Rishabh Pant was difficult to connect with, took time to build trust: Ex-India fielding coach R Sridhar's 'challenge'
Former India fielding coach R Sridhar has revealed that getting along with Rishabh Pant and finding a way to work with him proved to be a tough nut to crack initially. Pant made his India debut in a T20I against England in February of 2017, and a year later played his first Test against the same opposition at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, but as Sridhar, head coach Ravi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli were leading India's fielding revolution ahead at full speed, managing Pant was becoming a 'challenge'. Give them what they want, till the time they take what you give Pant has a ballistic start with India in 2018, as he notched up a century in just his third Test and followed it up with another ton a few months later in Australia during the 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. It took time, mentioned Sridhar, as he had to fall back on a famous coaching principle, and with the help of it, he and Pant were able to develop a mutual understanding of each other's thought processes.
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