by “Stupid, stupid, stupid,” echoed the words of the Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar. The first player to have reached 10,000 tests, he is known as “Sunny” to his friends, Mr. Gavaskar for you or me, and as half-god for the 1.5 billion people from India.
“He should not go to the Indian locker room,” said Gavaskar, live for ABC Radio in Australia. Its rage adjustment continuing as a co-recomor, the experienced Harsha Bhogle, itself a veteran of more than 30 years of broadcasting, looked and listened to with intimate disbelief.
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“He should go to other changing rooms,” concluded Gavaskar.
The player responsible for the explosion was Rishabh Pant. The Maverick’s Maverick, Pant is one of the few athletes in the world capable of arouing such a strength of emotion of the spectators. The cricket you dream of is its reality. When it works, it’s wonderful; But when it is not the case, it may seem sad.
Rishabh Pant’s unconventional technique has nevertheless proven to be effective in Headingley (Getty Images)
Gavaskar’s covering was the result of the latter. With the match in the scale, Pant had left for a scoop on the Australian Bowler player Scott Boland and had only managed to find the field player in the depths. Pant plays these blows while falling. And while the ball settled in the hands of Nathan Lyon, he ended up at the rear both figuratively and literally.
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The thing with Mavericks is just as strongly as emotion burns in you when it fails, also it shines when they succeed. And while the pants soaked in the celebrations which accompanied him to raise his second century of the match in Headingley, he looked towards the media balcony where a radiant Gavaskar was held under the applause, imploring the pants to recreate his celebration of the first day when he started a flip before reaching three figures. Pant recognized the request of the legend, smiled and agitated it.
“You hold it right there and admire and sometimes scratch your head,” said Pant’s striker, Kl Rahul, about his teammate after the game. Rahul, himself, did 137. “He is a unique player and you just leave them.”
Pant is well on the way to undoubtedly become the biggest window striker to live. An average of 44.44 talks about its consistency; The 82 six he did not touch in just 77 rounds talk about his chaos. In ten matches in England, he made four centuries, the joint of any window keeper in history with Alec Stewart and Matt Prior, two of the oldest of England’s counters. Ms. Dhoni, the most popular counter in India, has made six centuries of testing in total. The pants already have eight. Not to mention the seven times he was dismissed in the 90s.
Rishabh Pant celebrated its first round of the century with gymnastics (Pa Wire)
Pant’s achievements are all the more remarkable given the almost deadly car accident it suffered in 2022. Along a highway in the state of northern Uttarakhand, Pant’s car hit the central reserve after falling asleep. It was a miracle that he survived.
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“It is a remarkable return, honestly,” said the Grand Aussie Ricky Ponting, who is close to Pant after working together in the Indian Premier.
“If you can even see his leg now, and if you listen to the stories he tells what he confronted when he woke up on the side of the road after being thrown from his car 40 meters on the road at 200 km / h, I mean …”
Pant’s return to the test arena has taken a little less than two years, a step where, despite his legend in the shortest formats, he describes as the one “where I belong the most”.
Rishabh Pant was involved in an almost deadly car accident (AP)
Pant’s twins show how fast cricket and life are moving forward. India is a new look. Pant, himself, a newly appointed vice-captain. The question was what form would take India after losing the team’s father figures in Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin and Rohit Sharma in one go. In the space of three days, the answer is already clear: Rishabh.
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A greater responsibility brings the expectation of greater maturity. But this also gives the possibility of a greater mischief. After all, an 18 -year -old is authorized both in the voting stand and in the pub. Pant said before the series he knew the possibility of greater responsibility and confirmed that he would beat at number five. But this additional responsibility has not repressed its eccentricities.
“He has a method for his striker that none of us in this room understands,” continued Rahul, describing Pant. “But it works for him and he has obtained hundreds of people all over the world.”
There is little convention on how Rishabh Pant Batts (AFP via Getty Images)
Faced with the seam, it always flows on the counter and loads the customs. Faced with Spin, he wallops the ball for six at will and takes risks that others would not consider. While providing a soundtrack of comments to the world to listen to.
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“No two between these two,” joked Harry Brook to Pant and Kl Rahul, by deducting the duo, he does not want to run as much against the rotation of Shoaib Bashir.
“If he launches a draw, not two,” said Pant’s response with one eye on Brook and the other on the stand in which he planned to hit the ball.
Pant spent 26 bullets in the 90s. An unusual nervous show, but not surprising for a player who was dismissed in ten series of a century on seven times. Pant’s blasé attitude towards the “nervous 90s” is his personality in a word. He is not there for personal distinctions. But his elbows and his Nurdles as the three figures were approaching suggested that it was not a habit that he wanted to transform into a tradition.
The coherence of Rishabh Pant denies his (Pa Wire)
A out-of-the-game cut spoke the century and saw the entire Headingley get up. Pant is a rare player who entertains those who are new in sport, and who attributes those who are old. In Headingley this afternoon, a player who will descend into history, has made his own today.
