Rishabh Pant shouldn’t let MS Dhoni put his arms round his shoulders: Sunil Gavaskar

The Rishabh Pant vs MS Dhoni captain’s face-off — which has led to the Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK) IPL 2021 match being billed as a battle between the grasp and his apprentice, shouldn’t be one thing that Delhi’s 23-year-old captain ought to enable to overwhelm him, stated Sunil Gavaskar.
“The one thing I would like Rishabh Pant to do when he goes out for the toss is that if there is no social distancing, I just want him to make sure that he doesn’t allow MS Dhoni to put his arms around his shoulders. That sometimes can be a sign of somebody who is saying ‘Listen, you’re a little guy, I’m the big guy’. So that little worry signal he should try and avoid,” Gavaskar stated on Star Sports forward of the beginning of the CSK-DC recreation on Saturday.

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Pant grew to become the fifth-youngest captain to guide a crew within the IPL on Saturday.
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Pant received the toss on his IPL captaincy debut and opted to bowl in opposition to Chennai Super Kings in Match 2 of the IPL 2021 on the Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.
“It will be a mix of youth and experience, have done a bit of captaincy in 2017, but my first IPL game,” Pant stated on the toss, opting to subject first.

.@DelhiCapitals Skipper @RishabhPant17 wins the toss and elects to bowl first in opposition to @ChennaiIPL.
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DC had named Pant as their captain for IPL 2021 after their common skipper Shreyas Iyer was dominated out with a shoulder harm. Pant has captained Delhi’s state crew prior to now. He was additionally Delhi’s skipper within the Syed Mushtaq Ali match in 2017. At the age of 23, Pant has turn out to be the fifth-youngest captain in IPL after Steve Smith, Virat Kohli (RCB), Suresh Raina (CSK) and Shreyas Iyer (DC).
MS Dhoni stated on the toss: “You want to make the most of whatever is left. It feels good to be back and we had some good time in terms of preparation.”