‘Zabardast, ab Delhi tournament jitega’ – Delhi franchise announce new captain ahead of the Indian T20 League 2023
The Delhi franchise announced their captain in the Indian T20 league on Thursday. David Warner will lead Delhi this season as Rishabh Pant is yet to recover from the injuries that he sustained in the near-fatal car accident that happened in December 2022. Delhi had a good season in 2008 when they made it to the semi-finals and also in 2020 when they were finalists.
Warner has had a wonderful time as captain in the Indian T20 league as he led the Hyderabad franchise to a title win in 2016. In 2016, The Australian overseas player was a beast in 2016 where he scored 848 runs in 17 games with an average of 60.57 and a strike rate of 151.42.
David Warner has scored 1867 runs for Delhi in Indian T20 League
In that season, he scored nine half-centuries and had the highest score of an unbeaten 93. Warner is no stranger to the Delhi side having started his Indian T20 league career with the Delhi only. He has played 67 matches and made 1867 runs at a strike rate of 136.77 and an average of 31.64. He has scored two hundreds and 15 fifties for Delhi with a highest score of unbeaten 109.
Warner did not want to take up Australian captaincy and said that he would not challenge his captaincy ban. But in the Indian T20 League, he is still favoured as a captain even at the age of 36. When he was banned after the Sandpaper Gate scandal and he could not play for Australia that year, he was a hot favourite across T20 Leagues.
The Capitals have also assigned Warner the task of captaining the side, which is coached by former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Delhi were, earlier, led by Shreyas Iyer from 2018 to 2020 and in 2021, Pant became Delhi skipper as Iyer was sidelined due to a shoulder injury. Pant has led the side for two editions and also has been a wicketkeeper for Delhi.
Let us take a look at the reactions here:
Delhi Daredevils days 😍
— C H E E K U (@CHEEKUzFAN) February 23, 2023
@davidwarner31 will be out there to prove, specially after what @CricketAus did with him.
— Ankit Gattani (@AOGattani) February 23, 2023
Very good decision
David bhai rampage mode on 🔥🔥 @davidwarner31— Venkat Kick🤘 (@venkatkick17) February 23, 2023
David Warner Redemption Season 🔥
— Vinit Agarwal (@Vinwinit) February 23, 2023
https://twitter.com/BhandageShankar/status/1628650101911752704?s=20
Salt is a better T20 opener than Warner as of right now. Axar should have been made (c).
— sage (@iguszkaburner) February 23, 2023
Jabardast…
Waiting for SRH vs DC now..
Hoping for Warner special 100 in the same 🔥🔥🔥— Vishal Jain (@vvj_61193) February 23, 2023
Axar Patel should have made the captain & David Warner vice captain. That would have been better for Delhi Capitals. Why out of form Warner has been named as a Captain 👑🤔😔🙄
— Sunil Chowta (@ChowtaSunil) February 23, 2023
Paper Captain. Rishabh will lead from dugout
— 17×28 (@Rish_Roh) February 23, 2023
Whoaa Axar as Vice Captain is a good option but cud they have made Shaw as captain considering the future?
— Sanskar Gemawat (@thatSanskariGuy) February 23, 2023
David Warner is an accomplished white-ball player. Under his captaincy, another IPL team won the title once. Fair enough. But Indian franchises need to look at their own players too today, as opposed to thrusting leadership to foreign players. Why not have Axar as captain?
— Bidipto Datta (@BidiptoDatta) February 23, 2023
