Rishabh Pant Crammed Void Left Through MS Dhoni: ‘Taken To Take a look at Cricket Like A Duck To Water’ – News18
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India legend Rahul Dravid has lavished prime reward on Rishabh Pant for his performances in Take a look at cricket.
MS Dhoni (left) and Rishabh Pant proportion a mild second all through an IPL tournament. (BCCI Picture)
Rishabh Pant has taken to Take a look at cricket like “a duck to water” reckons batting legend Rahul Dravid mentioning his unbelievable performances all through India’s 2020-21 excursion of Australia the place he starred in workforce’s ancient triumph at The Gabba. And Dravid feels that Pant has completed sufficient to no less than fill the void left by means of the mythical wicketkeeper-batter MS Dhoni within the longest layout.
Dravid despite the fact that provides that he doesn’t imply that Pant has “changed” Dhoni who first stormed into the limelight as a big-hitting batter earlier than proving his astute management and wicketkeeping talents as smartly.
Pant was once key to India securing a 2nd instantly 2-1 Take a look at sequence win in Australia, scoring 89 runs within the fourth and ultimate tournament of the excursion. He scored 274 runs at a mean of 68.50 enjoying a vital function in depleted India returning house with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
“It’s laborious to consider that, after Dhoni left, you felt there may well be a while for somebody to return in and exchange him,” Dravid advised Superstar Sports activities. “I’m no longer pronouncing he’s (Pant) changed him, however unquestionably in Take a look at cricket, his performances were completely sensational, an improbable efficiency.”
Dravid termed Pant’s match-winning knock of 89 runs within the a hit chase of 329 as “sensational” as India gained by means of 3 wickets.
“Gazing Rishabh there and chasing to get 89 to win that Take a look at tournament on the Gabba, with the entirety at the line and this type of depleted aspect, to position in that more or less efficiency underneath that more or less force — in point of fact sensational… What a different cricketer he’s been. He’s simply taken to Take a look at cricket like a duck to water. It’s simply extraordinary,” he mentioned.
Pant made his aggressive go back previous this yr after spending over a yr at the sidelines as he recovered from the wounds of a automotive coincidence in December 2022. He was once a part of India’s T20 Global Cup triumph previous this yr.
