Thursday, 10 January 2019

Rishabh Pant has technical issues in keeping wickets: Farokh Engineer

Pant had also scored a blazing hundred, the first by an Indian wicket keeper in Australia
India's Rishabh Pant, left, celebrates making 100 runs as Australia's Marnus Labuschagne watches on day 2 during their cricket test match in Sydney. Photo: AP/PTI
Sports News: Rishabh Pant might have created a new record for an Indian wicket keeper by taking 11 catches in a Test in Australia, but former stumper Farokh Engineer says the Delhi youngster has a lot of technical problems in his primary job, while praising the left hander’s batting heroics.
Engineer said Pant reminds him of his young days.
“His approach is same as M S Dhoni’s. But don’t praise him sky-high at the moment. Encourage him. (But) He’s technically so incorrect,” said the one-time flamboyant wicket keeper batsman at Legends Club’s talk show at the Cricket Club of India here Wednesday evening.
Pant had also scored a blazing hundred, the first by an Indian wicket keeper in Australia, in the drawn final Test at Sydney to top his record number of catches behind the stumps in the first match of the series at Adelaide.
Pant’s flamboyant batting exploits, however, have impressed Engineer so much that he wondered how the Indian selectors can afford to leave him out in favour of the seasoned Dhoni for this year’s World Cup in England.
“Question is, for the World Cup will you pick Dhoni? How can you drop Pant? He’s done so well. These are the questions for the selectors the three selectors who between them must have played one and a half Tests,” he said, before he was corrected that there was a five-man selection panel now with two more additions to the list.

Source By: Business Standard or BS

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