Sunil Gavaskar Rips Into ‘Stupid’ Rishabh Pant For Letting Down India. Video Viral. Watch

Sunil Gavaskar Rips Into ‘Stupid’ Rishabh Pant For Letting Down India. Video Viral. Watch


India vs Australia: Rishabh Pant and Sunil Gavaskar© BCCI/Twitter




Much was anticipated of Rishabh Pant, with India in dire straits on the third day of the fourth Test, however the India star delivered too little. It was the identical careless previous means of dismissal, one thing which made Gavaskar begin a rant that has gone viral. The third day’s MCG monitor is maybe the most effective to bat on with inexperienced grass making means for a brownish tinge and previous a Kookaburra hardly doing something. Had Pant caught round, there was no means he would not have scored huge. With Ravindra Jadeja (17 off 51 balls) for firm, Pant did begin properly and received a number of boundaries however then the urge to play the falling lap pull over long-leg caused his dismissal.

When Pant tried it for the primary break day Scott Boland, who got here around the wicket, he was hit within the naval space and gave the impression to be in ache. He received up however did not realise that Pat Cummins had positioned one fielder at deep fine-leg and one at deep third man for each the traditional and reverse lap shot.

Without studying his classes or caring about success proportion, Pant tried the same shot however the additional bounce meant that the highest edge flew to 3rd man for a regulation catch.

“Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! You’ve received two fielder there and you continue to go for that. You’ve missed the earlier shot and look the place you’ve got been caught. You’ve caught at deep third man. That is throwing away your wicket. Not within the scenario that India was. You have to grasp the scenario as properly. You can’t say that’s your pure sport. I’m sorry that isn’t your pure sport. That is a silly shot. That is letting your crew down badly. He shouldn’t be stepping into that (Indian) dressing room, he must be going into the opposite dressing room,” Gavaskar stated on ABC Sport.

However, an amazing half-century by Nitish Kumar Reddy and ready help by Washington Sundar helped India go previous the rating of 300 towards Australia.

With PTI inputs

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