The IPL has reached the halfway mark and now the selectors have also started their exercise of selecting the players for the T20 World Cup which is going to take place in June in USA and West Indies.
One of the most difficult jobs for the selectors is to select the wicketkeeper-batter for the team because there are so many options. While Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson are performing pretty well in the IPL 2024, Indian cricket fans are urging the BCCI to also consider Dinesh Karthik for the squad because of his blistering knocks that he played for RCB in the ongoing IPL 2024.
However, the former Aussie cricketer Ricky Ponting is quite clear as to whom he will choose. He said, “Do I believe whether Rishabh should be there in the World Cup squad? Absolutely I do. He deserves to be in that WT20 squad by the end of the IPL, I think we have seen Rishabh play the way we have seen him play in the last six seasons of IPL and now back playing for India.”
He further added, “One thing we certainly know is that there is a lot of depth around Indian cricket, with keeper batters and I feel some guys are in really good form at the moment. Kishan is playing well, Samson is playing well and KL Rahul is playing well, there’s a lot of options there but if I was picking a team, I would have Rishabh Pant in it every day of the week.”
However, Ricky Ponting is currently associated with Delhi Capitals as the head coach and the skipper of DC is Rishabh Pant so the question is whether we should give value to Ponting’s opinion. What is your take in regard to this matter?
