The Delhi Capitals will be ready for a tough test in the 2020 IPL Qualifier on Thursday in Abu Dhabi against the defending champions Mumbai Indians, who led the league stage to finish with 18 points. MI holds the ending over DC mainly for two reasons. One is because MI has already beaten DC twice this season and, second, compared to MI’s series of league stage wins, the Capitals have lost their previous four games out of five.
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However, former India starter batsman Aakash Chopra feels that individually the Capitals have a much better bowling unit, with players like Anrich Nortje and Purple Cap holder Kagiso Rabada being the top two pacemakers. of DC, along with the core force, which is their national hitting. lineup comprising some big names.
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“If we do a man-to-man markup, the Delhi Capitals bowling unit looks better to me than the Indians of Mumbai. Because they have the ability to take terrain from Rabada, Nortje is super fast and a land taker and the two spinners are amazing. Before it was even better when they had Mishra available as an option, ”Chopra said in his YouTube video.
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“The other is his Indian batting core. It has failed in the middle. I totally understand it if you feel like it’s a fortress. “But it’s a fortress when you can have Prithvi Shaw with Shikhar Dhawan, then Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, and Rishabh Pant. No team has 5 top-order Indian hitters, this team doesn’t need a foreign player in the top five. So if you see that, the Indian batting core is outstanding.
“Many of them also have experience. Shikhar Dhawan is an experienced player, Shreyas Iyer is now an experienced player and captain too, Rishabh Pant has also played for quite a few years, Prithvi Shaw is also not a rookie, and Ajinkya Rahane has been playing for a long time. time. So they have experience, pedigree and class. ”
But while some of these names have been brilliant, Chopra acknowledges that DC has suffered a few lapses along the way, most notably the lack of runs from Prithvi Shaw at the top and Rishabh Pant in the middle order. Shaw started the tournament showing sparks, but is now in the middle of a horrible batting slump with his last six innings reading, 4, 0, 0, 7, 10, 9.
Pant, on the other hand, has had a few starts, but his inability to get going and rotate the strike has hurt DC. Pant has a reputation for being a great, clean striker on the ball, but this year, that skill seems to have eluded him. Captain Shreyas Iyer has scored 421 runs this season, but even he has found it difficult to move.
“The weakness is that some players have had a slight drop in form as of late. I’m a little worried about Prithvi Shaw who keeps playing his shots and plays a high-stakes game, doesn’t bother going out but comes out more often, ”explained Chopra.
“Rishabh Pant hasn’t really seen himself. So these are the two biggest concerns. Shreyas Iyer has scored more than 400 runs. But the impact blows from him have been far and few from each other. So I expect more because the standards are high for him. “
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