Delhi Capitals head coach and former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has said that the challenges a coach faces while handling a franchise makes the job more difficult than coaching a national team. “I think it is a lot more difficult being a coach of a franchise team because the different nationalities involved, a few Australian coaches, couple of Australian players, couple of South African players, we have New Zealanders, we have Nepalese part of our squad over the journey,” he said.

‘Hard to make big skill changes’ 

Ponting led Australia when they topped the Test match charts apart from leading his country to ODI World Cup triumphs in 2003 and 2007. He was a member of Steve Waugh’s World Cup-winning squad in 1999. “The hardest part of coaching with the franchise is getting the players together for a few days before the first game of the season, when you are trying to create culture around the team, you haven’t got much time with the players. It’s really hard to do that, it is also hard to make big skill changes in such a short period of time,” he said, listing the difficulties of the job.