Why carry Pant to warm bench, DC co-owner Parth Jindal asks
Updated On: 14 February, 2020 07:20 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Parth Jindal remarked that instead of staying in the reserves during the limited-overs leg of the New Zealand tour, Pant should have ideally played for India A against New Zealand A.
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New Delhi: Parth Jindal, the director of JSW Sports and co-owner of IPL franchise Delhi Capitals, has questioned the exclusion of Rishabh Pant and Ravichandran Ashwin from India's limited-over teams. Jindal's comments are uncommon because IPL team owners usually refrain themselves from making comments on national selection matters.
Describing both of them as "X-factor" players in a series of tweets, Jindal said not playing Pant in the limited-overs leg of the New Zealand series "made no sense" while he failed to understand the "aversion" to a "wicket-taker" like Ashwin.
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