He struggled against New Zealand in New Zealand and in WTC final as well. England bowlers have seen enough of him to know that he is weak against moving ball and also gives a chance to opposition initially in his inning. They can't afford to drop his catch as well otherwise he will make them pay for it just like he did to Australia in Australia.
Proven rightcomplete hacks, looks like a tailender.
And yet... no team would pick Rizwan over Rishabh in their side.
Including Pakistan
And yet... no team would pick Rizwan over Rishabh in their side.
Including Pakistan
Why would they? Don't they have batsmen who love to throw their wickets away already? Why would they need another one who needs luck and favour from opposition fielders to play any decent knock?
Anyone who actually saw him batting today will. Anyone who calls Pant talented not as joke needs some serious evaluation of their cricketing IQ.
This I completely agree with. One of the ugliest looking batsmen ever, so many ugly hoicks in his innings.
Pant's average has dropped in this England tour. It was around 44 before WTC final and now it is 40.27.
Not sure what were you thinking when you made this comparison with Babar lol.
Pant's average has dropped in this England tour. It was around 44 before WTC final and now it is 40.27.
Some of these fans have already given up on 21 year old Prithvi Shaw though.
If Shaw can keep gloves, I would have him in my team because I think he is better than his 17 average stats in SENA conditions.
However, as specialist batsman, 17 average in SENA conditions is simply not good enough for me. Pant averages twice more than that in the same conditions and also keeps wicket. If we take off the green tinted glass, it is pretty clear that hypocrisy is at the other end of spectrum.
It is pretty clear who is a hypocrite here. A 21 year old who has only played a grand total of 5 tests and only 3 away from home has been already discarded by fans like you who worship 24 year old Pant. Have you even checked his stats in NZ?
I am pretty sure you used to wear those green tinted glasses when you were a South African supporter.
It is still higher than any other Asian wicket keeper batsman with 1000+ test runs and most of those matches were in tough overseas conditions. Furthermore, he also has a legendary match winning performance in one of India's greatest test win overseas.
The dropped catch stuff was in Sydney. Gabba was extremely high quality knock which was agreed as ATG knock by you only.
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Pant has a habit of throwing his wicket away. He was on 16 in the Gabba test when he went for a glory shot to keep fans like you happy but Tim Paine missed the stumping and lost the match and series for Australia. Only those who are not wearing saffron tinted glasses can observe this habit of Pant.
Can I expect an intelligent reply from you this time?
That was not a missed opportunity. It was a tough one from even a world class keeper standard too. These are small bits and parts of the match and it doesn't demean the greatness of the knock.
As I said earlier, you can roll the dice whatever way you want but that knock will go down as one of India's greatest test match inning of all-time, probably only second to VVS-Dravid Eden Gardens moment in last many many years of test cricket.
If we sit down and visualise the four greatest moments of Indian cricket team in last 40 years, they will be :-
Kapil Dev, 1983 World Cup
VVS-Dravid, 2001 Kolkata Test
Dhoni-Tendulkar, 2011 World Cup
Pant-Shastri, 2021 Gabba win
Please read my posts again, I called Kamran Akmal mediocre. But facts are facts and Akmal did play an inngs vastly superior to any by Pant and was one of the greatest test inngs of all time (The point was brought up because an Indian poster said Pant has played better knocks then any Pakistani/Indian keeper ever). He was just in a purple patch and scored 7-8 international centuries that year. It has been ranked by both Wisden and Cricinfo as one of the greatest inngs of all time not his 'fans'.
I am sorry if your personal opinion about Akmal doesn't let you see facts. It's not a poorly written article you just have poor reading comprehension. Let me simplify for you:
It seems it went over your head once again. I clearly mentioned he has a habit of throwing his wicket away. He tried in the Gabba test too. Watch that clip again and see the shot he played and compare it with the ongoing series or last couple of tests/LOIs. You will notice the pattern.
He played an extremely magical knock that day. It was one of the greatest humiliations of all-time for Australian captain Tim Paine and perhaps you as well
As I have said, as long as he is averaging 40+ as a test batsman, he is the best wicket keeper batsman in the world because aside of test hundreds in Australia and England, he also had a magnificent series in Australia 2020.
Once that average dips below 40, I would put Quinton de Kock higher than him because he has been around for quite a decent period now. Rizwan is distant third.
Why stop at Shaw? Pant is even better than Sachin, Dravid and Gavaskar.
I won't say that he doesn't care. It's just that he doesn't know when to play an attacking game and when to calm down. He is failing to understand the match situation. He did it well in Australian series but it seems he has forgotten all that hardwork.
