Rishabh Pant may not have smashed it with the bat in the Duleep Trophy 2024, but boy, did he make up for it with his acrobatics behind the stumps! While the selectors might have been sweating over his wicketkeeping skills in red-ball cricket, Pant had other ideas—literally. Playing his first red-ball game in 21 months, he was as sharp as a ninja behind the stumps, making sure the selectors had no more sleepless nights.But wait, it wasn’t just his keeping that grabbed attention. Pant practically turned into a field general!
Abhimanyu Easwaran may have had the “captain” badge, but Pant was out there giving the pep talks, rallying the troops like a motivational speaker after a morning coffee overdose.He even schooled Navdeep Saini on seam positions, pointing to the ball like a psychic predicting the future. And guess what? Saini bowled a cross-seam on the last ball, and poor Dhruv Jurel couldn’t even get his bat down before the ball smacked his pads. Pant is clearly more than just a keeper—he’s the guy with the plan, and if you’re not listening, well, good luck!