Mumbai: Risabh Pant is an outstanding talent and should be groomed properly so that he becomes the next big thing in Indian cricket, feels India’s 2011 World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh.
Yuvraj’s comments came after Pant showed his heroics with the bat once again and played a match-winning unbeaten 78 off just 27 balls for Delhi Capitals against Mumbai Indians in the lung opener between the two sides.
“I can’t really say about (World Cup) selection but Rishabh was outstanding today,” 37-year-old Yuvraj said.
“He (Pant) had an outstanding season last year as well. He is playing well in Test matches as well. To score two hundreds overseas at such an age (21 years) shows his character. It is important that we groom him well and hopefully he is the next big thing for us,” said Yuvraj.
Yuvraj said that skipper Rohit Sharma’s early dismissal had an effect as they were chasing a big total.
“Losing Rohit (Sharma) early (was one of the reasons). (Quinton) de Kock was going well but (we) lost his wicket. (Kieron) Pollard came and quickly lost his wicket. We really couldn’t get partnerships going. The wicket was more of 180-190 wicket, 215 (213) was quite a match-winning score,” he said.
PTI