Rishabh Pant’s audacity to reverse sweep one of the best fast bowlers in the world, his confidence in completing a century with two big hits after entering the 90s may give an impression of a complex individual who has his own unique methods of dealing with even the most difficult of situations but the reality is slightly different. While the second part about having his own way holds true, complexity is the last thing that one would associate Rishabh Pant with. He has one of the simplest of approaches to dealing with fast bowlers and also life. Both of those qualities came to the fore during Day 1 of India vs England fifth Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Pant smashed a record-breaking 146 off 111 balls to give England a taste of their own medicine and then came up with the simplest of answers in the press conference.
After the close of play, Pant was asked by an English journalist whether he swapped positions with Shreyas Iyer and walked out to bat at number five to which Pant gave a direct one line – can be treated as one word too – answer.
Were you originally coming in at six and did you swap positions with Shreyas Iyer?
To which Pant replied ‘No’.
