Along with Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant will be one of the two wicketkeepers in India's 15-man T20 World Cup roster. The young left-handed batter's recent T20 performance hasn't been fantastic, either. His scores in the recently finished Asia Cup were 14, 17, and 20*. In 58 T20 Internationals, he has a career strike rate of 126.21 and an average of 23.94. Dinesh Karthik is supported in the starting XI by several pundits due to his subpar recent T20 performance. Salman Butt, a former captain of the Pakistan cricket team, had an intriguing perspective on Pant's ongoing T20I failures.

"His skill and his strength are too many shots. His downfall is too many shots. Too many shots all at once. When he is successful, he looks spectacular. His range is good and he is brave too. So many shots. And that's the problem. At times, you need to calculate like take a single after hitting. But he has so much belief in his abilities that he goes for them, and when he fails to connect people ask, 'what's the problem?'. When he connects, you say 'what a player'. He is someone who has a free-hand to express himself. That's the way he is going to be," Salman Butt said in a discussion on his YouTube channel.