Ravichandran Ashwin said that Rishabh Pant is considered an attacking batsman, but he also has a great defence to become an immensely successful batsman in Test cricket.
Pant had the biggest workload in the Test series opener against the England National Cricket Team at Headingley in Leeds as he hit twin tons and had to keep wickets for over 180 overs.
Pant was at his unorthodox best in the match and scored 134 runs off 178 balls in the first innings, including 12 fours and 6 sixes, before blasting 118 runs off 140 balls, with 15 fours and 3 sixes, in the second innings.
Pant's performance helped him make massive gains in the ICC Test Batting Rankings, and he moved to the seventh spot, with 801 rating points, which is the most achieved by an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman in Test history. However, he couldn't save India from facing a defeat.
There is not even one shot in the book that he cannot play - Ravichandran Ashwin
“Rishabh Pant scored twin hundreds; he joins an elite list of batters. Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli are all in the list, and Rishabh Pant has now joined them. Rishabh Pant now has the highest number of centuries as an Indian wicketkeeper-batter,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel ‘Ash Ki Baat’.
I request you to make a double hundred next time - Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin further urged head coach Gautam Gambhir to request Pant to look for a double hundred whenever he is in the middle the next time, keeping in mind the lower-order struggles of India.
Notably, India suffered two shocking collapses in the Leeds Test and couldn't score the desired runs. The Shubman Gill & Co. went from 430/3 to 471 all out in the first innings, and in the second innings, India went from 333/4 to 364.
According to the legendary spinner, Pant is a superior batter to MS Dhoni because he is a batter-keeper, and the latter was a keeper-batter, who never batted in the Top 5.
“Comparing MS Dhoni and Rishabh Pant is not fair. MS Dhoni never batted at No.5. MS Dhoni was a keeper-batter, and I would say Pant is a batter-keeper. There are a lot of differences in that. Rishabh Pant should be compared with the likes of Virat Kohli. He is a main batter. The time and skill Pant has, when he is batting, look at the time he has against the pacers,” he added.
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