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‘We’d still love to have him around during IPL’: Ricky Ponting on Rishabh Pant | Cricket News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting has spoken his heart out on India batter Rishabh Pant, who met with a life-threatening accident in December last year, saying that they would want to have him around in the DC dugout in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) starting in March-April.
Speaking on The ICC Review, Ponting said that he has been in touch with Pant during the 25-year-old’s recovery.
India wicket-keeper batter Pant was involved in a car crash on December 30 and suffered multiple serious injuries, however, he is making steady progress and is expected to make a return to the field eventually.
The timeframe on Pant’s return to cricket remains unclear, with his participation in this season’s IPL not yet completely ruled out.
“If he’s actually not physically fit enough to play, we’d still love to have him around. He’s the sort of cultural leader around the group, being the captain, and that attitude and infectious smile and laugh he has is what we all love so much about him,” Ponting said.
“I absolutely love the bloke, I told him that on the phone the last couple of days. It was a horrifying time, a really scary time for everybody, let alone him. Anyone that knows him loves him – he’s a really infectious young guy that has the world at his feet still. So we will keep our fingers crossed and hope that he can get back to playing sooner rather than later,” Ponting told The ICC Review.
“If he’s actually able to travel and be around the team, then I want him sitting beside me in the dugout every day of the week. I’ll certainly be making sure, come the middle of March when we get together in Delhi and start our camps and stuff, if he’s able to be there, then I want him around the whole time,” said the Aussie legend.
However, it is deemed extremely unlikely that DC skipper Pant will play in the IPL 2023 with the head coach Ponting already looking at alternative ways to make up for the loss of his star player.
“You can’t replace those guys, simple as that. They don’t grow on trees, players like that. We’ve got to look at – and we already are – a replacement to come into the squad, a wicketkeeper-batter,” Ponting said.
(With inputs from ANI)

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