{"id":624054,"date":"2026-06-06T07:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624054\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:35:23","slug":"after-vice-captaincy-snub-gautam-gambhir-sends-respect-situation-warning-to-rishabh-pant-ahead-of-afghanistan-test-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624054\/","title":{"rendered":"After vice-captaincy snub, Gautam Gambhir sends &#8216;respect situation&#8217; warning to Rishabh Pant ahead of Afghanistan Test | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ijm-2026-06-05t125040022.jpg\" alt=\"After vice-captaincy snub, Gautam Gambhir sends 'respect situation' warning to Rishabh Pant ahead of Afghanistan Test\" title=\"Rishabh Pant, Gautam Gambhir\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Rishabh Pant, Gautam Gambhir NEW DELHI: India head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/gautam-gambhir\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gautam Gambhir<\/a> on Friday stressed that <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rishabh-pant\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rishabh Pant<\/a> does not need to change his natural style of batting but must play according to the demands of the match situation, echoing comments made a day earlier by assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate.Pant was removed as India&#8217;s Test vice-captain when the BCCI announced the squad for the one-off Test against Afghanistan last month. Speaking ahead of the match, which begins on Saturday in New Chandigarh, Gambhir said he continues to back the wicketkeeper-batter but expects him to judge situations better.&#8221;We don&#8217;t want Rishabh Pant to change but international cricket demands players to respect match situations,&#8221; Gambhir said in the pre-match press conference.His remarks came a day after Ten Doeschate spoke about Pant&#8217;s approach to batting and leadership.&#8221;With Rishabh&#8217;s brilliance, we don&#8217;t want to take away all the stuff that he does but occasionally if he can adjust his game to play the (match) situations slightly more, I think that&#8217;s something you&#8217;ll see him work on.&#8221;&#8221;I don&#8217;t think he needs a formal title to be a leader in an elite setup like this, and I think Rishabh understands that,&#8221; Ten Doeschate said on the decision to remove Pant as vice-captain.ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-vs-afghanistan\/india-vs-afghanistan-for-rishabh-pant-a-milestone-50th-test-is-another-starting-point\/articleshow\/131520122.cms\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"strong\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\">For Rishabh Pant, a milestone 50th Test is another starting point<\/a>Pant, 28, is set to play his 50th Test when India take on Afghanistan. In 49 Tests, he has scored 3,476 runs at an average of 42.91 and a strike rate of 74.24, including eight centuries and 18 half-centuries.The landmark match comes after a difficult period for Pant. He endured a poor IPL 2026 season both as batter and captain of Lucknow Super Giants and also lost the Test vice-captaincy to KL Rahul.During the Test series against South Africa and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, Pant&#8217;s attacking approach came under scrutiny at times.The Afghanistan Test now offers him an opportunity to return his focus to red-ball cricket and make an impact with the bat as India begin another Test assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Should the BCCI have removed Rishabh Pant as vice-captain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rishabh Pant, Gautam Gambhir NEW DELHI: India head coach Gautam Gambhir on Friday stressed that Rishabh Pant does&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[186900,1721,18855,9312,52852,7676,101,9984,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan-test","tag-cricket","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-india-test-squad","tag-match-situation","tag-rishabh-pant","tag-sports","tag-test-cricket","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}