Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will play for the Delhi Capitals (DC) in the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL), according to Director of Cricket Sourav Ganguly.
Rishabh Pant, the captain of Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League, has not played since he was hurt in a terrible vehicle accident in December of last year. He was in the collision and has been recovering for several months due to various injuries.
In encouraging news, on Thursday, November 9, the keeper-batter trained alongside his Delhi Capitals colleagues at the Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus.
In a PTI article, Sourav Ganguly was reported as stating, while discussing this with reporters recently:
“He’s (Pant) good now. He will play in the IPL next season.”
Sourav Ganguly
The former captain of India disclosed that Pant is spending three days in Kolkata planning team-building exercises in front of the December 19 IPL auctions in Dubai.
Additional information on Pant’s visit to the training camp was provided by the cricket director of the team. He said:
“Rishabh won’t be practicing here though. There’s still time for him to get down to practice. By January (2024), he’ll get even better. We were talking about the team. He is the captain, so he put in his views regarding the upcoming auction. That’s the reason he has come here, to finalize certain aspects related to the team.”
During IPL 2023, veteran Australian opener David Warner captained Delhi Capitals in Rishabh Pant’s absence. DC had an unremarkable season, ranking 9th out of 14 teams with 5 wins and 9 defeats.
Rishabh Pant’s career stats
With scores of 2271, 865, and 987 runs in 33 Tests, 30 ODIs, and 66 T20Is, respectively, Rishabh Pant, 26, has played for India. In tests, he has a good average of 43.67, with five hundreds and eleven fifty.
The daring left-hander has an unimpressive average of 34.60 in one-day internationals and 22.43 in twenty-two-over cricket. On the other hand, Pant’s strike rates in the 50-over and 20-over formats are 106.65 and 126.37, respectively.
In December 2022, the hitter last played for India against Bangladesh in the Mirpur Test.
The southpaw has 2838 runs from 98 appearances in the Indian Premier League, averaging 34.61 with a strike rate of 147.97.