Beyond Match vs. GT, DC Skipper Axar Patel gives a big update to the availability of FAF du Plessis

Delhi Capital (DC) captain Axar Patel said that he is hoping that Vice-Captain FAF Do Plessis will return to his next game against Gujarat Titans (GT) on Saturday, saying that the physio will inform him about his match fitness status. Du Plessis has recalled DC matches against Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals due to an unintended injury, whose nature is still not made public. “Till now I was told that he could not play for three matches. He is recovering, so two matches are over. Perhaps against Gujarat, he can play, but he too will have to check the physio how he is reacting to injury,” Exer said at the post -match press conference.

Although Abishek Poral has fitted well as a opener in the absence of Du Plessis, once he gets fit, he can replace a struggling Jake Fraser-Makegurak, who has scored just 55 runs in six matches at a strike rate of 105.76. However, the Fraser-Macgarck will still get the possibility of good in future, “said Exer.

“My thinking is a bit different. Like, if there is no beginning, and yet, we are doing well, you have that cushion. When you have no beginning, and if you win, you have a cushion to go with the same team. Even I had the same idea – that box is not standing.

“But he is such a player that if you give him a chance and score big runs, he will flip the match completely in your favor. I know the box is not standing, but we keep talking to him – what he is thinking or not.

“Also, we have that cushion, and so, we can give him a little more chance. Whatever I give a chance, I will give him a decent run. As a player, he is a match winner and I see how important he is to me. We will still think about it – what to do or what not to do. But we have won now.”

This is the first time Exer has been playing a full-time leadership in the IPL and so far, left-arm spin bowling all-rounder said he is enjoying being in the role of leadership, where he is the main point for him to return the decision skills.

“When I played this role, you enjoy being a captain. I was doing all this for state cricket, and I know what to do and what not to do. When you get a chance to run the team according to you, and if you get a chance to play in the way you want to play cricket, let it go?

“I am doing what I am thinking. It’s not that you have to go with a template and do it. I am doing what I think is right and I am supporting myself. The experience is not so much that I am doing the first time.”

“So, it’s not that I am listening to others. Obviously, I listen, but I think when you have to make a decision, you return yourself. So, you will know what you are doing wrong and what you are doing. I make those decisions and enjoy it.”

Asked about how he reacts if some leadership decisions do not go accurately, then Exer said, “I don’t know about the rest, but I believe if you have made a mistake, there is no harm in accepting it. I would say that you can’t call it a mistake, as you can do, what you can do?

“But sometimes it works, sometimes it happens. Therefore, I cannot say this. You can say that your decision does not work. When it works, you feel that you have taken a good decision. Therefore, these are both ways. You get credits, while you get something else in criticism. But how is it fine, and how it is, and how it is.”

Against RR, Exer finally came with batting by scoring 34 runs in 14 balls, where Vanindu Hasranga and Mahesh Thekshana’s Techdown helped DC Post in 188/5, including 77 runs in the last five overs. Exer has accepted the idea of ​​promoting himself as a batsman, but chooses to keep the team’s demands first.

“It’s not so. See. See, as a player, when you play, you see what the team needs and I bat accordingly. As a captain, as a captain, the kind of batsman we have, I will go early if I am fit in the plan, otherwise. So, I take such decisions. Yes, I am a captain, as I am a captain and I can give myself.”

“But this is a team game and I decide keeping the team in mind. With the bat, I was not able to produce the same effect quickly. I don’t know if it was a soft dismissal or aggressive. But I was clear – I knew who I was, and I wanted to target.”

“When the fast bowler came, I felt that he had a good slow bouncer. So I did not target him, because he had 2 or 3 overs spinners. So I waited for him and I did not go to a fancy shot hit. I worked on my strength in batting, and did it.”

Exer also got his first wicket of the tournament by casting Ryan Parag and revealed the bowling struggle with his finger cut in the winning Champions Trophy campaign in Dubai. “During the Champions Trophy, I had a cut on my finger and the skin still did not come on it. So, I was saving myself and I was seeing that whenever the team needs me with the ball, I bowl.”

“But after bowling four overs against SRH, the skin layer was closed again. Due to this, I was not able to pressurize him and was bowling with the pace that I wanted. The way the finger is now, it’s good, it’s good and I think when I got the first wicket, if I had caught the catch in the field, if I had caught a catch in the field, I would also get a review, I would also have a review, I would also have a review,

“But that’s fine, it’s part of the game, and I don’t think that much. I think if I am bowling well, I don’t care much about the wickets. If I bowled the right ball, if I executed my plan correctly – and if I get yes on it, I don’t think I did not get wickets or not.”

Exer, stating that he was happy to win in the super over as a DC captain, although he said that fielding needed to improve. “I was the first time captain in this situation. But winning shows how the team’s morale and confidence is. In such a situation, you can tell how the character of the team is.”

“So, as a captain it was very good for me, as I came to know how the team can do in such a situation. I am very happy with my team the way they are playing cricket, and carrying out the plan. We have to improve fielding, but we will see in the next match.”

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