"Thoda ECG ki tarah hai" - Former India batter's interesting take on Rishabh Pant's batting in ENG vs IND 2025 1st Test

Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar came up with an interesting take on Rishabh Pant's batting in the ongoing first Test between England and India. The game is being played at Headingley, Leeds.

As India are batting in their second innings on the fourth day, Rishabh Pant walked to the crease after the dismissal of skipper Shubman Gill. Facing just his second delivery, Pant took to the attack to Chris Woakes, coming down the track and edging the ball for a lucky boundary in the 26th over.

However, the wicketkeeper-batter then batted sensibly, playing dot balls and picking up singles here and there. Facing Woakes again in the 32nd over, Rishabh Pant charged down the track once again, smashing the ball straight past the bowler for a cracking boundary.

Sanjay Manjrekar, who was on air at the time, compared Pant's batting to an ECG graph that goes up and down.

"Inka jo batting ka graph hai na thoda ECG ki tarah hai. Dot ball dot ball ek flat line hoti hai aur suddenly ek spike aata hai (His batting graph is a little bit like an ECG. Dot ball dot ball there is a flat line and then suddenly there is a spike)," he said.

At the time of writing, Pant is batting on 20 off 37 balls, having hit three boundaries in his knock so far.

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Rishabh Pant slammed a magnificent century in the first innings

Rishabh Pant has displayed exceptional form with the bat in this Test already. The left-hander impressed in the first innings, where he scored a magnificent century and played an important knock in the context of the game.

Walking out to bat at number five, Pant scored 134 runs off 178 balls, smashing 12 fours and six maximums in his innings with a strike-rate of 75.28. His century, along with tons from Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill, helped India post a total of 471 in the first innings.

With the hundred, Pant also broke MS Dhoni's record for the most centuries by an Indian wicketkeeper-batter in Test cricket. Pant was on par with Dhoni having scored six hundreds each. With the first-innings ton, he went past Dhoni and now has seven Test hundreds to his name.