India’s young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has been going through a purple patch in his career now. Moreover, in IPL 2021, he led Delhi Capitals for the very time in his life in the absence of Shreyas Iyer. Notably, he led India to victory at Brisbane and then his brilliant hundred against England at Motera impressed each and everyone too. And, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has said that Pant ‘showed a spark’ in his captaincy and can become one in future as well.

“The standout team Delhi Capitals under young Rishabh Pant. By the sixth game, one could see that he was getting tired of being asked about being captain. Every presenter at the post-game ceremony had the same question to him. What he showed was a spark that can become a roaring fire if allowed to burn naturally. Yes, he will make mistakes; which captain doesn’t?” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

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“But like he showed in the few games in the IPL that he is clever enough to learn and his usual street-smart savvy meant he was on top of most situations and was finding his own method to get out of sticky ones. He is one for the future, no doubt about it. That’s because he has shown that talent can meet opportunity only when it walks hand in hand with temperament,” he further added.

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However, Rishabh Pant, who is now at home after the recently suspended Indian Premier League, has also donated an undisclosed amount of money for the Oxygen cylinders for COVID-19 patients in the country.

“I am supporting the Hemkunt Foundation through a monetary donation that will help provide O2 Cylinders with Beds, kits and much more to the suffering across the country,” I am especially keen to work with organisations providing medical aid and support to rural India and non-metro cities which do not have the capacity of the medical infrastructure of the major cities,” he shared on Twitter.