Coach Delhi Capitals assistant accused Motthew Mott for being qualified this season to play into play -off Indian Premier League. Mott, who spoke at a press conference before the match before their final game of the tournament, said the team did not have a green in the second half of the season.
Delhi Capitals started his style tournament this season and were ready to end in the first four. Delhi won 5 of his first six tournament games and then crashed and burned and won only one of the next 7.
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Too much playing with the order of bats resulted in some really bad performances, resulting in loss of large edges against teams like Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians late in the season.
Mott said that Delhi was very lucky at the beginning of the season, where they managed to bring home games, even though they were in terrible positions. Mott argued that happiness on the side later in the tournament, which resulted in several bad performances.
“I think during the second half of the campaign we were not lucky that we were in the first four or five games, which can often be in the T20s,” Mott said at a press conference before the match on Friday before Kings.
“He definitely got the back of the green in the first few games we played, and we are aware of it and we have to be a little better for us next year. It’s hard to sit down and think what it could be,” he added.
The former head coach in England said that the game of Panjab gave Delhi a chance to unsubscribe for a positive remark and look at their young dough Sameer Rizvi and Abishek Porel, who again showed a promise this season.
“There are still a lot of motivation (playing this last game). Yes, we had disappointing what was an encouraging campaign. We obviously went out of the early stage box, won a lot of games early, but the other half was uneven.
The coach assistant was asked to the availability of Axar Patel for the final tournament game. Patel did not play the last game against Mumbai after he descended with the disease. Mott said he wasn’t sure Axar would also play the last game of the season.
“The sincere answer is that I don’t know.
Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
23 May 2025
