Rishabh Pant will take our jobs eventually, he is doing our job: Dinesh Karthik

Former Indian keeper-batter Dinesh Karthik has stated that the Indian vice-captain Rishabh Pant has all the qualities to become a commentator once he retires from the game of cricket, courtesy of his stump mic antics during the Leeds Test.

Interestingly, Pant caught the attention of a lot of fans during the course of the opening Test against England as he kept on speaking on the stump mic during his batting in both innings and as a keeper.

Reflecting on his stump mic remarks, Karthik feels Pant has become the unofficial commentator already. Furthermore, he felt the vice-captain would eventually take up their commentary jobs after he bids adieu to the game.

"Viru paaji (Virender Sehwag) used to sing a lot while batting, but Pant is a commentator in himself. I think he will take our jobs eventually, he is doing our job. He is having fun when he is batting, he has a method as well. At times he is justifying what he is doing to his batting partner, because at times, just like us, the partner is thinking, 'Arre bhai, yeh kya kar raha hai' (Brother, what are you doing?). He's like trying to explain that all is well, I know what I am doing," Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

Furthermore, Karthik stated that Pant can walk into the Indian batting order as a pure batter. Notably, Pant smacked twin centuries in the Leeds Test, emerging as the first Indian batter to do so in the history of Test cricket in England.

"I think at the start, he took on a lot more risk than what he needed to, and was talking to himself, and after that, there was a different Rishabh Pant. He calmed himself down. He can walk into this Indian team easily as a pure batter, no one will raise an eyelid," he added.

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