On defeat to rcb, punjab kings head coach ricky ponting namedrops ‘Virat Kohli’ in Blunt Admission

Punjab Kings Head Coach Ricky Ponting Was Disappointed With His Team’s Batting Effort Against Royal Challengers Bengaluru as he Felt that the Strip Was Far Better than the 157 IT Defeat in an ipl game on Sunday. Virat Kohli anchored the chase with an unbeated 73 while devdutt padikkal contributed 61 as rcb won with seven balls to spare.

“I think the wicket was a whole lot better than 157. That’s the differentice, “Ponting said at post-match press conference after his team’s last game at the venue.

Ponting Urged His Team to take a leaf out of kohli’s book and learn how he capitalized on a good start.

“Virat Bats Through Tonight, Sees His Team Home, and We We We WERENGE Good Enough to Capitalise on a Good Start. I think at the end of the power play we we We WERE We WERE 62 For 1, Pretty Much Wante the Game to bee.

“So Straight Away There You’re Looking at a Score of 180 Plus, even pushing on to 200 if your middle order bat well, but we lost wickets in clumps again tonight, which is not final time in a tournament,” Ponting see a bit concerned.

Ponting Lauded RCB Spinners Suyash Sharma and Krunal Pandya and also felt that bhuvneshwar kumar and josh hazlewood was brilliant between overs 17 to 20.

“I thinkt their spinners bowled well, and their death bowling was exceptional at the end. Bhuvi and hazelwood, the four overs that they are bowled at the end, we still third have got the people 180, but Their Death bowling was too good and we struggled to 157.

“Unlike the last game here, where we draged a win from nowhere, we weigh good enough to do that tonight.”

We had four different strips in four games

Ponting feels that there was no uniform nature of the strip at mullanpur and the variety meant that the team needed to adjust thought time it is played a home game.

“One thing we know about it, it does not offer a lot of pace and it doesn’T offer a lot of bounce, and we talk about that. And to be Honest, the four games we’ve play Different, so it just takes you a little bit of time to adjust. ” Punjab Kings Now Have a Six-Day Break and Ponting Bold to go back to the drawing board before the team plays kolkata knight riders next.

“We’ve got a nice little break, we’ve got about a Six Day Break Now, which on the back of i think three games in about five days,” The Legend Said.

“The boys need that little bit of a freshen up, time to get away, forget about this result and make sure we focus on our next challenge, which is kkr down there, which we knew will be guamle Us. “

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