The crowd was waiting, and even cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar kept pushing Rishabh Pant on-air to do it. But the Indian vice-captain stood firm, waved to the crowd, and smiled, opting for a new gesture pointing toward his eye instead of a somersault celebration.
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“Someone from the team told him not to do the somersault; otherwise, he was ready with it,” a source revealed to CricBlogger. The source noted that it would have only been Gambhir who could do that. He added, “Who else would dare?”
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Even when Gavaskar urged the left-handed batter live from the commentary box to go ahead with the flip, Pant was seen mouthing, “Not now, later.” Interestingly, Gambhir isn’t the only one who had concerns. Kapil Dev, the legendary 1983 World Cup-winning captain, had also criticized the Indian vice-captain’s somersault celebration.
The legendary Indian all-rounder believed that the celebrations should never come at the cost of injury and had urged Pant to be more careful, as any wrong move could have cost him and India dearly, given how he recovered from multiple surgeries after the accident.
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Vaughan had said on-air, “Can you explain what that celebration is? Do you know what that is? I was waiting for that flip as well. I was rather disappointed on commentary when he didn't produce a double flip. Knowing Rishabh, he's always going to try to improve his celebrations, but I guess your celebration is probably taking this bit.”
Now, Pant will be next seen in action in Birmingham, where India and England will lock horns against each other in the second Test of the five-match Test series.
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