Lucknow: The Super-8 matches of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 are being played. In this series, the match was played between India and Afghanistan at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. In this match, India won the toss and decided to bat first and their decision proved wrong as Team India made a slow start. Captain Rohit Sharma could score only 8 runs in 13 balls in this match and got out. After this, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant came on the field and started playing big shots.

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Rishabh could not play a big innings in this match but he gave India a quick start in the power play by playing aggressive cricket. Seeing his fearless game, former great Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar could not stop himself from praising him. Seeing Pant's batting, Gavaskar compared him to former Indian opener Virender Sehwag. Gavaskar has made a big statement about Pant during a conversation on Star Sports.

He said, “Whenever we see Virender Sehwag and Rishabh Pant playing, we think that they should keep playing like this. Pant plays in this way and he plays very aggressive cricket. Veeru also played in the same way and it is fun to watch such players play. When such players get out after playing a shot, we think what did they do.”

Let us tell you that in the match played against the Afghan team, the left-handed batsman could not play a long innings. During this, he scored 20 runs facing 11 balls and during this, 4 fours came off his bat. Rishabh used the sweep shot in this innings and played cricket fearlessly. Sehwag also used to play cricket in the same way and now Sunil has made a big statement about the 26-year-old and compared him to Virender Sehwag.

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