Let Rishabh Pant Play His 50-60 Tests First Before We Start Making Comparisons To Adam Gilchrist – Ricky Ponting
Published - 11 Feb 2022, 03:42 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 01:04 AM
Legendary Australian captain Ricky Ponting while talking about the comparison between young Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant and legendary Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist, said that before making Pant’s comparison to one of the all-time great wicket-keeper batters let him play 50-60 Test games.
Speaking on The ICC Review, Ricky Ponting, who has shared dressing rooms with both Pant and Gilchrist, said that both the wicket-keepers are a little bit the same. He said:
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“Yeah, [they are] little bit the same, I know Rishabh’s really burst onto the scene, but let’s just let him play his 50-60 Test matches first before we start making comparisons to one of the all-time great wicket-keeper batters.”
Pointing was quick to point out the difference between the personalities of the two wicket-keepers. He said:
“But if you think about their personalities – Rishabh is a lot more outward, a lot louder, a lot noisier and ultra-competitive. Gilly was ultra-competitive as well, but a lot quieter and reserved, until he got his bat in his hand and then he became exactly the same as Rishabh.”
You couldn’t try and tell Gilchrist how to play – Ricky Ponting
Former Australian skipper said that telling Gilchrist how to play was an impossible thing to do. He also recalled a humorous incident involving Gilchrist to show his similarities with Pant. He elaborated:
“You couldn’t try and tell him [Gilchrist] how to play, I remember having a conversation with him late in a Test match at the SCG against Pakistan. He and I were batting, so we must have been four or five down, maybe just three overs left in the day, of which Danish Kaneria had to bowl two of them – and he was bowling around the wicket to Gilly into the big footmarks with a long-on and deep mid-wicket.”
“So I went down to him and said, ‘Look, let’s just get through tonight, we have a beautiful batting day tomorrow, this wicket’s going to be good. There’s a new ball around the corner, so just get through’.
“Next ball, he ran down the wicket, it landed in the footmark and he hit it over long-on’s head for six, and I thought, ‘Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s no good me talking to him because he is not listening’. But he got through the night, I don’t know how he did, but he got through those few overs and went in and cashed in the next day.”
Meanwhile, Pointing further added that Pant’s batting approach is exactly the same as Gilchrist. He stated:
“Rishabh will be exactly the same. If you look at Rishabh – I am not sure how many Test hundreds he’s got – but he has a few 90s in there. And he’s actually got out trying to bring up his hundred with a six. That’s the good and the bad, right?”
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