‘No need for him to play…’: Ex-India star BLASTS Rishabh Pant after poor performance against RR

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) secured a thrilling 2-run victory over the Rajasthan Royals (RR) on Saturday. Batting first, the Lucknow-based franchise posted a decent total of 180/5 on the board thanks to fifties from both Aiden Markram and Ayush Badoni.

In reply, RR’s batting order put up a great fight, but eventually were restricted to 178/5 after the end of their 20 overs. Yashasvi Jaiswal was the top-scorer for the Rajasthan-based franchise with his valiant knock of 78, however it didn’t prove to be enough in the end.

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Despite being on the winning side, skipper Rishabh Pant continued to disappoint with his batting performance. The left-hand batter was only able to score 3 runs from 9 deliveries before getting dismissed.

Pant was dismissed by Wanindu Hasaranga after he his attempt of playing a reverse sweep miserably failed. Seeing this, former India cricketer Manoj Tiwary slammed the wicketkeeper-batter for his poor shot selection.

“Rishabh Pant is that kind of player – he is brimming with talent. There is no need for him to go and play a reverse sweep right away, yet he does it. That’s why Sunil Gavaskar got upset during the Test match in the Border-Gavaskar series,” Tiwary said on Cricbuzz.

Even he knows that Pant has so much ability that he can score runs with straight-bat cricket. So why doesn’t he do that? Why does he go for the unconventional?” Tiwary added.