🏏Tata IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings, 13th Match🏏
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Delhi Capitals have had an interesting relationship with their "home" venue.
Back in 2019, when they did get a full season at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Ricky Ponting wasn't shy of making his displeasure known about the slow and sluggish pitches that worked against a side full of stroke-makers.
And as if on cue, the pandemic and the covid protocols ensured that they didn't play a single game at the venue for the next three years.
When DC returned to their usual home base last year, they did so without Rishabh Pant and looked lost as a side. Perhaps losing five of the seven matches was defensible.
This year, then, made for the perfect opportunity for reconciliation, especially with the return of Pant and the work that went into quickening up Delhi's pitches before the World Cup.
That fence-mending between a side and its troubled history with its home venue is going to happen but only later. Because the Women's Premier League just got over there and the pitches in Delhi need to recuperate. So for now, DC starts this home stretch at Visakhapatnam, a place Ponting has embraced.
"This is our second home for this tournament, we know that. This is a home ground tomorrow, not a neutral ground by any chance," the head coach said. "We have our first two games here, and we are going to make sure that this is the place we can win. Tournaments have been won mainly by teams at home, and we are at home tomorrow, and we expect to win the game."
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