‘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.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.The post ‘No need for him to play..

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