IPL 2023: Brad Hogg Asks Ricky Ponting To Let Rishabh Pant Open For Delhi Capitals In IPL 2023

India appears poised to keep Rishabh Pant in the lower middle order, with requests growing for him to begin the innings in both T20 and ODI cricket. Despite being recognised for his aggressiveness and consistency in Test cricket, Pant has not had the same level of success in short overs, notably in T20 cricket. 

Pant has appeared in 32 Test matches, scoring 2169 runs at an average of 43.38, with five hundreds and ten half-centuries. In one-day internationals, he has 865 runs in 30 matches at an average of 34.60, with one century and five half-centuries. He has scored 987 runs in 66 T20Is, with an average strike rate of 22.43 and 126.37, respectively. 

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I Think We Will See A Big IPL From Rishabh Pant This Year: Brad Hogg

Old Australia spinner Brad Hogg now hopes that his former international teammate and skipper Ricky Ponting would allow Pant to begin the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL) season for the Delhi Capitals (DC). Pant is DC’s captain, and Ponting is scheduled to return as the team’s head coach. 

“The only thing that I want to see with Rishabh Pant right now is improvement in white-ball formats. When the field is spread, he doesn’t seem to have much success as he has in Test cricket. He’s up there at the IPL with Ricky Ponting. I think we’ll see a big IPL from Rishabh Pant this year.

He’ll attack the game differently and he’ll have a different role. Hopefully, Ricky Ponting gets him to open rather than (sending him) down the list,” said Hogg on his Youtube channel. 

“With the powerplay, with only two fielders out, those six overs is where he can really do some damage in T20 cricket. It’s the same in the 50-over game.

Try and get him to open, where he can blast away in those first 10 overs with only two out. In the next 30 overs, you can only have four out. There’s still one or two places in the outfield where he can attack,” he said. 

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