Pant looks awful for T20

[ravishingravi]

Must be cognitive biases for sure. I surely can't understand his worth in T20. As I watched the highlights I couldn't help but as if this serious team. 

 

Pant should have been out 5 times. Taking insane chances and looking ugly at most times. In fact, for all risks he just scored 42 off 31. Against better team he could get exposed. 

[vvvslaxman]

Pre-meditation is one reason. If he reacts to ball, ball just finds the fielder. So he tries to invent strokes and gets into awkward positions. This is why he has not cracked the T20 code yet.

[cricketfan28]

Looks like he is given a role to just go and hit, the rest may be to anchor and they failed. 

[Sgattick10]

Still a clutch player in all formats 

[Ultimate_Game]

IMO if they don't want to play Jaiswal, they should promote Pant to open and let him go for it in PPs. Push Kohli down to 3 - his natural spot. Ideally, I would prefer Jaiswal to open.

[Gollum]

I didn't like how he lost his wicket, should have looked to bat all 20 overs because other end was useless.

 

But great day for him. Flukey knock sure but hella effective, and what keeping yaar. 

[lemsip]

Weird picking on the only batsman who scored any runs at all yesterday from either side !

[lemsip]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Pre-meditation is one reason. If he reacts to ball, ball just finds the fielder. So he tries to invent strokes and gets into awkward positions. This is why he has not cracked the T20 code yet.

You have to take the conditions into account. We saw enough batsmen with classical techniques fail miserably yesterday. Under very tough conditions, his unconventional approach saved the day for India otherwise they would have folded for 60-70 under overcast skies and on that pitch.

[Gollum]

Don't really care how people look as long as they get the job done. Smith at the peak of his powers looked ugly af and a prime candidate for LBW with his weirdass shuffle, but he had his methods to be effective. 

[bowl_out]

1 hour ago, Ultimate_Game said:

IMO if they don't want to play Jaiswal, they should promote Pant to open and let him go for it in PPs. Push Kohli down to 3 - his natural spot. Ideally, I would prefer Jaiswal to open.

The only reason Jaiswal isn't opening is because Kohli wants to open

[Kothili]

Third rate scumbags here will blame Dravid for this too. 

[vvvslaxman]

34 minutes ago, lemsip said:

You have to take the conditions into account. We saw enough batsmen with classical techniques fail miserably yesterday. Under very tough conditions, his unconventional approach saved the day for India otherwise they would have folded for 60-70 under overcast skies and on that pitch.

 

Not specifically talking about y day match. But in general he bats like this when simple stand and deliver stuff will do.

[dilliboy]

He identified the best way to score runs on that pitch..strike rate of 140 when other players struggled to play run a ball.

 

If not for him, India weren't crossing 100

[vvvslaxman]

8 minutes ago, dilliboy said:

He identified the best way to score runs on that pitch..strike rate of 140 when other players struggled to play run a ball.

 

If not for him, India weren't crossing 100

True. With a bit more selectiveness it would have been a perfect innings for this pitch. Miller did well as well last match. 

[Ultimate_Game]

35 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

The only reason Jaiswal isn't opening is because Kohli wants to open

 

And that's why the decision should be taken from his hands. Hope better sense prevails and we use Jaiswal as opener and Kohli at 3. 

[bowl_out]

5 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

And that's why the decision should be taken from his hands. Hope better sense prevails and we use Jaiswal as opener and Kohli at 3. 

If at all Jaiswal opens and Kohli plays at 3, it will lead to Dube being dropped. 

Pant will play in 3-5, and won't be considered as an opener

[Ultimate_Game]

35 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

If at all Jaiswal opens and Kohli plays at 3, it will lead to Dube being dropped. 

Pant will play in 3-5, and won't be considered as an opener

 

Both Jaiswal and Kohli are leagues ahead of Dube. Drop him I say but ideally I would drop Jadeja. On WI pitches, Dube may fire but we all know Jadeja won't do anything.

[lemsip]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

Not specifically talking about y day match. But in general he bats like this when simple stand and deliver stuff will do.

He makes it difficult for the opposing captain to set fields and breaks up the bowlers' rhythms as he did to Rauf yesterday. He is an unconventional package but it works most of the time and especially in tough conditions. There are enough players in the batting order  to play conventional innings. As many times before in his career, his innings stood out and was the difference between a somewhat competitive score and an embarrassing one.

 

[Need4Speed]

in his awful state if he is making 40 I am happy..he is out of syllabus for every captain..We dont want to rely on him but let him create all the difference..play him like a wild card..

now see we have Dube,Jadeja etc to compare with :D

[cowboysfan]

T20 is not his game but if his only competition is Sanju Samson then i will pick him every time/