'Sourav Ganguly faced Warner-impacted Ponting in DC...': Kaif uncovered Aussie legend in advance notice to PBKS

Mohammad Kaif criticised Ricky Ponting for following the same auction strategy as previous PBKS coaches.

Previous India cricketer Mohammad Kaif, on Monday, uncovered Australia legend Ricky Ponting's instructing style as he opened up on his organization with him at Delhi Capitals. Kaif uncovered how Overseer of Cricket Sourav Ganguly assumed a significant part in Delhi's raced to the last in 2020, and said that Ponting's greatest lament in his seven-year residency as lead trainer would be not winning the IPL prize.

Ponting had joined Delhi Capitals in 2018. Kaif had joined as the associate mentor for 2019 and 2020. In the mean time, Ganguly was named as the Head of Cricket in front of the 2019 season.

Talking in a video posted on his web-based entertainment handle, Kaif lauded Ganguly for showing the need of an Indian center in an IPL group to win the prize as he uncovered how the previous India chief and Ponting were in constant conflict over getting Shikhar Dhawan from Sunrisers Hyderabad in front of the 2019 season. While Ponting, guessed to be affected by countryman David Warner, who was then at SRH, figured Dhawan's profession was finished, Ganguly persuaded the establishment by illustrating his IPL vocation numbers as Delhi ultimately exchanged the veteran India opener.

"I figure Ponting would himself concede he might have improved on the grounds that the group we made, me, Ganguly...you will have a hard time believing there were times we could figure whom would it be advisable for us we drop. There was a bad situation for Ajinkya Rahane, Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, even Hetmyer. Then, at that point, when we went to the auction...this was Ganguly who chosen and I should applaud him for that. He said we need to back the Indian players. He conversed with Shikhar Dhawan, after which that exchange had occurred with Hyderabad," Kaif said.

"Presently we were stuck as yet suspecting assuming that we ought to make the exchange, and it was Ganguly who persuaded us that we really wanted him. Ponting disagreed. He felt his vocation was finished, on the grounds that it was correct when he was dropped from the Test group. As a matter of fact, this thing was featured in the gathering that Dhawan is a believed player who can score 500 runs in a season. David Warner was in Hyderabad, and I feel he probably affected Ponting against going with Dhawan. I feel he probably let Ponting know that he no longer remaining parts an extraordinary player.

However, Ganguly and Parth Jindal upheld Dhawan and exchanged him, and the India hitter demonstrated us right since we had arrived at the last that season where he scored a ton of runs. So I feel Ponting could have lamented that he would have improved in light of the fact that they didn't win a prize in those seven years. As a matter of fact, Ganguly ought to be attributed for carrying Ashwin to the group too."

Dhawan, who got back to Delhi in 2019, having played for the establishment in the debut season, had an impressive disagreement the Capitals. He scored 521 runs in 2019, 618 of every 2020, the year Delhi had arrived at the last, and 587 out of 2021 preceding he joined Punjab Lords.

'I hate that system'

Kaif conjectured that Delhi headed out in different directions from Ponting in light of the fact that they probably felt that the 49-year-old is as of now not fit for concocting title-winning approaches.

"The establishment proprietor probably felt Ponting no longer had great courses of action. Presently, Ponting is an enormous name. He is in that Sachin Tendulkar class. Presently, assuming an establishment tells him 'much thanks' and heads out in different directions, that implies they feel that he is looking level with his blueprints."

Talking on Ponting joining PBKS as the lead trainer, the veteran India hitter censured the Aussie of following similar strides as past Punjab mentors of not confiding in match-victors and being centered around having a greater handbag in front of the auction."Now, he went to Punjab, and he followed similar strategy as the old mentors, holding a couple of players and keeping a greater satchel. I felt they were off-base. Check out at the Mumbai Indians. Regardless of completing last, they held their center players since they accepted that they might in any case bring home a championship. They supported similar players regardless of their worth. What Ponting did is equivalent to past PBKS mentors and I really hate that. They might have held Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada and Liam Livingstone. It's just plain obvious, there is no assurance that an establishment can hold a similar player at a sale at a lesser cost," he said.

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