Ricky Ponting feels Rishabh Pant’s aggressive manner on the discipline is purely like how the expansive Adam Gilchrist played the recreation but comparisons between the two can handiest be made after the Indian plays a minimum of 50-60 Assessments.
The 24-year-ancient Pant has generally been when in contrast to Gilchrist, both southpaws, due to the his strikingly identical batting to the Australia story.
“Yeah, [they are] barely of bit the same. I do know Rishabh’s in actuality burst onto the scene, but let’s true let him play his 50-60 Test fits first sooner than we launch making comparisons to belief to be one of many all-time expansive wicket-keeper batters, Ricky Ponting said on ‘The ICC Review’.
Gilchrist has played 96 Assessments, scoring 5570 runs at an average of 47.6. He also represented his country in 287 ODIs, gathering 9619 runs at 35.89. While Pant has represented India in 28 Assessments, 23 ODIs and 41 T20Is.
Ponting extra added, “Nonetheless whenever you imagine about their personalities, Rishabh Pant is some distance extra outward, lots louder, lots noisier and ultra-competitive. Gilly became as soon as ultra-competitive as properly, but lots quieter and reserved, except he bought his bat in his hand and then he became exactly similar to Rishabh.”
While Ponting played with and captained Gilchrist, he has also labored intently with Pant, who he coached right through his time within the Delhi Capitals (DC).
The World Cup-winning skipper recalled an memoir from his taking part in days with Gilchrist.
“It is probably you’ll perchance well no longer try and describe him [Gilchrist] play. I be conscious having a dialog with him gradual in a Test match on the SCG against Pakistan,” recalled Ponting.
He continued, “He and I were batting, so we will must relish been four or 5 down, seemingly true three overs left within the day, of which Danish Kaneria needed to bowl two of them – and he became as soon as bowling round the wicket to Gilly into the mighty footmarks with a long-on and deep mid-wicket.”
“So I went down to him and said, ‘Gape, let’s true receive through tonight, we now relish an ideal batting day the next day, this wicket’s going to be upright. There is a unique ball round the nook, so true receive through’. Next ball, he ran down the wicket, it landed within the footmark and he hit it over long-on’s head for six, and I believed, ‘Effectively, it doesn’t topic. It is no upright me talking to him because he’s no longer listening’,” said Ponting.
Ponting feels Pant, who has a penchant for going after bowlers no topic the teach, will flip out the same skill.
“Rishabh will seemingly be exactly the same. Ought to you search at Rishabh I’m no longer obvious what number of Test a total bunch he’s bought ? but he has a few 90s in there. And he’s in actuality bought out trying to lift up his hundred with a six. That’s the upright and the nasty, true??” concluded the worn Aussie skipper.
