Team India keeper-batter Rishabh Pant continued with his on-field stump-mic antics on day five of the opening Test against England at the Headingley in Leeds. The left-handed batter was heard lauding Ravindra Jadeja for fielding off his own bowling as Star Sports released a video of Pant's conversation caught by the stump mic.
The moment occurred in the first session of the play as Ben Duckett drove a ball down the ground and Jadeja chased the ball all the way down the ground. After the veteran all-rounder pulled the ball back in, Pant said:
"Mera hee ball, mera hee umpire, mera hee field. Aur fielding bhi main hee karunga. Jaddu bhai kya baat hai." (My ball, my umpire, my fielding. Even I'll do the fielding. Nice Jaddu bhai.)
Team India hit back with flurry of wickets after rain-enforced interruption
Meanwhile, the tourists ended the first session wicketless as England finished with 117/0, bringing down the required runs to 254. When the rain break occurred, the home side were 181-0.
However, Prasidh Krishna made inroads after the players returned, dismissing Zak Crawley for 65 and Ollie Pope for 8, helping them storm back into the contest. Shardul Thakur, who had a belated introduction to the attack, got back-to-back wickets, dismissing Ben Duckett for 149 and Harry Brook for a first-ball duck.
England had already chased down a 370+ total against India before and will take confidence from that.
