DEREK PRINGLE

Rishabh Pant is one of the most exciting batting talents in Indian cricket and was instrumental in his team’s famous series win over Australia seven months ago. But against England this summer he has become a walking wicket, his no-compromise brand of batting as yet unable to cope with the moving ball you see plenty of in English conditions.It has not been pretty either. A total of 87 runs from five innings is a catastrophe for one so talented, though not as much as his dismissals which have verged from the ugly –a wild smear in the first innings at the...