Salman Butt Hails Rishabh Pant For Ability To Deliver For India In Pressured Situations

Aug 3, 2022 at 3:38 PM

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Salman Butt Hails Rishabh Pant For Ability To Deliver For India In Pressured Situations

Salman Butt, the former Pakistan skipper has praised Rishabh Pant for his ability to deliver the goods for Team India in high-pressure situations. According to Salman Butt, whenever the Indians have found themselves in tough situations in recent times, the young keeper-batter has bailed them out more often than not.

Rishabh Pant played some terrific knocks on the tour of England. He smashed 146 and 57 in the rescheduled 5th Test in England. The 24-year-old also hammered an unbeaten 125 in the third ODI to lift India to a series win.

Rishabh Pant (BCCI Image)
Rishabh Pant (BCCI Image)

Salman Butt Praises Rishabh Pant For Delivering Consistently Under Pressure

On Tuesday (August 2), he scored a crucial 33* in 26 balls as Team India defeated West Indies by seven wickets in the third T20I in St Kitts. With the victory, the Men in Blue took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

Hailing Rishabh Pant for his consistency under pressure, Salman Butt said on his YouTube channel: “Whenever they (India) need someone to step up and play a sparkling knock under pressure in difficult circumstances, he is there.

“Rishabh Pant almost always plays such a (crucial) knock. He did it during the Test and one-dayer series in England. Even in today’s (Tuesday’s) game, he played a handy knock.”

Suryakumar Yadav Photo by Deepak Malik / Sportzpics for BCCI
Suryakumar Yadav Photo by Deepak Malik / Sportzpics for BCCI

India’s win in the third T20I was set up by Suryakumar Yadav, who scored a terrific 76 in only 44 balls in the team’s chase of 165. The set batter perished in the 15th over, with India’s score reading 135 for two. Hardik Pandya fell for four, but Rishabh Pant struck three fours and a six to do a fine finishing job.

Salman Butt Reckons India Can Afford To Add Another Bowler Because Rishabh Pant Is A Keeper Which Is An Extra Plus

Sharing his views on Rishabh Pant’s consistency with the bat, Salman Butt pointed out that his success is proving beneficial to the team in more ways than one.

The former Pakistani batter elaborated: “Being a wicketkeeper-batter, it (Pant’s success) is an extra plus for India. Because he is doing well, they can add a bowler in the playing XI. Even some proper batters are not able to come up with the kind of performances that Pant has delivered in recent times.”

Salman Butt. Image-Twitter
Salman Butt. Image-Twitterryakumar

The Indian gloveman has 2123 runs to his name in 31 Tests at an average of 43.32. He has also scored 840 runs in 27 ODIs at an average of 36.52 and 839 runs in 53 T20Is at a strike rate of 125.59.

Rishabh Pant was tried as an opener for the last two T20Is against England. He replied with an attacking 24 and a poor 1 off 5. Apart from that unbeaten 113-ball-125 in the 3rd ODI, the southpaw has been very mediocre in limited overs cricket. In his 70-odd innings across ODIs and T20 internationals, Rishabh Pant averages less than 30.

Though he is playing at number 4 during the ongoing tour of the Caribbean, Rishabh Pant more or less faced the new ball during the 2nd T20I and looked like a game-changer for his 12-ball-24 on a pitch where every other Indian batter struggled. He scored 33* in 26 balls in the 3rd T20I to be one of the architects of the Indian win.

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