Rishabh Pant's omission from India's World Cup squad angers fans

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar on Monday said he is surprised at young glovesman Rishabh Pants exclusion from Indias World Cup squad given his exceptionally good batting form and great improvement in wicketkeeping skillsThe 33yearold Dinesh Karthik pipped Pant in the fight for the second wicketkeepers slot in Indias 15strong squad for the World Cup starting May 30 in England Gavaskar said the move is surprising but backed Karthik as a better wicketkeeperA bit surprised looking at his Pants form He was batting exceptionally well not only in the IPL but before that also He was showing great improvement his wicketkeeping as well He brings that lefthanded option in the topsix which is very handy against the bowlers Gavaskar told India TodayThe bowlers have to change their line for a lefthander and the captains have to do a lot of field arrangementsPant has so far scored 245 runs in the ongoing IPL compared to Karthiks 111Karthik was chosen over Pant despite an indifferent IPL campaign with the Kolkata Knight Riders Gavaskar said there was some merit in the moveOn a morning when say MSD Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a flu and cant play you want somebody who is a better wicketkeeper I think Karthiks wicketkeeping skills more than anything have won him this place Gavaskar saidGavaskar said Tamil Nadu allrounder Vijay Shankar who made it to the squad for his threedimensional qualities will be a very useful player for the teamHe is a cricketer who has improved over the last one year He has grown in confidence Shankar is a very useful cricketer He is a very very good batsman handy bowler and an outstanding fielder the batting great explainedFormer Indian batsman Aakash Chopra said Pants elevation to the top tier of the central contracts had him believe that the youngster would make Indias World Cup squadWasnt Pant elevated to the top tier of the Central Contracts a few weeks back Not a certainty in two of the three formats Chopra wrote on his twitter pageWasnrsquot Pant elevated to the top tier of the Central Contracts a few weeks back Not a certainty in two of the three formats ethu00c2u009fu00c2u0098u00c2u0090ethu00c2u009fcurrenumlmdash Aakash Chopra cricketaakash April 15 2019India has picked Shankar as 4 option Without really knowing if itll work DK will play only when Dhoni isnt available And no fourth seamer Interesting choices Hope it works Good luck CWCSo India has picked Shankar as 4 option Without really knowing if itrsquoll work DK will play only when Dhoni isnrsquot available And no fourth seamer Interesting choices Hope it works acircu00c2u0098ordmiumlcedilu00c2u008fethu00c2u009fcurrenu00c2u0097Good luck ethu00c2u009fu00c2u0091u00c2u008dethu00c2u009fu00c2u0099u00c2u008c CWCmdash Aakash Chopra cricketaakash April 15 2019Former India mediumpacer R P Singh and star of Indias 2007 World T20 triumph said he hoped that the decision to pick experience over youth works in the teams favour at the megaeventClearly theyve chosen experience and patience in the form of DineshKarthik Middle order will be very interesting to see klrahul11DineshKarthik could be at number 4 Rest seems sorted with JadhavKedar and msdhoni at number 56 Singh tweetedHigh voltage expectations from this group Clearly theyve chosen experience and patience in the form of DineshKarthik Middle order will be very interesting to see klrahul11DineshKarthik could be at number 4 Rest seems sorted with JadhavKedar and msdhoni at number 56mdash R P Singh agravecurrendegagraveyenu00c2u0081agravecurrenbrvbaragraveyenu00c2u008dagravecurrendeg agravecurrenordfagraveyenu00c2u008dagravecurrendegagravecurrencurrenagravecurrenfrac34agravecurrenordf agravecurrencedilagravecurreniquestagravecurrenu00c2u0082agravecurrensup1 rpsingh April 15 2019Rishabh Pamts fans however were not too amused by their favourite players omission from the team and they took to Twitter to vent out their frustrationRishabh Pant gt Vijay ShankarWtf BCCI Kitne allrounders bharogemdash Sagar sagarcasm April 15 2019Rishabh pant and ambati rayudu looking at world cup squadworldcupsquad pictwittercomZhIUTS8AZemdash Aaryan sharma since19years April 15 2019Dinesh Karthik after knowing that he is selected instead of Rishabh Pant in Indias World Cup squadCWC19 WorldCup2019 TeamIndia WC2019Squad pictwittercompu5QF0gUe1mdash Sir Pant PANTishwer April 15 2019worldcupsquad WorldCup2019BCCI selects Dinesh Kartik Over Rishabh PantRishabh Pant to BCCI pictwittercomD9XVTArpmUmdash N I T I N theNitinWalke April 15 2019Rishabh Pant to BCCI pictwittercomHnehWV41UWmdash Bollywood Gandu BollywoodGandu April 15 2019If possible then think again before Picking DK and Shankar over RishabhPant After all he is the wicket keeper of Number 1 Team in Test Matches ethu00c2u009fcurrenuml pictwittercomFu5gECiduDmdash Neeraj ethu00c2u009fu00c2u0087regethu00c2u009fu00c2u0087sup3 neeraj21345 April 15 2019cricket rishabhpant india worldcup teamindia hindimemes pictwittercomqYJ8TBvo89mdash The Bindaas Bro The_Bindaas_Bro April 15 2019how come you people ignore rishabh pant who can win the matches singlehandedly on his dayvery disappointed to see this i hate the board for thismdash Thrinath Kumar thrinath75 April 15 2019Rishabh Pant Right NowCWC19 WC2019Squad pictwittercomHxhDn3N3mimdash pramod bagade pramodbagade1 April 15 2019Dont you think if has to be back up option Rishabh pant with X factor was a better option than DK I know there is experience but we hv a lot of experience but lacks X factor mdash Geetika ethu00c2u009fu00c2u008fu00c2u008fethu00c2u009fu00c2u008fu00c2u008f Geetikatuli April 15 2019Now the team is already declared Shikhar and B Kumar have regularly performed poorly but selected and Rishabh Pant has been dropped I think Ishant Sharma could have been very useful in English conditions and would have succeeded He has improved a lot as swing bowlermdash rajnish aggarwal rajanishagg April 15 2019Dropping Rishabh Pant from the World Cup squad for Dinesh Karthik is a defensive mindset by the selectors and management Rishabh Pant has the X Factor Dinesh Karthik doesnt Other 14 perfect picks ethu00c2u009fu00c2u0099u00c2u008cCWC19 WorldCup2019 TeamIndiamdash Siddharth Jha jha_siddhus91 April 15 2019Selection of Dinesh Kartik ahead of Rishabh Pant is totally foolish The qualitative difference between these two are quite apparent during previous matches be it in India or abroad Very poor selection ICCworldcup2019 BCCI TOIIndiaNews IndiaTodaymdash D Deb DDebKol April 15 2019You got to feel for Rishabh pant But enough chances in odi for himVijay shankar truly deserves the place bcz of his allround ability Jadeja too deserves as an all rounder which he is performing since Asia cupmdash Amit Vaghela Amit_raja12 April 15 2019Also Read Indias World Cup 2019 squad announced Dinesh Karthik Vijay Shankar in Pant Rayadu miss outCatch up on all the latest IPL News and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates