Pant only with his batting, and Jadeja & Ashwin exclusively in India where they were genuine all-rounders. Those days are almost gone now and soon we're going to have to reconsider our entire approach to combinations, home and away.
you might on also agree that as a pure bat he averages 66, hence he is the next best to Bradman
This should be the format. Three seamers, Kuldeep and six batsmen and Pant. Pant is likely to improve with time, so I will keep him. Unless he finds Kuldeep a night mare, don't see a reason to drop him.
Almost 50 tests in and we're waiting for improvement?
Very true, reckon India would put Dhruv Jurel as the keeper and play Pant as a bat down the line, assuming Pant agrees to hand over the gloves.
So it will take him 99 tests to be better than Bradman.
If he continues this way, he will be seen as a arguably the best batsman among keepers but a poor keeper
Yeah, that wouldn't make him ATG imo. He'd need to be a fairly better batsman to make up for his keeping.
I reckon it would. It would be like a batting allrounder who was a decent 5th bowler and averaged 45 with the bat and 33-35 with the ball. I'd call that ATG.
Which doesn't bring you to ATG level. With an average of 44, you're not even a "great" batsman.
Great WK batsman.