Sourav Ganguly Predicts Rishabh Pant As Future ‘All-Time Great’ In Test Cricket, Suggests ‘To Get Better In…’

New Delhi: The comeback of Rishabh Pant into red-ball cricket has been the major talking points of the continuing Duleep Trophy as he gears up for his return to Test cricket your entire way throughout the upcoming India-Bangladesh series. Having recovered from a car accident in December 2022, Pant is in line to play his first Test when the series gets underway on September 19.

Sourav Ganguly, thought to be one among India’s greatest captains and a former BCCI president, expressed that he's now no longer surprised by Rishabh Pant’s swift return to the Test squad, declaring it became expected as soon as Pant became readily on hand. “I've self assurance Rishabh Pant one among India’s best Test batsmen. I’m now no longer surprised that he’s back your entire way throughout the side, and he'll continue to play for India in Tests,” Ganguly said at a promotional event here.

The auto crash in December 2022, earlier than which he brought his career to a screeching halt for over a year, had seen Rishabh Pant emerge as one in your entire foremost explosive Test batters across the realm. He scored 2,271 runs in 33 Test matches at a mean of 43.sixty seven, including five centuries and eleven 1/2-centuries. Aggressive as any player in world cricket, Pant boasts a career strike rate of seventy three.sixty three and has two hundreds every in England, Australia, and South Africa.

Ganguly works closely with Rishabh Pant at the Delhi Capitals IPL side, with Pant as captain and Ganguly as Director of Cricket and mentor. Ganguly said Pant should center of attention on his effectiveness in limited-overs cricket.

“He'll be an all-time great in Tests if he keeps performing like this. For me, he must recuperate your entire way throughout the shorter formats. With the talent he has, I’m sure with time, he'll change into one in your entire most effective,” he said.