WATCH: Pant sledges Cummins from behind the stumps

Dixit Bhargav | 10/12/2018
Pant sledges Cummins

Pant sledges Cummins: The Indian wicket-keeper was both seen and heard hurling words at the Australian fast bowler.

During the fifth day of the first Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Adelaide, India wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant was both seen and heard hurling words at Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins.

It all happened during the 76th over of the Australian innings when India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was bowling to Cummins. The 21-year old cricketer seemed to have made it a point to constantly make his presence feel in the batsman’s ears.

“Let’s see some sixes, Come on Patty!,” Pant was heard as saying to Cummins before the start of the over. With each passing delivery came a new comment from the wicket-keeper.

“Not easy to play here, show some sixes,” he was heard on the stump mic after the second ball. “Come on, it’s not easy. Not easy to survive,” he added. With Ashwin bowling the fourth delivery of the over as short and wide and Cummins letting it go, Pant said, “Not putting away bad balls here.”

It is not the first time that Pant has passed cheeky comments on an opposition batsman. In the first innings of the match, he was heard saying “Everyone is not Pujra here guys” when Australia top-order batsman Usman Khawaja was in the middle.

Watching an Indian wicket-keeper constantly in the ears of the batsman isn’t a regular sight. With Pant doing it time and again, it has it in it to distract the batsmen. However, he should always take into consideration to ‘not cross the line‘.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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