Former India cricketer Suresh Raina has supported wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant for inclusion in the T20I team. Pant was last in action during the five-match 2025 Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England. He featured in four Tests, scoring 479 runs at an average of 68.42, including three fifties and two centuries as well.

Recently, Suresh Raina attended a podcast with Shubhankar Mishra on his YouTube channel, saying, “He should come back. In the last game (IPL), he scored a century. This year, there was a bit of pressure, the kind of tag that sometimes comes as an expensive player. I think he managed really well. I think he didn’t score runs this year, because he always performs well in the IPL.”

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“This year it was a new team, new captain, after Delhi he went to that franchise. Next year, Rishabh’s performance will be a bit different because now he has understood the environment, which players have the ability to change the game,” he said.

“And there was also a new coaching setup there. It takes a year for any team, as I said earlier, earlier there were eight teams and now there are 10, and everyone comes prepared. They do homework on every player, because after your 15 to 19 players, there are 10 to 15 support staff there. They keep looking for weaknesses in players. So next year when he comes, I think he will definitely do well,” Suresh Raina concluded.