Gone are the times when India and Australia Cricketers used to stare, glare and sledge at every different. The simply concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy sequence was once some of the friendliest ever held and there have been smiles and hugs throughout.
One vintage instance of the IPL serving to a cricketer turn out to be a greater batsman is Axar Patel,
Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting on Tuesday printed how “little technical changes” had been made whilst taking part in for delhi capitals helped Axar turn out to be an efficient batter for India.
Ponting is hoping to “get a bit more out of him” when he turns up for Delhi Capitals on this IPL.
Axar (264 runs) inspired throughout the Border-Gavaskar Test sequence in opposition to Australia, slamming 3 half-centuries to emerge as the second one easiest scorer for India at the back of Virat Kohli (297 runs) from 5 innings.
“I’ve known Axar for a long time and he was only a young boy in the squad at Mumbai when I first went there,” Ponting advised the ICC Review,
“I’ve known that there’s been a certain amount of batting skill there that really, apart from the last couple of years, he hadn’t really been showing at IPL level or even at international level.
“There had been a couple of little method adjustments that we made with him. We simply spread out his hips and his shoulders a little bit bit. So he was once a little bit extra chest-on in opposition to the right-arm speedy bowlers.”
The 29-year-old bowling all-rounder did not make his IPL debut for MI in 2013. He flourished during his five-year stint at Kings XI Punjab and emerged as one of the best white-ball performers with some good show for the Delhi Capitals over the last four seasons.
Ponting, who is the coach of Delhi Capitals, said Axar used to struggle against the short ball early in his career.
“If there was once ever a weak spot in his sport, it was once the fast ball that was once form of directed at his frame. The explanation why that he was once a little bit vulnerable in that house was once he was once too side-on, and the ball was once all the time form of in at the back of his appropriate shoulder,” Ponting said.
“We simply attempted to open him up a little bit bit, which gave him a little bit bit extra get admission to to the ball. He’s all the time been a lovely offside participant. You know, his quilt using and reducing is as just right as someone’s. And if anything else, he was once just a bit bit too blocked off so to ranking neatly at the leg facet.
“We tweaked a few things there and because he’s such a good young person to work with, and he’s obviously very talented, so therefore he was a fast learner and was able to pick things up really quickly and change his technique enough to show really, really good improvement really early on.”
“I want to get a bit more out of him at DC this year”
Impressed together with his batting, Ponting desires to advertise Axar a little bit up the order to get extra out of him on this IPL.
“I want to get a bit more out of him at the Delhi Capitals this year, that’s for sure,” Ponting stated.
“A few times last year we sort of batted him up a little bit higher. I think he’s good enough to bat No.6 probably in an IPL team.”
Ponting additionally feels Axar is in a position to batting at No.6 or No.7 for India within the longest layout.
“He’s good enough to bat at six or seven in a Test match team as well,” he stated.
“The higher he bats in first-class cricket, and if he plays some more Test cricket even outside of India, then I think he could hold down a six or seven spot in a Test team as well.
“He’s this kind of participant that I believe may make numerous first class loads. That’s the place it has got to begin for him, possibly get some make stronger in his state staff and possibly bat a little bit bit up the order there.”
(With PTI inputs)