VVS Laxman: "I think if Pant is not improving, definitely you have to go to other options. There are other options available. Someone like Ishan Kishan, someone like a Sanju Samson. Why not try them?"

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

VVS Laxman spoke about Rishabh Pant's place in the Indian team after his innings of 19 from 20 balls in the 3rd T20I against South Africa in Bengaluru.

 

"I think if he is not improving, definitely you have to go to other options", Laxman said on Nerolac Cricket Live. "There are other options available. Why not try them and then you can always come back to Rishabh Pant. But it's important to give him a break, I feel, and then you can go to someone else who is doing well for India 'A', who has done well in domestic cricket. Someone like Ishan Kishan, someone like a Sanju Samson."

Edited September 22, 2019 by TNAmarkFromIndia

[Ankit_sharma03]

VVS has backed dhawan in t20 since ages despite having a very avg record....so much impatience with pant who has scored 2 t20s 50 which is what dhoni did in his entire career

[nevada]

Et tu VVS? Everyone is acting as if Pant is public enemy #1. No need to make a national topic out of him, he is just another player. Let him fly under the radar for a little bit to give him a chance to find his bearings.

[putrevus]

VVS you need to shut up, why is everyone picking on one guy Pant.These morons need to look at their records.VVS was an atrocious odi player who could not run in between the wickets.

[Norman]

I'm just glad that he said Samson and Kishan instead of saying Dhoni's experience should be used. 

[nevada]

35 minutes ago, putrevus said:

VVS you need to shut up, why is everyone picking on one guy Pant.These morons need to look at their records.VVS was an atrocious odi player who could not run in between the wickets.

Took 3 years to score his first test century. Played his epic 281 almost 5 years after debut. If current selection standards were followed, he would have been confined to the scrap heap written as a domestic bully.

Edited September 22, 2019 by nevada

[putrevus]

TM even after those statements have backed Pant and they have played him at no4. I think they are doing their part.Pant needs to relax and shut this noise out.

 

He will play test cricket after this and he will be fine.

[Cricwala]

Pant should say screw this, pack his bags and play t20 leagues across the world....No one needs such crap when they are 21 and just started with your career. Most ex-indian players suffer from verbal diarrhea when a mike is thrust at them....And media is the epitome of yellow journalism and a freak show circus as it is

[Moochad]

I don't think we have that many games to try out so many different options. The WK options should be Pant vs Dhoni vs Rahul considering how little time is left b/f WT20

[ShoonyaSifar]

Like the selectors in 2001 should have gone to someone new and not a tried and tested failure then averaging 28 after 20 tests.

 

Amazing how even players who suffered at the hands of selectors can spout so much nonsense.

 

[Suhaan]

Job is done, damage has been done

I don't think Pant will survive this onslaught via gutter mouths

 

[rtmohanlal]

From the look of the matters Pant's strongest  format is tests. In odis, the best place for him is as an opener ..... to score those 25 ball 30-40 cameos when field restrictions are on.Try him there or only play him in tests.

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 hour ago, nevada said:

Took 3 years to score his first test century. Played his epic 281 almost 5 years after debut. If current selection standards were followed, he would have been confined to the scrap heap written as a domestic bully.

He had a bad series in zimb after 281 against aus at home.....going by current selection standard he wud have been dropped even after that like nair was after making a triple hundred 

[Sgattick10]

This guy speaks from his arse.. Is a Dhoni bhakt and Bcci sevak. 

[Suhaan]

3 minutes ago, Sgattick10 said:

This guy speaks from his arse.. Is a Dhoni bhakt and Bcci sevak. 

He was humiliated by Dhoni ,he announced his retirement just before Hyderabad test against NZ(yes it was this venue where Dhoni didn't care to give him farewell)  back in 2012 ,he was continuously calling Dhoni,but Dhoni didn't bother to pick his phone 

He himself admitted that in open,now shamelessly following the recent trend of bootlicking 

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

58 minutes ago, Moochad said:

I don't think we have that many games to try out so many different options. The WK options should be Pant vs Dhoni vs Rahul considering how little time is left b/f WT20

14 T20Is left before World T20. Still enough games to give someone else a try.

[Invasion 550]

Man, everyones after Pant it seems like. Like hes enemy number 1 of Indian cricket or smth LOL

[ShoonyaSifar]

After his 1st 13 ODIs, VVS had 86 runs@8, has often talked about how unfairly he was dropped from ODIs!

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 hour ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

After his 1st 13 ODIs, VVS had 86 runs@8, has often talked about how unfairly he was dropped from ODIs!

If we start taking most young batsman stats till that point.....it will shut up every pant critic 

 

[kirkutfan]

What happens to players when they become ex-players? VVS thought he deserved patience from selectors, when he played. Yet, he doesn’t want to give Pant the same chance to work things out. What happens to the brain when you move from the field to the commentary box?