India are in a dominating position in the second Test against England. After setting up a target of 608 runs, the visitors dismissed three batters of the rival team on Day 4. Shubman Gill-led unit needs seven wickets on the final day to level the series 1-1. Although Shubman scored 161 runs in his team’s second innings, it was Rishabh Pant who stole the show with his outrageous hitting.

The bat slipped out of his hands on a couple of occasions, with some of the English players watching the willow while others looking for the ball. In between, he hit 8 fours and 3 sixes to accumulate 65 runs off 58 balls.

He didn’t allow the English bowlers to settle down, and the Indian team added runs at a brisk pace. Sunil Gavaskar hailed the 27-year-old Indian wicket-keeper for his batting.

“He is a box office and stops people from doing their work. They know something would happen when Pant is in the middle. He is a pure entertainer and doesn’t fear getting out,” Sunil Gavaskar said.

“Even when he was dismmissed, Gill didn’t let the scoring tempo to go down. You feel for each other,” he added.

The southpaw hit two consecutive hundreds in the first Test in Leeds, but his effort went in vain as the sub-continent nation lost the game by 5 wickets.