India skipper Virat Kohli and head coach Ravi Shastri have announced their verdict on Rishabh Pant with the ICC T20 World Cup just around the corner.

Pant has been highly criticised for his poor shot selection for a long time now and during an interview with Star Sports, Shastri explained how some of Pant's shot selection had let the entire team and himself down.

"When you see a shot like the one in Trinidad, off the first ball, (it's disappointing)," Shastri said while referring to the wicket-keeper batsman's dismissal to Fabian Allen's delivery during India's third ODI vs West Indies in Port-of-Spain.

"He tries to repeat it a couple of times and gets out, he will be told," Shastri added.

"There will be a rap on the knuckles there - talent or no talent - because you are letting the team down, forget letting yourself down. You are letting the team down in a situation where you have the captain at the other end. You have a target to chase where the need of the hour is some sensible cricket."

That was Pant's second first-ball zero of the Windies tour. In the first T20I in Lauderhill, Sunil Narine's floated delivery caught the top-edged of Pant's bat during his attempts to play a sweep shot.

"No one will change his style but match awareness becomes crucial, shot selection becomes crucial in particular situations," Shastri said.

"If he can fathom that out, he could be unstoppable. You mentioned how many games, it could be one game, it could be four games. I don't see more than that. He will learn. He has played enough IPL cricket. So it's time now for him to step on to the stage and just show the world how devastating he is."

"There will be a rap on the knuckles there - talent or no talent - because you are letting the team down, forget letting yourself down."

Skipper also Virat Kohli expressed his thoughts over the 21-year-old and said he to read the situations better.

"Expectations are only of reading situations," Kohli said during the same interview.

"You don't expect a guy to play according to what you might be thinking. It's about analysing the situation and finding your own way of dealing with the situation."

"Someone like Rishabh might hit five boundaries in a difficult situation compared to me who likes to take ones and twos and get out of it. So everyone has their own game. But reading the situation and decision-making is the expectation from all the players, including myself," he added. 

Virat then went on to add how youngsters have found a spot in the Indian side because the team needs to pick the right players with the right mentality.  

"Youngsters are being pushed into the side from time to time because you need to figure out who are the people who have the mentality, the mindset and the character to take the (team's) vision forward."

"We hope they establish themselves and grab those chances. From the team and the management point of view, we are clear on the fact that you will get about five opportunities and you have to make the most of it. That's the level we are playing at," he said.

"I think the individuals coming in need to have that mindset. The guys who grab those opportunities quickly, they just grab the opportunities. It's a delicate balance to strike but it's necessary because you have 30 matches and you have to figure it out how much time each individual can be given."