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Star Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has recently made his comeback in international cricket following a sabbatical from the recently ODI series against Bangladesh. Pant is currently a part of the Indian team in the ongoing first of the three-match Test series against the hosts. The 25-year-old southpaw has been in the headlines since his poor outings in the New Zealand series.
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Recently, former Pakistan skipper and batter Salman Butt has talked about Rishabh Pant's fitness. Butt felt that the Indian batter is overweight, Subsequently, Butt assessed the batting performance of Pant in the first Test against Shakib's men. The 38-year-old claimed that Pant has some innovative shots in his kitty but he feels it hard to execute due to poor fitness.
He went for something innovative and got out - Salman Butt on Rishabh Pant
"Rishabh Pant was playing the way he likes to, but he went for something innovative and got out. It was a weird dismissal as the ball hit the bat, and pad before rattling the stumps. I always speak about Rishabh Pant's fitness because of the kind of shots he plays and tries to innovate, it would be easier for him to execute those shots if he was fit. I think he is overweight. Definitely, he is overweight and because of that, he is not very agile. He is under the level where he should be, in terms of fitness," said Butt while talking about Pant in a video on his YouTube channel.
Talking about Pant's batting in the series opener of the Test series, he scored 46 runs with six boundaries and two sixes to his name. Later on, the senior specialist Cheteshwar Pujara and Shreyas Iyer took the charge and stitched a brilliant partnership of 149 runs for the fifth wicket in the first innings of the ongoing Test against Bangladesh.
India posted a total of 404 runs in the first innings, thanks to the late partnership of 92 runs for the eighth wicket between Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep. Ashwin scored 58 runs followed by a 40-run knock from Kuldeep.