Rishabh Pant pays back Sunil Gavaskar’s ’stupid’ remark with 61 in Sydney, registers fastest fifty by an Indian in Oz

Rishabh Pant paid back Sunil Gavaskar’s ‘stupid, stupid, stupid’ remark in Melbourne with a 33-ball 61 in the fifth Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday. Unhappy with Pant’s shot selection on Day 3 of the fourth Test in Melbourne, Gavaskar minced no words for the India wicketkeeper, which also gave the hosts their first wicket on that day. 

In Sydney, Pant emerged in a new avatar as he tore into the Australian bowling with a flurry of boundaries and sixes against the likes of Scott Boland, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Beau Webster.