Ricky Ponting Makes Bold Claim: Aggressive Batting Key to Winning IPL 2024

Ricky Ponting, the Delhi Capitals head coach, believes that the team that is ready to play a more "attacking batting" game will have an edge as the current Indian Premier League (IPL) title is played. It has been a season of havoc for batsmen on the other side; three out of ten matches had seen more than two hundred runs being scored in batting. 

Sunrisers Hyderabad shafted the IPL record for the biggest score of the tournament twice this season. They achieved 277/3 in Hyderabad against Mumbai Indians, which bested any other score of 263/5, by Chris Gayles in 2013 with a 175* contribution.

"It seems that the game tide will be shifting there." SRH has significantly contributed to at least two or three such [big scores]. KKR made us pay 260 runs and more [272 for 7 in an away match]. For my part, the effect of the impact player is changing the batting habits of the teams. You saw how Travis did that. bats. 

You can't play like that unless you ensure the guys below you are up to the mark and you bat deep in your order." Ponting explained at the pre-match press conference.

"Sometimes, small tournaments like the IPL and the Big Bash in Australia end with the teams that possess the best defensive bowling style being the winners." However, the way this IPL is going and the particular rules in the IPL it will be won by the team that is ready to take on the bowling and try to post some really big scores. I guess it will more likely be aggressive batting than defensive bowling that will decide the winner of the current IPL, as he noted.