david warner I will lead Delhi Capitals 2023 IPLinjured site Rishabh Pant, ESPNcricinfo has learned that head coach Ricky Ponting and the management believe Warner is the best person to be appointed as the interim captain as Pant is slowly improving his health. terrible car accident In December.
with pant Refused to play cricket in 2023The Capitals had to look for an interim captain and Warner was one of the contenders, potentially including Axar Patel, who is the vice-captain in 2022.
This will be the second time Warner will lead the Capitals, having been the interim captain for a few matches during the last year of his first stint with the franchise between 2009 and 2013 (then Delhi Daredevils). Warner was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2014 and appointed captain a year later. In 2016, Warner led Sunrisers to the title. Warner is the joint-fifth most successful captain in terms of matches won: in the 69 matches he led, Warner’s teams won 35, lost 32 and tied two.
Captaincy has never burdened the batsman and the numbers back up that claim: he has 2840 runs at an average of 47.33 and a strike rate of 142.28 with one century and 26 fifties. Ironically, however, it was his weak batting form in the first half of the 2021 IPL that forced Sunrisers to bench him, before he was replaced as captain by Kane Williamson. This resulted in a bitter tussle between Warner and Sunrisers, who released him ahead of the 2022 mega-auction, where the Capitals bought him for Rs 6.25 crore (around $762,000 then).
Warner was the highest run-getter for the Capitals in the last IPL with 432 runs at an average of 48 and a strike rate of 150.52 with five half-centuries. Capitals, however, a Heartbreaking defeat in the final league match in any case against Mumbai Indians
Warner had a tough first half of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, during which he had to return home after being caught on the elbow by a short ball from Mohammed Shami in the second Test in Delhi. Even though his Test career may be coming to an end fast, Warner’s white-ball career remains strong and he will be using his IPL experience to prepare himself and Australia for the ODI World Cup to be played in India in October-November. Would like to