Cricketer-turned-commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has heaped praise on Rishabh Pant, saying the wicketkeeper-batsman is Virender Sehwag of the current generation.Manjrekar said that just like Sehwag, Pant should be treated differently and allowed to play the game in his own way.\u201cPenny dropped for me last night. Rishabh is this generation\u2019s Viru. A batsman who needs to be treated differently which is to just let him be. On Wednesday, Pant played a
brisk 49-run knock which came off just 21 balls as Delhi Capitals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Eliminator of the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to win their first knockout match in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 21-year-old\n batsman has been in great form in the ongoing IPL, scoring 450 runs in \nthe 15 matches he has played so far. His runs have come at a blistering \nstrike rate of 163.63.Pant, who is considered MS Dhoni\u2019s successor by \nmany, was not included in the India squad for the upcoming World Cup. In\n his place, Dinesh Karthik has been chosen as the second wicket-keeper \nfor the showpiece event because of his superior \u201cwicket-keeping skills\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\n all that either Rishabh Pant or Dinesh Karthik will come in only when \n(Dhoni) is injured. In an important game, wicketkeeping is also \nimportant. That\u2019s the reason we went with Dinesh Karthik. That is the \nonly reason why we went ahead with DK, otherwise Pant was almost there. \nPant is full of talent, he has time on his hands. Unfortunately he \nmissed out,\u201d BCCI chairman of selectors MSK Prasad had said while \nclarifying their decision of not including Pant in the World Cup squad.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cricketer-turned-commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has heaped praise on Rishabh Pant, saying the wicketkeeper-batsman is Virender Sehwag of the current generation.Manjrekar said that just like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60949,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60947\/revisions\/60949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}