What could be the reason that Rishabh Pant is being given so many chances in the Indian cricket team? Why is Rishabh Pant selected in Indian cricket team(ODI & T20).
I started following cricket in the early nineties after Sachin Tendulkar made his debut. Sachin used to play exciting cricket and was absolutely like a breath of fresh air. Since the early nineties till today, the fag end of 2019, I have followed Indian cricket. I don't remember anyone being given as many chances in the playing eleven of Indian cricket team as Rishabh Pant has got.
The intent is not to ridicule a cricketer or put a question mark on someone's ability and talent.
But having followed Indian cricket religiously, I can't stop myself from feeling sorry for Sanju Samson, the other wicket keeper who was selected in the team apart from Rishabh and did not get a look in. Neither in the previous series nor in the 3 T20's that India has played against the West Indies at home in December 2019 was Sanju given a game.
Indian team's think tank appears to be hell bent on making Rishabh succeed. While it's good to see that a player is being given an extended run and the confidence that the team management believes in him, those newcomers who were/are not given so many chances might start wondering what should they do to enjoy the same kind of extended run despite limited success.
If you talk about Rishabh Pant, it's not that he was not given chances to bat up the order. He got surplus opportunities. Many times, apart from the chance to bat with a lot of overs to be bowled, the team needed Rishabh to play a responsible knock and take the team from a precarious position to a safe or winning position. But he floundered the opportunity by playing reckless shots or the glory shots.
In cricketing vocabulary glory shots are the shots which get you the limelight and glory - the big sixes. These glory shots bring you a lot of cheers and instant applause from the crowd. The match situation required Rishabh to put his head down & play a long innings, by cutting down the risk element & not go for the glamorous shots.
The pertinent point here is I have seen multiple cricketers dropped from the squad after playing stupid shots which have cost the team the match as a punishment or penalty. Not just Indian cricket team, world cricket is full of such examples. A player was given a game for debut & he was dropped & totally forgotten by the selectors after 1 game.
Either Rishabh is blessed, exceptionally blessed it seems. Or, on a funny note, Rishabh must be having some secret photographs/videos of the people who decide the squad and the team composition, with him.
Because neither has he shown exceptional wicket keeping skills, nor exceptional batting skills. On any given day Rishabh's average wicket keeping skills can be equalled if not bettered by K. L. Rahul's or Sanju Samson or Karthik or Wriddhiman Saha or Ishan Kishan's wicket keeping skills. We will not bring M.S Dhoni in this conversation of wicket-keeping abilities.
Rishabh's batting skills are good, not extraordinarily spectacular. If a batsman scores quickly, likes to stick around and play a long innings, and he values his wicket then he is considered a dependable asset to the team. If these many chances, with the assurance that he will not be dropped in this entire series which the captain Virat Kohli & team coach Ravi Shastri have given statements in the media, would have been given to Ishan Kishan or Surya Kumar Yadav or any of the above mentioned cricketers, they would have done as well as Rishabh if not better than him, is my belief.
Fate, destiny smiles on some while the others are totally shunned.
I started following cricket in the early nineties after Sachin Tendulkar made his debut. Sachin used to play exciting cricket and was absolutely like a breath of fresh air. Since the early nineties till today, the fag end of 2019, I have followed Indian cricket. I don't remember anyone being given as many chances in the playing eleven of Indian cricket team as Rishabh Pant has got.
The intent is not to ridicule a cricketer or put a question mark on someone's ability and talent.
But having followed Indian cricket religiously, I can't stop myself from feeling sorry for Sanju Samson, the other wicket keeper who was selected in the team apart from Rishabh and did not get a look in. Neither in the previous series nor in the 3 T20's that India has played against the West Indies at home in December 2019 was Sanju given a game.
Indian team's think tank appears to be hell bent on making Rishabh succeed. While it's good to see that a player is being given an extended run and the confidence that the team management believes in him, those newcomers who were/are not given so many chances might start wondering what should they do to enjoy the same kind of extended run despite limited success.
If you talk about Rishabh Pant, it's not that he was not given chances to bat up the order. He got surplus opportunities. Many times, apart from the chance to bat with a lot of overs to be bowled, the team needed Rishabh to play a responsible knock and take the team from a precarious position to a safe or winning position. But he floundered the opportunity by playing reckless shots or the glory shots.
In cricketing vocabulary glory shots are the shots which get you the limelight and glory - the big sixes. These glory shots bring you a lot of cheers and instant applause from the crowd. The match situation required Rishabh to put his head down & play a long innings, by cutting down the risk element & not go for the glamorous shots.
The pertinent point here is I have seen multiple cricketers dropped from the squad after playing stupid shots which have cost the team the match as a punishment or penalty. Not just Indian cricket team, world cricket is full of such examples. A player was given a game for debut & he was dropped & totally forgotten by the selectors after 1 game.
Either Rishabh is blessed, exceptionally blessed it seems. Or, on a funny note, Rishabh must be having some secret photographs/videos of the people who decide the squad and the team composition, with him.
Because neither has he shown exceptional wicket keeping skills, nor exceptional batting skills. On any given day Rishabh's average wicket keeping skills can be equalled if not bettered by K. L. Rahul's or Sanju Samson or Karthik or Wriddhiman Saha or Ishan Kishan's wicket keeping skills. We will not bring M.S Dhoni in this conversation of wicket-keeping abilities.
Rishabh's batting skills are good, not extraordinarily spectacular. If a batsman scores quickly, likes to stick around and play a long innings, and he values his wicket then he is considered a dependable asset to the team. If these many chances, with the assurance that he will not be dropped in this entire series which the captain Virat Kohli & team coach Ravi Shastri have given statements in the media, would have been given to Ishan Kishan or Surya Kumar Yadav or any of the above mentioned cricketers, they would have done as well as Rishabh if not better than him, is my belief.
Fate, destiny smiles on some while the others are totally shunned.
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