Rishabh Pant Branded “Stubborn”, Told “It’s Not Working” After Another Flop Show

Bought for a whopping price of INR 27 crore within the Indian Premier League (IPL) mega public sale, Rishabh Pant has unarguably been the largest flop of the season to date. With a mean of simply over 12, Pant has tried his hand at completely different roles within the batting order however did not ship in any. As the Lucknow Super Giants’ prime three incurred a uncommon failure towards Punjab Kings on Sunday, the highlight fell on Pant to resurrect the workforce’s chase of 237 runs. But the style of his dismissal as soon as once more mirrored the wayward marketing campaign he has had to date.

Former Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians batter Ambati Rayudu did not mince his phrases as he prompt Pant drop his ‘stubbornness’ and look to study from the errors he has made.

“I think, at this point in time, I’m feeling very sorry for him because he’s not been changing his batting order or his approach,” Rayudu stated on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out. “I think he’s being pretty stubborn about how he wants to go about things. It’s not working in his favour at the moment. It happens in this sport, to be very honest, and he is going through a very, very bad patch. It can happen to anybody. I just hope that he takes this learning and improves on it and doesn’t become even more stubborn, but just accepts the fact that he is struggling and starts doing things a little differently, and try and get better every day. That’s all you can do.”

From No. 3 to No. 7, Pant has performed all throughout the middle-order for LSG however did not ship in any. For Rayudu, opening stays his finest place in white-ball codecs. In truth, the previous India batter feels Pant would not even have the required expertise for a middle-order batter.

“I think more than anything, it’s just the clarity of what he wants to do because Pant ideally for me is an opener in white-ball cricket, because in the middle order, he has not been great. I know he loves playing in the middle, but he doesn’t have the batsmanship that is required or the skill set. Maybe he has the skillset, but not the mindset to execute that.”

“That shows that mentally he is not very relaxed and very calm. At the moment, the word that I would use is he lacks confidence,” he concluded.