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At the moment, Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik are both very busy. Why can’t there be a club for keepers if there can be one for batters, fast bowlers and spinners?
While the rest of the Indian cricketer’s bat and bowl in the nets, DK and Pant are absorbed in their classrooms. They had just recently gone through the same motions for, like, an hour or so. However, they’ve had enough of it now. Both Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik are now quite busy. Why can’t there be a keepers’ club if there can be a batters’ club, a fast bowlers’ gang, or a spinners’ group? So, what, since Karthik’s return to the Indian team earlier this year, they have been competing for the same position.
Inviting you to the DK-Pant universe; do not forget, it is DK-Pant, not DK vs. Pant or DK and Pant; side by side, never apart and inseparable. The scenes were from Mohali before to the first game of the series against Australia, but they could just as easily have been from Nagpur, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Perth, Melbourne, or Adelaide while playing South Africa, Pakistan, England, or Afghanistan. Fans, analysts, and occasionally even the Indian team management frequently compete against DK and Pant because they are not just two extraordinarily talented cricketers.
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Consider the internet session that took place in Guwahati on Friday. It was a spontaneous internet session. With exception of DK, Pant, and Axar Patel, most India’s first-XI players chose to skip it to be recovered for the second T20I match against South Africa on Sunday. Shreyas Iyer, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, and Shahbaz Ahmed were also in the audience.
There is not much to glean from that 45-minute interval, but what followed should serve as another DK-Pant example. After finishing his hitting, Karthik almost halted Pants practice because he wanted to offer the left-hander some advice. As DK, the professor began to describe things with various hand signals, Pant listened as a submissive student in astonishment. DK might not have liked the way Pant handled the short balls in the net.
Both DK and Pant are aware that only one of them will play in most of the T-20 World Cup games scheduled to take place in Australia next month, most likely DK due to his finishing prowess, but it is reassuring to see how they have forged a strong friendship over the previous several months.
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