The South African pace duo — Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada on Tuesday arrived in Mumbai to join their Delhi Capitals (DC) squad for the upcoming 14th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The DC twitter handel posted a photo of the two players and captioned the post as: “Name this duo that has just arrived back to our DC Family. Wrong answers only.”
Last week, the DC members had started training outdoors after completing their seven-daymandatory quarantine in Mumbai.
On Saturday, DC’s assistant coach Mohammad Kaif, who attended his first practice session with the team at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai, said that the franchise is aiming to win the prestigious title after missing it narrowly last year.
“We want to go one step further this year and that’s the Delhi Capi’ team goal. We have the players to win the title. We were very close last year and the plus point for this season is that most of the players such as Rishabh Pant have been playing a lot of cricket. They have been in touch with the game and therefore they are in good rhythm going into the IPL,” Kaif said in an official DC release.
He further added that his side focussed on taking catches under lights during their practice session.
“The players have been carrying out batting and bowling drills in the last few days. As a coaching group, we decided to focus on fielding skills in today’s practice session. The players took some catches under lights. It was a great session. I got to meet many young players in the team and the experienced ones as well. I had a good chat with Ravichandran Ashwin and Ajinkya Rahane,” he added.
Significantly, the Rishabh Pant-led DC will begin their IPL 2021 campaign against three-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 10.