In what’s nice information from Indian cricket and the Delhi Capitals workforce, wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant will probably be again main the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise within the 2024 season, confirmed Director of Cricket and former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Thursday. Pant arrived on the DC pre-season coaching camp occurring on the Jadavpur University Salt Lake campus floor in Kolkata.
“Rishabh Pant is in good shape. He will play from next season. He will not practice now. He is here till 11th November. We had a discussion about the team with Pant as he is the captain of the team, considering the upcoming auctions,” Sourav Ganguly instructed India Today in Kolkata.
Pant has been out of worldwide cricket since a horrific automobile crash close to Dehradun in December las 12 months. The Indian wicketkeeper has been recuperating on the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru after present process a number of surgical procedures for ligament injury in his knee after the automobile accident.
The DC captain won’t be practising with the bat or be seen behind the stumps in the course of the four-day camp in Kolkata however will probably be a part of workforce discussions forward of IPL 2024 mini public sale, which is about to happen in Dubai on December 19 this 12 months.
“Rishabh won’t be practising here though. There’s still time for him to get down to practice. By January (2024), he’ll get even better,” Ganguly was quoted as saying by Telegraph newspaper.
“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 finalise certain aspects related to the team,” Ganguly added.
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DC had been led by Australian opener David Warner within the absence of Pant within the IPL 2023 season. After making the Playoffs in IPL 2021 and 2022, DC completed in quantity 9 place on the Points Table in 2023, with simply 5 wins in 14 matches below Warner.
Pant has turned out in 98 matches in IPL to this point and scored 2,838 runs at a median of 34.61 with a strike-rate of 147.97 with 1 hundred and 15 fifties to his title. The Indian wicketkeeper is anticipated to make his worldwide comeback within the five-match Test collection towards England starting in January subsequent 12 months.
