In IPL 2022's 10th match at Pune, the Delhi Capitals lost their first game of the season, to the Gujarat Titans. DC was defeated by 14 runs while attempting to chase down 172 runs. As a result, the teams batting first won both of Saturday's games, defying the IPL 2022 win the toss and chase trend.

Despite the loss, the Delhi Capitals have remained in the top four. They are now in the fourth position, with many more matches to be played.

Pant batted valiantly for 43 runs off 29 balls but was dismissed at the wrong time for DC. Pant talked on how his team didn't get off to a good start and didn't score during the post-match presentation.

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"I think according to the wicket that total was not so big. We could have batted well specially in the middle overs, we lost three wickets in the powerplay and three in the middle. I think every match is going to be hard after losing so many wickets. Depending on the weather conditions (we will decide to bat or bowl first), but we are not thinking about that now and we will see when we come back to Pune,” said Pant during the post-match presentation.

Ricky Ponting's contribution in keeping the team's morale up following their first loss of the season was also mentioned by the southpaw. Despite the loss, Pant stated Ponting maintained a positive atmosphere in the dressing room heading into the following game.

“He (Ponting) has been amazing since day one. When you lose you feel heartbroken but at the end of the day if you keep improving and have a better environment then people can perform in the next match” Pant said.

On April 7, the Delhi Capitals play the Lucknow Super Giants at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai. The Titans will play Punjab Kings in their next Tata IPL 2022 match on April 8 at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai.