Reesha Pant That’s the kind of character you need in sport and he showed his happy side again on Sunday when he surprised the legendary former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist Just before the start of the third day of competition pink ball test between india and australia adelaide.
Pant crept up behind Gilchrist, who was standing on the edge of the boundary, put his hand on Gilchrist’s eyes and found him dozing off.
“He blew my mind,” Gilchrist later said with a laugh, watching the incident captured on camera. “I don’t know who’s behind me.”
Interestingly, Pant’s game is in Gilchrist mode, attacking aggressively like the Australian in his heyday, moving quickly behind the stumps with the gloves on.
Former India coach and all-rounder Ravi Shastri took inspiration from it while watching the footage and commented: “This is a keeper’s league.”
Meanwhile, India suffered a 10-wicket defeat in the second Test in Adelaide as their remaining five wickets fell in the first match before Australia won comprehensively, The five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy ended in a 1-1 tie.
India posted 180 in the first innings and after Australia responded with 337 runs on the back of Travis Head’s aggressive batting of 140 off 141 balls, Lost the game with a 157-point lead.
India then ended up at 175 in the second innings, with Australia needing only 19 runs to win.
The third Test will begin in Brisbane on December 14.
