Gautam Gambhir wants Rishabh Pant to master this special art of MS Dhoni

Gautam Gambhir was really impressed with Rishabh Pant's splendid batting performance in first ODI against West Indies at MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday. youngster added 114 runs with Shreyas Iyer after India had lost ir top-order early. Pant went on to score his maiden ODI half-century and also registered his highest score in 50-overs format. Meanwhile, Gambhir also has an expectation from wicket-keeper batsman.

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Gautam Gambhir wants Pant to be a 'Finisher'

While analyzing Rishabh Pant's performance on a cricket show which is hosted by official broadcasters of bilateral series, Gautam Gambhir said that Rishabh Pant needs to be consistent. former opening batsman n added that even though he is t playing red-ball cricket, he is part of squad and is w playing in all three formats of game. Gambhir also mentioned that team manment is showing confidence in him and refore, he needs to be more consistent. At same time, 2011 World Cup winner also went on to say that wicket-keeper batsman needs to convert 60s & 70s into three-figure scores just like what MS Dhoni used to do. former left-handed batsman was confident that even if Pant does t man to get big 100s, he can finish games for India.

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Rishabh Pant appreciates Chennai crowd

During post-match press conference after 1st ODI, when he was asked about crowd support that he had got from fans present at Chepauk Stadium, Rishabh Pant said that sometimes it is important when crowd supports a player. He n went on to say that as an individual, he was thinking of scoring big runs but was t able to get re. 22-year-old also mentioned that he is just trying to improve every day. wicket-keeper batsman also added that from team's point of view, he was focussing on whatever he could do to help his team win and put up a good score on scoreboard and in end, he got some runs. 

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