'Our best game of the season so far'- Ricky Ponting on DC's crushing win over PBKS

Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting is delighted with his team's character in their encounter against the Punjab Kings despite a less than ideal build-up to the game.

The former Australian captain took to his Twitter account to not only hail his side for putting in a clinical performance despite adversities off the field, but he also went on to claim that it's the best game that DC have played so far.

"Proud of the boys for the way they performed after the interrupted build up. Our best game of the season so far," said Ponting.

For the uninitiated, the Capitals camp was infiltrated by the coronavirus pandemic leading into the fixture and all the players, support staff, hotel staff assigned to the franchise had to undergo several rounds of RT-PCR tests.

It all started when physio Patrick Farhart and the masseur tested positive on 15th and 16th April, respectively. This was followed by Mitchell Marsh testing positive with alarming symptoms. The Australian all-rounder was immediately hospitalized, and a fresh set of Tests were undertaken.

This was followed by Tim Seifert testing positive. The encounter, which had been moved from Pune to Navi Mumbai, was all set to be called off before the result of the latest test, which were sent to a local hospital, came out to be negative 45 minutes before the toss.

The adversity seemed to have brought the players together as they completely outplayed their counterparts to pick up crucial two points.

The win was set up by their bowling attack led by Axar Patel as they dismissed PBKS to a mere 115.

Prithvi Shaw (41 off 20) and David Warner (60* off 30) proceeded to make a mockery of the target, ensuring that DC breeze past the target in just 10.3 overs and with nine wickets still in the bank.