Veteran\u2009India star Suresh Raina, who has been training alongside some of his Indian teammates in\u2009Ghaziabad, praised young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh\u2009Pant. Pant, who was pegged to be MS\u2009Dhoni\u2019s future replacement, saw several ups and downs in 2019, and in 2020, was replaced in the playing XI by KL\u2009Rahul. Raina, who has been training with Pant, said that the left-hander is a gun player and can do wonders for the team.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the \u2018Follow the Blues\u2019 segment of this week\u2019s episode of Star Sports\u2019 chat show Cricket Connected,\u2009Raina said:\u2009\u201cI have been practising with Rishabh Pant. He was hitting the ball very well. Then I had a net with Shami. All bowlers have been coming here and practising. Piyush Chawla also came, he bowled really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been speaking to a lot of the players, everything has been planned. Deepak Chahar has been playing and MS Dhoni is also training hard at his home. Everyone has to do it because this game requires lot of fitness, lot of commitment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Talking about Pant, Raina further said:\u2009\u201cI think Rishabh Pant has been amazing. He has scored a lot of runs for the country as well as in the IPL and in domestic cricket. He has got two Test hundreds. He played really well in T20s as well as ODIs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he is a gun player, he has a quality future. He needs to be really looked after by his teammates. And then you will see lot of great performances coming from him very soon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On being asked about the preparation plans for the upcoming season of IPL\u2009in UAE, Raina revealed:\u2009\u201cWe are going to have a camp. We have lots to do, we are going there I think 18-20 days before. It is good to go early because IPL is coming and we have been under lockdown for 4-5 months. So, it is good to be there before IPL and it is going to be exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Rishabh Pant losing his place as the starting wicketkeeper batsman to KL Rahul, he will be desperate to outperform this IPL to cement his place in the squad for the delayed T20 World Cup of 2021. With the mega cash rich league ready to make a return, the cricketing festival is sure to provide much needed excitement to a nation reeling from the effects of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI think Rishabh Pant is a gun player, he has a quality future. He needs to be really looked after by his teammates. And then you will see lot of great performances coming from him very soon,\u201d Suresh Raina said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[324,318],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-rishabh-pant","tag-suresh-raina"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}