How can you send out-of-form Rishabh Pant ahead of world's No.1 batter?’: Salman Butt on Suryakumar Yadav

Rishabh Pant did not have the best of times in New Zealand. That he was the first-choice keeper-batter and not Sanju Samson in both T20Is and ODIs was evident by stand-in captain Shikhar Dhawan and acting head coach VVS Laxman words at the end of the three-match ODI series which India lost 1-0. In the four innings that Pant batted in the rain-affected limited-overs tour, he registered scores of 6 and 11 in the T20Is and then managed only 15 and 10 in the ODIs. What would disappoint Pant and the team management is the fact that he failed to get the desired results even after batting at his preferred position in both ODIs and T20Is. He opened the batting in the shortest format of the game while he was given the No.4 slot in the ODIs.