India’s wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant reckons that Virat Kohl’s experience will help India to deal with the pressure situation.
“He (Kohli) can actually teach you how to go through situations, which might help you in your cricket journey going forward, so it is nice batting with him as always,” Pant quoted the T20 World Cup site.
“It’s good to have someone with a lot of experience batting with you because he can take you through how to take the game on and how to maintain that run-a-ball pressure kind of thing.”
Pakistan outplayed India in the T20 World Cup last year with the help of brilliant knocks from Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam. They ended up winning the match by 10 wickets.
He added, “I fondly remember that I smacked Hasan Ali for two sixes in the same over, We were just trying to get the run rate up because we lost early wickets and we staged a partnership – me and Virat. “We were increasing the run rate and I smacked him for two sixes with one hand… my special shot.”
Pant also talked about the experience of playing against Pakistan as he said, “It’s always special playing against Pakistan because there is a special hype around that match as always.
“There are so many emotions involved, not only for us but the fans and everyone. It’s a different kind of feeling, a different kind of ambience when you go on to the field and when you take on the field, you see people cheering here and there. “It’s a different atmosphere and when we were singing our national anthem, I actually get goosebumps”.
India squad for ICC T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami.