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The Delhi Capitals, who are aiming to win their first trophy under the leadership of Rishabh Pund in the IPL 2022 series, lost to last-placed Mumbai in a series of defeats as they could have finished 4th if they won their last league match. So the team that gave luck to the 5th ranked Bangalore left with disappointment. So the team’s dream of winning the first trophy came true again.
Warner in Delhi:
David Warner, the Australian star who was signed for the team for Rs 6.25 crore this year, played well for the country, amassing 432 runs at 48.00 with a superb strike rate of 150.52, including 5 fifties in the remaining 12 matches he missed in the opening 3 matches.
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The team management who removed him halfway from the captaincy post and eventually removed him from the bench for humiliating him after he had won 3 orange caps in the run rain for Sunrisers Hyderabad team from 2014 to 2021 and won the championship in 2016 approximately last year.
Undeterred, he won the Man of the Series award for the 2021 T20 World Cup won by Australia and is currently back on the Delhi team that started his IPL journey in 2009. In particular, he is open-minded about playing again after 2013 for the Delhi team, which has coached Australian greats Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson.
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Liked and played:
He is currently returning home after completing the IPL series. “I really enjoyed my time in Delhi. There were a lot of familiar faces, including coach Ricky Ponting. It gave the impression of playing on home soil with Australian players.
There were a lot of young faces, including Rishabh Pundt as captain. An interesting young player, he has been leading Delhi better since 2020. It’s great to be a part of that team. “
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Having played for the Hyderabad team for the last several years, he has a lot of fans there. Also, the entire league round of the IPL was played in Mumbai only. Due to that he spoke to the question of whether there was the same support of the fans when he played for the first time after many years for the Delhi team.
“It simply came to our notice then. There are 3 specific teams – Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings. Wherever they play, the ground is your team’s ground and the fans in it support them positively. So you are against it. And you don’t want to come against them often. “
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Mass fans:
In other words, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai have more fan base than the rest of the teams in the IPL.
For example, fans who had gathered at the Wankhede Stadium in the Mumbai-Delhi clash, which had snatched away Delhi’s play-off chances, backed Mumbai and Bangalore as Delhi had to lose.
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Similarly, when the Delhi-Chennai teams clashed at the Wankhede Stadium, he was amazed that most of the fans supported Chennai instead of themselves. Mumbai and Chennai have won 5 and 4 trophies respectively and the main reason for that is that Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli are the top 3 Indian stars playing in those teams.
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