Rishabh Pant Is Virender Sehwag Of This Generation: Sanjay Manjrekar

Sanjay Manjrekar is full of praise for wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant. The cricketer-turned-commentator has called him the Virender Sehwag of the present generation and similar to Sehwag, Pant needs to be handled in a different manner and ought to be allowed to play cricket the way he wants. "Penny dropped for me last night. Rishabh is this generation's Viru. Batsman who needs to be treated differently... which is to just let him be. You either pick him or drop him but never try and change him," said Manjrekar on Twitter.

Pant played a crucial knock in the Eliminator on May 8, scoring 49 runs off 21 balls as Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH). It was the first time DC had won a knockout match in the history of the IPL.

Pant has scored 450 runs in the 15 matches that he's played in IPL 2019 for Delhi Capitals, averaging 37.5, with a strike rate of 163.63. So far, he has scored three half-centuries and his best score came against the Mumbai Indians on March 24, where he scored an unbeaten 78 off 27 balls.