Former Indian cricketer Saba Karim feels that young wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will soon become a complete player across formats. Pant has had a great start to his Test career. He averages over 40 after 29 matches. He has also scored four hundreds, with three of them coming in the SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) countries. However, he has had difficulties regarding consistency in the white-ball formats.
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According to Karim, it is only a matter of time before Pant reserves his place in all three formats. He said:
“We are seeing Rishabh Pant grow. He is having a big impact and his value is slowly rising in the team. I feel he still needs to evolve a bit in white-ball cricket. He needs to achieve a lot. But in Test cricket, he is constantly improving and is adding a lot of value to the team. I feel he will soon be a complete player across formats, which will be very good for India.”
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“From an Indian perspective, he has had a massive impact. After MS Dhoni came in, the Indians started feeling that they have found a match-winner. With all due respect, before Dhoni India did not have a wicketkeeper who was a match-winner as well. And he was a match-winner not only in white-ball but red-ball cricket as well. When Gilchrist started succeeding for Australia, India always thought we should also have someone like him and Dhoni proved to be the one.” he said, talking about Dhoni’s contribution.
