Rishabh Pant’s White-Ball Game Still a Work in Progress, Says Bangar

Sanjay Bangar has said that Rishabh Pant is a great test cricket batter, but is confused when it comes to the white ball format.

Rishabh Pant was the most expensive player during the mega-auction in 2024. However, the captain of Lucknow Super Giants failed to prove his worth this season. He could score only 128 runs in 11 games.

Bangar Comments on Pant’s White Ball Game

Former Indian cricketer Sanjay Bangar feels that Pant is still confused about batting in white-ball cricket. He said that Pant is a different player in test cricket, but is yet to find his best game when it comes to white-ball games.

“We have to recognise that he’s still yet to totally understand the white-ball game – both formats, 50-over cricket as well as T20 cricket. A fabulous Test match batter, make no mistake about it, but here in this particular season, what I noticed is that he got out a number of times looking to play shots behind the wicket,” Bangar said on Star Sports.

Now, you pull out the best innings of Rishabh – where has he looked to score the runs? Drives through covers, step down the track and try to hit the sightscreen or go over midwicket, square. But here he was trying to play those reverse sweeps or shots that are very fine.

So as a batter, I think probably he just got caught in that confusion and forgot that his best game, or that he plays at his best, is when he’s looking to score down the ground,” Bangar added.

“If you do look to score down the ground a lot of times, then all those other areas open up. But if you’re only looking to score behind, then whatever is in front of you, you sort of are very much late and not in a great position to play,” he added.

Pant will now look to return in form for the five-test series against England starting from June 20.

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