VIDEO | Rishabh Pant takes time off sledging to help Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja plan Tim Paine dismissal

MS Dhoni’s cult as a finisher extraordinaire and an intelligent skipper has been a part of Indian cricketing lore and it will some time for any wicket-keeper to be like him and help the skipper out with the decisions. However, Rishabh Pant seems like a quick learner of the things as he decided to help his captain out with the field placements, which was wonderfully captured by the stump mic.

Pant was observing Jadeja from a close distance and trying to take stock of what his arm-balls were doing from the very beginning of the day. While Jadeja found the rough outside off to dismiss Khawaja, when the batsman pressed forward to defend and the ball, Pant had a word or two to say about the Indian spinner. Then seeing the left-arm spinner only trying to bowl on the rough, which was itself an attacking option, Pant became India’s tactical captain.

He asked Virat Kohli to send one fielder close and told him Jadeja had to target one area against Tim Paine, and for the reason why he shouldn’t tinker the field. Kohli understood the logic behind it and nodded his head in approval, before allowing the fielder to get closer. 

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