India may have made a comeback in the ongoing five-match T20I series against South Africa at home but there is no end to Rishabh Pant’s batting. In four innings, stand-in India The captain scored a total of 57 runs, of which 29 came in the first T20I played in Delhi.
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One of the hallmarks of Pant’s dismissal has been that he chases after an out-of-wide delivery and gets stuck in the process. He has been doing it time and again that batting great Sunil Gavaskar criticized Pant for not learning from his mistakes.
“He didn’t learn anything from his last three dismissals. They throw wide, and he keeps going for it. He can’t throw enough muscle at him. He has to stop going in the air outside the off-stump,” said Gavaskar during a match on-air.
“They are all planning it, the South African bowler and Temba Bavuma… just bowl wide outside the off-stump and you will get it,” he said.
Former Australia spinner Brad Hogg believes that Pant should counter the strategy by taking a more off-side stance so that the bowlers, especially the left-arm pacers, are forced to bowl straighter to him.
He said, ‘He is getting out with wide deliveries many times. Well, left hand over the wicket, move your stance on the off-side so that you can cover those wide ones and make those left-arm bowlers straighter on the stumps so that you can pound them from the leg side which is your strength , Hogg said in a video on Instagram.
Meanwhile, former India cricketer Wasim Jaffer feels that in his current form it will be difficult for Pant to make it to the playing XI, as Dinesh Karthik has done more than enough to grab a spot.
“I think if you pick the next T20 squad, DK without a doubt is in the XI. KL Rahul comes back when he is fit, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, I think those 3-4 people come in the team. So, I think it will be difficult for Rishabh Pant to find a place in that XI,” Jaffer said. espncricinfo,
“I think DK has overlapped Rishabh Pant at least at the moment. I can’t say about the future, but for the time being you will pick DK any time in front of Rishabh Pant.
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