Virender Sehwag offers interesting batting advice for Rishabh Pant in white-ball cricket

Rishabh Pant is currently captaining Delhi Capitals (DC) in the IPL 2022.

By Rashmi Nanda - 20 May, 2022

Virender Sehwag has given some really surprising advice to the Indian team management over Rishabh Pant's batting position in white-ball cricket.

We all know that the young wicketkeeper-batter has improved a lot with the gloves and he is already a natural attacking batter, which makes him a first-choice keeper for India across the formats.

Well, Sehwag believes that Pant can be a bigger asset for Team India in limited-overs cricket if he opens the batting for the team. He feels the left-hander as an opener would be far more successful. Notably, Pant has so far scored 715 runs in 24 ODIs and 683 runs in 43 T20Is for India.

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Sehwag said on Sports18's show Home of Heroes: “We don't play limited-overs to score 50 or 100 but to score at a brisk pace, no matter the situation or the opposition.”

The former aggressive opener added, “At no. 4 or 5, he will find himself in situations that demand greater responsibility, but if he opens, he will be far more successful.”

Notably, Sehwag himself started his journey as a middle-order batter, but once he was promoted to open the innings, he was just unstoppable. A similar thing happened with Sachin Tendulkar. 

By Rashmi Nanda - 20 May, 2022

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