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The Royal Challengers Bengaluru: It hasn’t been a smooth sailing for Ricky Ponting, who’s been the head coach of the Delhi Capitals since 2018. Though DC reached the final in 2020 and made it to the playoffs of 2019 and 2021 editions, the franchise hasn’t been able to enter the knockouts in subsequent seasons.

This time, DC are at ninth place and have just a win over Chennai Super Kings to show. Ahead of their clash against Mumbai Indians on Sunday afternoon, Ponting’s former Australia team-mate Shane Watson, who worked as DC’s assistant coach in 2022 and 2023 season, admitted that it has been a challenging time for Ponting in the last few years, but backed him to force a turnaround in his side’s fortunes.

“It has been a couple of challenging years for Ricky Ponting at Delhi Capitals, for sure. But I am not sure if it will be his last year there. There is one thing which I know from a coaching perspective is, if your team doesn’t do well over a couple of years, then head coach will be the first person to be moved from the role. Ricky has had success in the start of his time with the Delhi Capitals, but it has been a more challenging time over the last couple of years.”