Even after losing badly to KKR, Rishabh Pant did not accept his mistake, blamed him
KKR vs DC: Even after the crushing defeat against KKR, the Delhi Capitals captain has defended the decision of batting first. Along with this, he has put the entire blame on his batsmen.
Monday night's game between the Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders took place at Eden Garden in Kolkata. Delhi, having won two straight games to travel to Kolkata, was hoping for a hat-trick of victories, but KKR controlled the game from the start and won lopsidedly. This time, Rishabh Pant won the toss and decided to bat first. The DC captain may have had a different idea in mind than the Eden Gardens captain, who typically likes to bowl first after winning the toss. Delhi lost by 7 wickets batting first because they were unable to even reach 160. Even following this loss, Rishabh Pant was spotted justifying his choice to open the batting. He said it was not a bad idea to bat first.
After the crushing defeat at the hands of KKR, Rishabh Pant said that it was a good option to bat first after winning the toss, as a batting unit we did not bat well. A score of 150 was quite low considering things, but we learn from mistakes, every day is not ours.
He further said that it was great to see the way we were progressing as a team, as we had won 4 out of the last 5 matches. But, such games come in T20. I believe anything around 180-210 would be a good score. In this match, our bowlers did not have enough runs to defend.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and batted first and scored 153 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. That too when Delhi used its impact player while batting, who scored only one run. Kuldeep Yadav played an unbeaten inning of 35 runs for Delhi. In response, KKR achieved the target of 154 runs with 21 balls remaining. Philip Salt played an inning of 68 runs in 33 balls.
