5 after being down 122/4 by the end of the 16th over. It seemed he was at his wits end during the slog overs. He also didn’t have any death-overs specialist at his disposal. His go-to death bowler in the 2021 season, Anrich Nortje, wasn’t fit and missed the game.
It was the brilliance of Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel that rescued DC from a sure-shot defeat to a memorable win against MI.
The second game saw Gujarat defend a score of 171, as Delhi lost the plot towards the end with the team needing 46 off the last five overs. Pant and his boys fell short by 14 runs.
As Delhi face Lucknow at the DY Patil Stadium on Thursday – in what would be their third match of the season – one less worry for Pant is the side’s death-overs bowling. Nortje is fit and likely to slot into the playing XI. Prithvi Shaw’s opening partner in the first two matches, Tim Seifert, has notched up scores of 21 and 3. With David Warner available, Seifert is most certainly going out.
If Nortje and Warner’s availability is going to be a boost for DC, Lucknow too will have Marcus Stoinis – who represented Delhi till the last season – joining their ranks.
Delhi might give Srikar Bharat or Sarfaraz Khan a chance in their middle-order, considering Mandeep Singh’s modest returns so far. A completely left-field choice might be to give Yash Dhull, India’s captain at the 2022 U-19 World Cup, a look in.
For Lucknow, Manish Pandey is likely to be on his way out after three poor outings. Ayush Badoni, who has looked a million dollars so far, may bat higher up the order with allrounders Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya and Jason Holder following him.
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