"I Am Not Batting Today": Ricky Ponting Reveals His Struggles With Prithvi Shaw At Delhi Capitals

IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting spoke about Prithvi Shaw's peculiar approach to batting in the nets last season as his batting form dipped.

Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting threw some light on opening batsman Prithvi Shaw's struggles in the last IPL season, revealing that when Shaw had been going through a lean patch he refused to bat in the nets. Shaw's peculiar approach of batting in the nets only when he was scoring in games had Ponting perplexed, and the former Australia captain hoped that his Indian understudy would have changed his approach coming into this season. Shaw averaged just 17.53 from 13 games last season but comes into the IPL on the back of a record-breaking run in Vijay Hazare Trophy.  "I've had some really interesting chats with him through last year's IPL, just trying to break him down, trying to find out exactly what was the right way to coach him and how I was going to get the best out of him," Ponting told cricket.com.au.  "But he had an interesting theory on his batting last year - when he's not scoring runs, he won't bat, and when he is scoring runs, he wants to keep batting all the time.