What could be worse for a franchise than Mustafizur Rahman’s Delhi Capitals? The team has lost all five matches in this year’s IPL. Who is responsible for this? Players or coaches? Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag feels that coach Ricky Ponting is responsible for the loss. Delhi faced Lucknow Super Giants in their first match of this season. The franchise lost in that match by a big margin of 50 runs. Then they lost against Gujarat by 6 wickets, against Rajasthan by 57 runs, against Mumbai Indians, and in the last match against Royal Challengers Bangalore by 23 runs. After five consecutive losses, Sehwag criticized Ponting and Sourav. In an interview with Cricbuzz, Sehwag said, ‘Just as coaches get credit when a team wins, they also get the blame when they lose. As said many times, Ponting did a great job in Delhi. Under him, the team reached the finals, almost every year in the playoffs. All credit to him. Now he should take responsibility for this bad situation. If the Indian team wins, the coaches get credit, and if they lose, the responsibility goes to someone else – said Sehwag. He said, “If the Indian team wins, the coaches get credit, but if they lose, someone else is blamed.” Delhi is not the Indian team, here the coach has to take responsibility for the loss.

Even if Sehwag blames the coach, can the players somehow avoid it? The team’s recruits are playing in this tournament. David Warner is the second-highest run-getter in the game with 228 runs but his strike rate is only 116.82. Which is not T20-friendly at all. Besides Enrich Norkia and Mustafizur Rahman, none of the bowlers are in good form. Tiger pacer Mustafizur Rahman got a chance in two matches and spent runs in Dedarse. He conceded 41 runs in just 3 overs against Bengaluru, which is why Delhi captain Warner did not call him to play the fourth over. Earlier, he almost single-handedly knocked the team out of victory with 38 runs in 4 overs against Mumbai.