Star India Nationwide Cricket Group wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant surprisingly did not obtain sufficient appreciation from his skipper Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir after heroics within the Leeds Check.
Rishabh Pant was the highest performer for Group India within the Check sequence opener in opposition to England at Headingley in Leeds, however sadly, he ended up on the dropping facet.
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Rishabh Pant hits historic twin tons
The Indian wicketkeeper-batsman, who can also be the Check vice-captain, took the duty to steer his workforce to an enormous rating in each innings by enjoying sensible knocks.
He batted with a optimistic intent within the match and gave a troublesome time to the bowling unit of the England Nationwide Cricket Group. Pant smashed the bowlers everywhere in the park by batting in his basic unorthodox trend.
Within the first innings, he returned with the rating of 134 runs off 178 balls, together with 12 fours and 6 sixes, and within the second innings, he amassed 118 runs off 140 balls, with 15 fours and three sixes.
As Pant hit twin tons within the Headingley Check, he grew to become solely the second wicketkeeper-batsman in historical past to attain this feat in a Check match after Andy Flower. Additionally, he grew to become the fifth Asian batter to attain two tons in a SENA Check and the primary Indian batter to attain this feat in England.
Shubman Gill highlights Rishabh Pant’s holding blunder
In an interplay with Michael Atherton after the match, Shubman Gill was requested about spinner Ravindra Jadeja’s bowling on Day 5, and the Indian skipper took a second to take a sly dig at Rishabh Pant.
Shubman Gill mentioned that the spinner did a superb job with the ball and produced some wicket-taking alternatives, however Pant spilled a number of probabilities behind the stumps. He acknowledged:
“He bowled brilliantly, I believe he did produce some probabilities for us, a number of pop-ups that Rishabh (Pant) did not take.
“However that occurs in any recreation of cricket, you sort of count on there can be some probabilities that would not go your manner.
Gautam Gambhir downplays Pant’s heroics
In the meantime, talking to the media after the match, India head coach Gautam Gambhir seemingly downplayed Pant’s heroics throughout a heated chat with a journalist.
When the journalist requested Gautam Gambhir to mirror on Rishabh Pant’s heroics as a giant optimistic from the primary Check, he interrupted and highlighted that three extra gamers hit tons.
“Speaking a few little bit of optimistic. How was it to witness that knock round Rishabh Pant and naturally being the vice captain, being one of many leaders on this group, how he has taken that duty, that function?” the journalist requested the India head coach.
“There are three extra centuries as properly. These are huge positives as properly. I might have appreciated it should you had mentioned that hundred from Yashasvi [Jaiswal], 100 from Shubman [Gill] on debut as captain, 100 from KL [Rahul] and two centuries from Rishabh. So 5 centuries in a Check match is a good begin to be sincere. And hopefully your query might have been higher,” Gambhir responded fiercely.
“However then once more, there are nice positives. We had a 5 [wickets] from Jasprit Bumrah [in the first innings] as properly,” he additional mentioned.
First Captain Gill calls out solely Pant for dropped probabilities. Now Coach Gambhir has no reward for somebody who scored 250+ and stored for 183 overs. Humorous how others efforts are praised, however solely Rishabh’s errors are highlighted pic.twitter.com/B7hC6RaSLU
— Sandy (@flamboypant) June 25, 2025
