Not Shubman Gill! Rishabh Pant Rated 2nd Best Option For India Test Captaincy After Jasprit Bumrah

While Pant‘s cricket vocation is backmost connected track, batting fable Virender Sehwag reckons that the mishap and consequent dip successful signifier meant the 27-year-old whitethorn person mislaid retired to Shubman Gill successful the contention for the India Test captaincy.

The Indian enactment committee, headed by Ajit Agarkar, precocious named Gill arsenic the Test skipper portion Pant has been handed implicit the vice-captaincy duties.

Sehwag said Pant’s interaction successful Test cricket is akin to that of batting superstar Virat Kohli successful presumption of drafting viewers to the format.

“What Rishabh Pant has done successful Test cricket nary different subordinate has. After Virat Kohli, if determination is 1 subordinate who made fans ticker Test cricket, it’s Rishabh Pant," Sehwag said connected Cricbuzz.

“The mode helium has played Test cricket, the benignant of performances helium has successful Australia, helium isn’t talked astir arsenic much, but helium has been the apical performer erstwhile India won bid successful Australia. But due to the fact that helium had that accident, got injured and past returned, helium couldn’t marque overmuch of an impact, and possibly that’s wherefore helium was made the vice-captain with hopes if helium tin bounce backmost to signifier and starts making runs, if a alteration is needed, they tin name Pant arsenic the skipper successful future."

Sehwag thinks that the selectors went with a semipermanent enactment successful Gill since Jasprit Bumrah is expected to beryllium retired from a fewer Tests to negociate his workload.

“See, for a series, naming Jasprit Bumrah (captain) is fine. But if you look astatine the semipermanent option, volition Bumrah beryllium portion of each Tests successful a year? If determination are 10 Tests, volition helium play all? If not 10, past five? If not five, past however many? So based connected that, a skipper was picked," Sehwag said.

“In my opinion, this is the close determination that since you cannot sanction Bumrah who has to transportation truthful overmuch bowling load successful Test cricket, past (pick) second-best option. In my view, Rishabh Pant is the second-best option, and Shubman Gill is 3rd best," helium added.

Sehwag said bowlers starring Test squad is simply a rarity.

“Very fewer bowlers are made the captain. In my career, I conscionable saw 1 bowler who became skipper – Anil Kumble whose spot are assured successful Tests, and helium liked the format and was disposable too," helium said.