WATCH: Pant’s funny sledge regarding Pujara

Pant’s funny sledge regarding Pujara: The Indian wicket-keeper was seen passing a cheeky remark to Australian batsmen on the second day.

During the second day of the first Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Adelaide, India wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant accumulated a lot of attention because of his verbals behind the wickets.

While Pant didn’t get involve in an argument with any opposition cricketer, it was his teasing-cum-funny words which brought him into the limelight. It was evident that Pant’s knack of being chirpy was coming from India captain India Virat Kohli’s ‘lines won’t be crossed‘ school of banter.

Pant’s comments saw him accumulating a plethora of eyeballs and opinions towards him across various social media platforms yesterday. While some found his cheeky remarks as funny, the other were categorising him as a potential candidate for one of the most irritating wicket-keepers ever.

It all happened after when Kohli introduced spin in the form of Ravichandran Ashwin in the 12th over of the Australian innings. It was during this spell that Pant started to make a mark with his words. Apart from being funny, the comment ‘Everyone is not Pujara here guys, come on guys’ also spoke indirectly about Australia’s batting line-up.

Having scored 25 (38) with the help of two fours and a six in India’s first innings, Pant let his team down with the bat in hand. However, he stood tall on the expectations behind the wickets.

Pant grabbed as many as six catches in the first innings, equaling former India captain and current wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s record of most catches by an Indian wicket-keeper in one innings of a Test match.

Watch the full video of Pant’s banter below:

everyone’s not pujara_edit_0 from ashwin Ravi on Vimeo.

Read some of the latest Twitter reactions on Pant below:

6 – most catches by an Indian keeper in a Test inns: MS Dhoni at Wellington 2009 and Rishabh Pant today!#AusvInd#AusvsInd

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) December 8, 2018

#AUSvIND @gradecricketer Pujara: We’re 5 for 110. Time to to put your head down, runs will come after tea. Pant: pic.twitter.com/HUyeGC5xgh

— Damian Coffey (@damiancoffey) December 6, 2018

Rishabh Pant equals MS Dhoni’s record of 6 catches, most by an Indian in an innings in Test cricket. #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/ze6HmbH0av

— Cricket24.com (@Cricket24_COM) December 8, 2018

Unlike yellow cement gang, no one is making a hue and cry about Rishabh Pant taking 6 catches.

And the best part is this so called TRUE CRICKET FANS is tweeting fixing podu tweets since last 3 days but doesn’t have time to tweet about ongoing test series pic.twitter.com/ldftHuwRjU

— Abhishek Agarwal (@abhishek2526) December 8, 2018

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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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