Rishabh Pant Selection: Former Indian cricketer Amit Mishra stated that Rishabh Pant should change his game or take the risk of getting dropped from the test team. Pant made his international debut in the year 2017 and since then has become a key part of the team in the test squad, with just a few appearances in T20Is and ODIs.
Rishabh Pant Selection
The wicketkeeper batter has eight centuries to his name in test cricket—the most by an Indian and the joint third highest overall. Despite such good numbers by Pant in Test cricket, Amit Mishra feels that the wicketkeeper batter needs to change his approach, as the opposition teams are monitoring him and planning things accordingly.
“Have Very High Expectations From Pant”: Amit Mishra
Amit Mishra said,
“I have very high expectations from Rishabh Pant. Given the kind of player he is, he will also have to modify his game. Now, you can’t really call him a youngster anymore—he has been in the team since 2018. That’s what I’m saying: after a certain point in time, it becomes very important to modify your game.”
Further, he said,
“The opposition teams are watching you closely. They are observing you, understanding your game, and planning against you—where you hit fast bowling and which balls you don’t attack; they notice everything. So you also need to be aware of that. You can’t keep saying, ‘I got out the same way again here. That’s something you must avoid.”
Mishra also advised the Indian wicketkeeper batter not to have a stubborn attitude in regard to his batting style.
He said,
“If a particular shot doesn’t work on a certain pitch, then don’t play it. You can’t insist on saying, ‘This is how I play; this is my game.’ Then go ahead and do it—you will do it for four or five matches more and eventually get dropped. You can’t expect it to work everywhere. You won’t get the same kind of wicket everywhere where you can keep hitting fours and sixes. At some places, you’ll get turning tracks; at others, there will be bounce or swing. How you handle those conditions—that’s up to you.”
Pant did not have a good comeback to the field, as he only scored 49 runs from two tests in the recently concluded series against South Africa. Rather than his performance, he was also handed over the captaincy in the absence of Shubman Gill in the team. Under his captaincy, India was whitewashed by 0-2 in the series.
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