India's explosive wicket-keeper batsman, Rishabh Pant has many admirers, not just due to his batting and keeping but also for his entertainment quotient behind the stumps.
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, crowds have vanished from the stands making all the stump mic sounds clearly audible, thus Rishabh Pant's stump mic antics have become a known recurring affair. On Wednesday, the Delhi batsman was trying his best to get into the ear of Proteas batsman, van der Dussen.
Rishabh Pant and van der Dussen have been going at each other from the Day 1 of this Test match. Pant is known for chirping around the batsman to distract him and pull him into playing a bad shot. He did the same even in the Johannesburg Test. The only difference, this time around, was that Pant got a bit of taste of his own medicine.
Let's take a look at a series of banters between the two players in this Test match:
Van der Dussen first tried to trouble Pant standing at short-leg:
Pant also gave him back with continuous chat about van der Dussen's batting:
With van der Dussen present at the crease on Day 4, it looks like the banter would easily go on for another dat at least.
Meanwhile, India needs 8 wickets to win the Test match and also the series, while South Africa needs 122 more runs to win the second Test.