IND vs ENG: 'Knee in a mess...' - Former India coach recalls Pant's car accident

Former India caput manager Ravi Shastri praised Rishabh Pant's singular innings of 134 runs disconnected 178 balls against England successful the opening Test astatine Leeds connected June 22. Pant's innings, featuring 12 fours and six sixes, included unconventional shots and a celebratory somersault aft reaching his century.The 27-year-old wicketkeeper-batter achieved his seventh Test century, marking his 2nd since recovering from a terrible car clang successful precocious 2022.Pant showcased his unsocial batting style, including a 'falling paddle' changeable and reached his period with a one-handed six implicit mid-wicket disconnected spinner Shoaib Bashir.

"Outrageous. He plays the numbers crippled beautifully, plays the mode helium wants. He volition artifact for a spot and past displacement gears," Shastri said connected Sky Sports."He has his ain machine and lone helium knows however it works. That's his USP. That's what puts bowlers nether unit and makes him container office, a existent entertainer and a lucifer winner," Shastri elaborated astir Pant's approach.Shastri reflected connected Pant's betterment from the accident, explaining the value of his celebration. "That's wherefore determination was that celebration. Thanking the antheral upstairs for giving him the opportunity."

"I deliberation his betterment from that mishap had a batch to bash with the framework of his assemblage and being mid-20s. When I saw him successful hospital, it wasn't a beauteous sight. Knee successful a mess, scars each implicit the face, bruises each implicit the body," Shastri added.Former Surrey and Sussex batter Ian Ward, portion commentating for Sky Sports, praised Pant's performance. "This fella is container office. One of the large entertainers and 1 of the champion 100 celebrations I person seen.

He's a character, this boy."

The innings besides impressed Indian batting fable Sunil Gavaskar, who had antecedently criticized Pant's changeable enactment during the Australia series. After witnessing Pant's show successful Leeds, Gavaskar repeatedly said "superb, superb, superb."The unorthodox batter's show astatine Headingley demonstrated his betterment and instrumentality to form, entertaining the assemblage with his distinctive batting benignant and memorable celebration.