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\nFormer Australia skipper Ricky Ponting praised young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, so much so that he called him \u201canother\u201d Adam Gilchrist after the Indian\u2019s blistering 159 in the fourth Test.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a real talent and an incredibly good ball striker. He has got a really good game sense as well. I have been lucky enough to coach him at Delhi ,\u201d said Ponting, who had worked with the Indian during his stint with Delhi franchise at the Indian Premier League.\u201cHe has got to do a bit of work on his keeping and he will also become a better batsman.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old also surpassed Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s 13-year-old record of highest individual Test score by an Indian wicketkeeper. The former India skipper had scored 148 runs against Pakistan in 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk about MS Dhoni all the time and his impact on Indian cricket. He played a lot of Tests for India but made only six Test hundreds. This kid will make a lot more Test hundreds than that,\u201d Ponting said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk about him in the commentary box and he is sort of like another Adam Gilchrist,\u201d Gilchrist, the legendary Australian wicket-keeper batsman, has played 96 Tests, scoring 5,570 runs at an average of 47.6. He also represented his country in 287 ODIs, amassing 9,619 runs at 35.89.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Pant became the only Indian wicketkeeper to score a century on Australian soil when he smashed an unbeaten 159 and shared a 204-run stand with Ravindra Jadeja, as the visitors declared at 622 runs for seven.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has already scored his second Test ton and a couple of 90s to go with it. Look he is someone who could play a lot of Test cricket for India across formats. Pant is only 21 and is already into his ninth Test.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe probably all expected him to bat aggressively from ball one but he showed he can build an innings and then by the end of it allowed himself to play with all the freedom that we know he\u2019s got.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a cricketer that is at the start of his journey so he\u2019ll learn these particular parts of the game and he\u2019ll learn that there\u2019s always more time than what you think, but he\u2019s got a great foundation to be a successful Test cricketer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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