India’s wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant left a lasting impression on batting legend Sunil Gavaskar with his captaincy in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021.

Pant led Delhi Capitals (DC) in the now-suspended IPL 14 after regular skipper Shreyas Iyer got ruled out of the tournament due to a shoulder injury.

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Under Pant’s leadership, DC finish on top of the IPL 2021 points table before the cash-rich event was postponed due to COVID-19 cases in bio-bubbles of multiple franchises.

"The standout team Delhi Capitals under young Rishabh Pant. By the sixth game, one could see that he was getting tired of being asked about being captain. Every presenter at the post-game ceremony had the same question to him," Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

"What he showed was a spark that can become a roaring fire if allowed to burn naturally. Yes, he will make mistakes; which captain doesn’t?

“But like he showed in the few games in the IPL that he is clever enough to learn and his usual street-smart savvy meant he was on top of most situations and was finding his own method to get out of sticky ones.

"He is one for the future, no doubt about it. That’s because he has shown that talent can meet opportunity only when it walks hand in hand with temperament,” he added.

Delhi Capitals played 8 games in the IPL 2021, registering 6 wins and suffering 2 losses.

Rishabh Pant will now be seen in action during the upcoming England tour. Team Indian will play the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand in Southampton from June 18-22 followed by a five-match Test series versus England in Nottingham, London, Leeds and Manchester between August 4 and September 14.