Delhi Capitals bowling coach James Hopes believes the under-fire team’s spearhead Anrich Nortje will improve with time after he recently made a comeback to competitive cricket after six months away. Nortje was taken to the cleaners at the death by Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals as he scored 48 runs in his four overs on Thursday evening. RR won the IPL match by 12 runs while defending 185 for 5. Nortje had been out of cricket since September and came into the IPL after playing just three domestic T20 matches earlier this month and failing to catch the yorkers or bowling the hard lengths that he is. famous for.
“I won’t say too much bad about the bowlers. They just tried to execute. It was a good first half with the ball but over the last five years it has eluded us a bit,” Hopes said after the 12-year-old match of his team. run loss to RR, where the complexion changed during the latter part of their bowling innings.
“It’s the first time in a while that Nortje has been at this level. He’s had quite a bit of time out of the game, but if you look at all the numbers, he’s one of the best death bowlers in the game. We’re confident about that. he will keep getting better,” said Hopes, a former Australia medium pacer, while defending the Proteas pacer.
Hopes also felt that, like bowling, the team’s batting also fell apart in the back 10 after a positive start.
“With the bat we started really well, we were at the front of the game and then fell away a bit in the middle. They threw about 10 overs of death bowling at us, and executed it well.” Hopes assessed that the endgame is an issue in both divisions after the first two defeats.
“We have to clean up what we do at the end of the match. It’s one match, I’m not even counting the first match because we had to take out a bowler to get an extra batter in and then Ishant (Sharma) went ) so I’m not going to judge us too harshly on one match.” The batting in the middle overs will largely depend on how comeback man Rishabh Pant does.
“We also need to clean up our middle order. We tend to get a bit stuck in phases there. We know the solution to that is Rishabh Pant,” Hopes said.
“He has played two games after a long break and I think you will see some special things from him in the coming weeks,” he concluded.
DC will take on Chennai Super Kings in their next match at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
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