Ahead of the Test of the three-match series against South Africa, the Indian team management had to make a tough call of choosing between Wriddhiman Saha and Rishabh Pant as the first-choice wicketkeeper in the playing XI. Pant had wasted many chances in the limited-overs format but Saha was coming back after recovering from his injury as well as he recently performed well for India A.
However, the Indian skipper Virat Kohli cleared it ahead of the match that Saha will play the first Test instead of Pant and according to him 34-year-old is the best wicketkeeper in the world. Now, the former Indian skipper, Sourav Ganguly has laid his opinion over the Chennai born gloveman.
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Ganguly thinks that India should look forward and concentrate on one wicketkeeper in Test to avoid any type of confusion. but feels that Kohli will be taking the final call over his preference. However, Dada also feels the same as Virat said earlier in the conference that Saha is currently the best gloveman available in all conditions as he said, “He (Saha) is our own boy… He is the best wicketkeeper in the world. Rishabh has also been very successful. Now, it’s a call Kohli has to take, whom he wants to play in the long term.”
When he was asked about Mayank Agarwal and his future, he is still not sure over the youngster over the basis of just one brilliant knock, Dada wants to see the Karnataka batsman sustain his form at least for one year.
Ganguly elaborated, “The problem is we come to conclusions very quickly. With one hundred we will say he’s your first choice opener and so on. But with a couple of failures, you would say otherwise. This has to stop.”
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In the first Test match, Mayank Agarwal went onto score his maiden double ton in his international career and he also partnered Rohit Sharma in a record partnership of 317 runs whereas Saha didn’t have a great Test match as he only scored 21 runs and dropped an important catch of Dean Elgar in the early thirties after which he registered his first-ever century against India. India won the match by 203 runs on Day 5
