KL Rahul vs Pant (only keeping skills)

[Vijy]

21 hours ago, cricketpitch said:

KL is twice the keeper Pant is at the moment. Pant needs to improve a lot if he wants to play in the LOIs ahead of Rahul as the keeper. He needs to work very hard and prove to the TM he deserves to be in the X1 as a keeper as well as a batsman. Rahul is ahead on both counts at the moment and Virat isn't going to change that combination at least in T20Is very soon.

 

KL also is not reinventing a wheel. There have been players who have done this in white ball formats. QDK does it for SA, Gilly did it for Australia and Kalu did it for Sri Lanka, Keeping the wickets and then opening the batting. As long as KL is happy doing that he will be the first choice keeper for the LO formats, unless he loses his batting form badly. Also since this additional ability gives KL more insurance in the playing X1, it is hard to see him giving up that role that easily.

 

We don't need KL opening in ODIs anyways as Shaw, Gill, Rohit, Dhawan et all are available to do that.

we also need good players at 4-6. by developing his game in middle order, KL could make himself indispensable.