Previous India skipper Sourav Ganguly on Monday by and by regretted that youthful wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant would be distressfully missed amid the ODI World Cup, beginning on May 30 in United Kingdom.
“India will miss Pant in the World Cup. I don’t know in whose place yet he will be remembered fondly,” Ganguly told columnists at Eden Gardens.
The hazardous 21-year-old Pant was a striking exclusion from the India’s World Cup-bound squad as the national selectors picked an accomplished Dinesh Karthik as the second decision wicketkeeper.
Gasp had a terrific season accumulating 488 keeps running from 16 matches at a normal of 37.53 and with a strike rate of 162.66.
With Kedar Jadhav continuing shoulder damage amid an IPL coordinate between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab, the restorative staff is picking a pause and watch arrangement on his accessibility for India’s World Cup opener against South Africa on June 5.
Asked whether Pant’s name can manifest in the event that Jadhav neglects to get fit, Ganguly stated: “He is harmed. It’s hard to state whether he will get fit or not. I trust Kedar gets fit.”
Ganguly is the counsel of IPL establishment Delhi Capitals, a group for which Pant as of late scored gigantic runs in spite of the fact that it neglected to make the last.
“We played especially well however two different groups made the last. The season just got over, we have not contemplated it (the path forward),” Ganguly said about their misfortune to Chennai Super Kings in the Qualifier 2.
Ganguly appraised CSK’s MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma as two best skippers of the IPL.
“Two best chiefs of the IPL and one of them won. Everybody will learn under strain. Both CSK and Mumbai were phenomenal groups,” said Ganguly.