Former Indian batsman Sehwag blamed Pant’s captaincy for DC’s defeat.

Key sentence:

• Virender Sehwag minced no words while sharing his thoughts on DC Pant’s captaincy against RCB.
• Sehwag lashed out at the young DC captain for not using his fundamental bowlers appropriately against RCB.
• Pacer Ashish Nehra featured DC’s lack of foresight in their pursuit.

Previous Indian batsman Virender Sehwag minced no words while sharing his musings on Delhi Capitals Rishabh Pant’s captaincy against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 match no. 

22 in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Notwithstanding half-hundreds of years from Pant (58*) and Shimron Hetmyer (53*), DC neglected to pull off a 172-show pursue and lost the game to only one run. 

Sehwag lashed out the young DC skipper:

Sehwag lashed out at the young DC captain for not using his fundamental bowlers appropriately against RCB and said he would not give five stamps out of 10 to Pant for his captaincy. 

“I will not give him even five checks out of 10 for his captaincy since you can commit such errors. If your principal bowler isn’t bowling, your estimations turn out badly – that is what is the issue here. 

It would be best if you dealt with that. A skipper should deal with his bowling assets as per the circumstance. 

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Sehwag on the Cricbuzz show:

“You need to discover that. Or, in all likelihood, you hand over the ball to whomsoever you need. The ability of a captain is estimated by how he turns the game around. He needs to make changes in the bowling or field position appropriately,” Sehwag told Cricbuzz. 

Sehwag further believed that Rishabh Pant needs to play brilliant cricket if he needs to be a keen chief. 

“In this way, if Rishabh Pant needs to turn into a decent commander, he needs to keep these little things to him. Play brilliant cricket; at that point, no one but you can turn into an intelligent captain,” he added. 

The previous India running opener said he would give Pant’sPant’s captaincy 3 out of 10. 

Ashish Nehra highlighted DC’sDC’s poor planning in their chase:

Then, previous Indian pacer Ashish Nehra featured DC’s lack of foresight in their pursuit, accusing Pant’sPant’s lethargic batting in the centre overs for their misfortune. 

Remarkably, both Pant (58* off 48) and Hetmyer (53* off 25) hammered the fifties and stayed unbeaten yet neglected to take DC over the line. 

Further, pacer Ashish Nehra stated:

“How Rishabh batted in the centre overs and the number of runs he passed up during the demise overs, that was only a helpless system. 

On the off chance that Shimron Hetmyer had lost his wicket early, we might have seen DC losing by 25 runs. 

“They arranged their pursuit inadequately as two of your set batsmen returned unbeaten, and you lost the game by one run. That shouldn’t have occurred in this configuration,” Nehra said.