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I’m the hero and I’m the villain, I’m the one who makes the team up and down
Rishabh Pant is the main topic of discussion on social media. In the limited over format, India’s mainstay in the Test format is the same ball that weighs down the team without being able to score runs and find form.
Rishabh Panth shines in Tests by being applauded by those who called him a failure in the wet ball format and those who criticized him saying that he can’t do anything.
As Pakistan superstar Danish Kaneria said the other day, Test cricket is a game of balls. A departure from his recent performances is Rishabh Pant in Tests.
This will be clear if we check the ICC test ranking. Rishabh Pant is the only Indian in the top five Test batsmen list. Indian captain Rohit Sharma is at the 10th position and Virat Kohli, the powerhouse of the Fab Four, is at the 12th position.
The fifth ranked ball has 801 rating points. Rohit Sharma has 746 and Virat has 714 Test points.
Rishabh Pant’s dominance in the Test format did not start today or yesterday. Starting from domestic cricket, Pant played a crucial role in many of India’s major Test victories.
Rishabh Pant was the backbone of the Indian team to conquer the Gabba. Without the innings of the ball that day, India would have lost that Test without a doubt.
So far Rishabh Pant has scored 2196 runs from 54 innings in 32 international Test matches. The star’s run achievement is ten fifties and five centuries. The ball averages 43.48 in Tests.
The ball that continues to fail in the white ball format changes when the format changes. The last match of the India-Bangladesh series can be taken as an example.
Before this Rishabh Pant played in white ball format. It was India’s T20 World Cup. It is clear as day that Ball’s performance in the World Cup was a colossal failure. After that, Rishabh Pant made it clear once again that he failed not only in T20 but also in ODIs during India’s tour of New Zealand.
The player was then ruled out of the ongoing ODI series of India’s tour of Bangladesh. Just before the first match of the series, the BCCI confirmed that the ball was injured and removed the player from the squad.
However, Rishabh Pant made his class clear in the very first match of the Test series of this tour. Ball got out after scoring 46 runs from 45 balls. A smashing innings from Psycho Ball, who plays Tests in T20s and ODIs but also in the ODI format when it comes to Tests.
Rishabh Pant is actually the hero. We can proudly say that Rishabh Pant is one of the three best Test players in the Indian team today.
But even when he is a hero in Tests, he is still zero in ODIs and T20Is. This is not to forget Ball’s match-winning performance against England. The shorter format is not good for the ball.
Like Cheteshwar Pujara, Pant should be developed as the team’s Test specialist. Similarly, talented players waiting for an opportunity instead of the ball in the white ball format should be considered.
No matter how well Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan perform in both ODIs and T20Is, the ball is always the obstacle for them. Once that situation changes, we can see amazing changes in Indian cricket.
Let Pant play Tests and make India famous in Tests, he has the talent. The youngster has the potential to become perhaps the best red ball cricketer in the world in the future.
There is one thing that all of Pant’s critics and haters openly agree on, he is India’s best Test cricketer. Fans hate the ball only in the white ball format.
If only BCCI understands this, the number of Rishabh Pant’s haters in India will decrease by more than 90 percent. The only request to the cricket board and selectors is not to make hatred of the ball the X factor and the Y factor.
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