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 best way to serving to India rating 471 towards England within the first innings, he celebrated by doing a really acrobatic handspring {that a} gymnast can be happy with. Former India cricketers like Ravi Shastri, Dinesh Karthik, and Cheteshwar Pujara had been left awestruck by the acrobatic celebration from Pant.
Former India coach Ravi Shastri’s verdict on the celebration was easy.
“Nothing flawed 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,” mentioned the previous India cricketer and coach, who now sits within the commentary sales space, whereas speaking to BCCI’s social media workforce. He then joked: “Even when I might need tried it (the handspring), I believe I might need… (however) it might 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 rather well. I believe it was distinctive. Nobody anticipated him to try this. I’ve by no means tried it. I’ll want plenty of apply as a result of that’s one thing if you happen to haven’t tried, you possibly can’t do it.”
India’s Rishabh Pant does a handspring to have fun 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,” mentioned Karthik, a former India wicketkeeper-batter himself. “I believe on each fronts (preserving and batting) he has exceeded expectations. It’s fairly an effort to try this, really. And he does it constantly.”
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Karthik then added: “Once I was very younger, my dad and mom did make me take part in gymnastics and I did try to I used to be an utter failure at that. So, let’s simply depart it there as a result of he (Pant) is doing it a lot nicer when he celebrates it.”