former Australia Ian Healy, the national cricket team's wicketkeeper-batsman, has named the Indian national cricket team's star wicketkeeper-batsman. Rishabh Pant Cricketer “Work in Progress”.
Ian Healy opined that wicket-keeping for Rishabh Pant is a work in progress, and he will have to make a lot of improvements to get better at it.
Rishabh Pant has 19 dismissals to his name in BGT 2024-25
The Indian national cricket team's star keeper-batsman was not at his best behind the stumps in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 tournament.
Pant dropped quite a few catches and looked sloppy while doing wicket-keeping. However, even though he is not at his best, Pant has 19 dismissals to his name.
In three matches in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane, Rishabh Pant has taken 19 runs behind the stumps, with his best performance being 5 catches in the innings. His expulsion percentage per round is 3.166.
Pant's numbers are better than those of the wicket-keeper and batsman of the Australian national cricket team Alex Careywho has 15 disposals to his name with 13 catches, 2 stumps and a disposal per Rstio 2.5 round.
Rishabh Pant is a work in progress, but I saw him in the morning and I love the drills he does – Ian Healy
Meanwhile, Ian Healy said that Pant must improve his ball-keeping skills and pointed out that the Indian star sometimes makes wrong initial movements, which leads to dropping the ball.
“Rishabh Pant is a work in progress, but I saw him in the morning and I like the drills he is doing; he is bound to improve further. Sometimes, like he did when he dropped a catch in this series Earlier, he could make an initial wrong move.
“Some goalkeepers like to move the touch to their left first and then press from there. It's better to stay still, and if you can't, you have to start that movement with an early touch so that by the time the ball is out, it's better,” Healy told The Indian Express. You can still click on the right side. One of these two decisions must be made.”
Rishabh Pant has struggled with the bat in BGT 2024-25
Pant was also poor with the bat in the five-match Test series against the Australia national cricket team. Expectations were very high from Rishabh Pant when India landed in Australia considering his past heroics in the country.
Pant got off to a good start and played his natural aggressive game. However, he failed to turn those starts into big results.
The 27-year-old scored scores of 37, 1, 21, 28 and 9 in the five innings he batted. Overall, he scored just 96 runs at an average of 19.20 and a strike rate of 60.00. His poor returns with the bat was one of the main reasons why India struggled in the batting department.
