Former Indian wicket-keeper Deep Dasgupta heaped praise for explosive wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant and said that the way Rishabh Pant is batting that confidence is rubbing onto his keeping as well.
Rishabh Pant was a revelation with the bat in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar trophy and set the stage of fire on with his carefree knock of 91 runs in the first Test match between India and England and then followed it up with another fifty in the first innings of the ongoing second Test match.
The wicket-keeper batsman, however, has always found himself in the firing line for his wicket-keeping skills and there are lots of talks about whether he should be donning the gloves for Team India, particularly with someone like Wriddhiman Saha on the bench.
But on Sunday, Pant grabbed two stunners and silenced all his criticism that he has been facing for his work behind the gloves.
Reflecting on Rishabh Pant’s wicket-keeping, former Indian wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta said that the confidence with which Pant seems to be batting is also rubbing onto his wicket-keeping.
“I think the way he is batting, that confidence is rubbing onto his keeping as well. Because it is, and we have all heard this before, and we have said it as well, that it is a confidence game. So once you start feeling confident about yourself, about your skills obviously you look like a different player,” Deep Dasgupta told Sports today.
IND v ENG 2021: Give Rishabh Pant a “break” from constant comparisons, says R Ashwin
Dasgupta pointed that Pant kept well even in the first Test matches and said that the latter looked relaxed and did not look worried.
“If you look at someone like Rishabh, even in the last Test match as well, he kept really well in the second innings, the way he was moving around he looked relaxed and did not look worried, so he is not making those unnecessary movements, and because of that he has more balance in his approach and his stance,” he said.
Deep Dasgupta commended Pant for the two phenomenal one-handed catches he caught on the leg side. He also heaped praise for how he kept against Kuldeep Yadav.
“Those two catches were absolutely phenomenal, and not just that, those catches were, of course, brilliant, but generally also the way he kept for those deliveries that were down the legside from Kuldeep, he was really good at that. So, all in all, he is looking really good,” he concluded.
(Sports Today inputs)
