Rishabh Pant’s handspring celebration — as a lot as his 178-ball 134 — was one of many highlights of Saturday’s motion within the Headingley Check at Leeds. After the wicketkeeper-batter scored his seventh Check ton on the way in which to serving to India rating 471 towards England within the first innings, he celebrated by doing a really acrobatic handspring {that a} gymnast could be pleased with. Former India cricketers like Ravi Shastri, Dinesh Karthik, and Cheteshwar Pujara have been left awestruck by the acrobatic celebration from Pant.
Former India coach Ravi Shastri’s verdict on the celebration was easy.
“Nothing improper in that. That’s him. Let him be. You already know, he’s completely different. At a really younger age, he did plenty of gymnastics,” stated the previous India cricketer and coach, who now sits within the commentary sales space, whereas speaking to BCCI’s social media crew. He then joked: “Even when I might need tried it (the handspring), I feel I might need… (however) it will have been to enter the pool.”
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India cricketer Pujara added: “Rishabh being Rishabh, he does one thing distinctive. He does it very well. I feel it was distinctive. Nobody anticipated him to try this. I’ve by no means tried it. I’ll want plenty of follow as a result of that’s one thing for those who haven’t tried, you may’t do it.”
India’s Rishabh Pant does a handspring to have a good time after scoring a century vs England.(AP)
Karthik, in the meantime, was astounded by each of Pant’s feats on Day 2 of the primary India vs England Check, his swashbuckling century and the flamboyant celebration.
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“Neither might I do the somersault handspring like him, nor can I bat like him,” stated Karthik, a former India wicketkeeper-batter himself. “I feel on each fronts (holding and batting) he has exceeded expectations. It’s fairly an effort to try this, really. And he does it persistently.”
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Karthik then added: “Once I was very younger, my mother and father did make me take part in gymnastics and I did attempt to I used to be an utter failure at that. So, let’s simply go away it there as a result of he (Pant) is doing it a lot nicer when he celebrates it.”