Former India head coach Greg Chappell lavished praise on India’s wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant following his twin centuries (134 and 118) in the Leeds Test recently.

Chappell compared Pant to former Australia wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist. “Rishabh reminds me very much of Adam Gilchrist. He’s just a different sort of player. It can make a huge difference to a team to have a wicketkeeper who can bat at that level and to score runs quickly. The beauty is Rishabh gets runs at a very fast rate which gives you time to win cricket matches. Some of the shots he played weren’t in the MCC playing manual,” said Chappell, while interacting via videoconferencing at the launch of str8bat at the Cricket Club of India on Wednesday.