TIL Desk Sports/ Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar empathised with the struggling Rishabh Pant, saying the wicketkeeper-batsman needs to be given enough chances to prove himself. After botching up a stumping in the second Twenty20 in Rajkot, Pant perished while attempting a slog in the series-decider in Nagpur on Sunday.
“There are two-three thankless jobs in this game. One is the umpires’ job. If he gets nine decisions right but one decision wrong, the wrong one gets talked about. Same thing with the wicketkeepers, they can do 95 percent of the things right but the one miss is talked about,” Gavaskar said.
“Same thing is happening at the moment with Rishabh. His lapses are talked about more when otherwise he is keeping well.” Gavaskar’s comments came a day after Rohit Sharma asked Pant’s critics to leave him alone for a while and let him play with freedom.
