Delhi Capitals: Delhi Capitals announced the new captain of their team today (16 March). The Delhi franchise has chosen David Warner as the captain of its team for IPL 2023. Warner got this responsibility due to Rishabh Pant being out of IPL 2023. David Warner is one of the most successful players of IPL and he has also captained in IPL matches before. He will make up for the lack of Rishabh Pant as a captain, but there will definitely be a churning going on in the Delhi camp as to how he will fill the void that Delhi used to get from Rishabh’s explosive batting in the middle order. >
Who can fill the gap of Rishabh Pant?
Rishabh Pant usually bats between third to fifth order for Delhi. The kind of batting he used to bat in this middle order, only South African batsman Riley Rossouw and English wicketkeeper batsman Phil Salt can do that kind of batting from the Delhi squad. But both of these players are foreigners, so if one of these two is played, then Delhi will have to put another foreign player on the bench, which will not be easy. David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Rovman Powell and Anrich Norkhia were the four overseas players for Delhi last season, who were part of the playing-11 consistently.
That means, in place of Rishabh Pant, only an Indian player will have to handle this responsibility. In such a situation, the Delhi franchise will have options like Sarfaraz Khan, Manish Pandey and Yash Dhull. All these three players are expert in batting but they are not able to bat in the same manner as Rishabh Pant. In such a situation, Delhi is definitely going to miss Rishabh Pant as a batsman.
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