Not Kohli or Bumrah, Aussie skipper Pat Cummins wants to keep THIS India player quiet in upcoming Test series

Australia skipper Pat Cummins believes that keeping India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant quiet during the upcoming five-Test Border-Gavaskar series will be important. Pant, who recently made a comeback to Test cricket after a life-threatening accident in December 2022, was the key for India's win during their last two Test series Down Under.

"I think those guys, you know that they are going to be aggressive, take the game on. Like Rishabh Pant might play a reverse slap and it is an incredible shot and that's just part of who he is," Cummins said while talking on Star Sports.

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"He's someone that has a big influence in a couple of series and we have got to try and keep him quiet," added the Aussie skipper.

Pant has played seven Tests in Australia, scoring 624 runs in 12 innings at an average of 62.40 and a highest of 159 not out. He has also scored two fifties and a hundred.

Pant was the star on India's last tout of Australia where he scored 97 in Sydney to help India draw the Test before hitting 89 not out in last Test in Brisbane to help clinch India the Test and the series.

Overall, Pant has 2,419 Test runs to his name in 34 Tests at an average of almost 45 with six hundreds and 11 fifties. His six tons are the most for India by a wicketkeeper-batter alongside MS Dhoni.

Pant is also the only India wicketkeeper-batter to have a ton in Australia, England and South Africa.

In his most recent outing against Bangladesh in Chennai, Pant scored a hundred on the Test comeback to help India put in a commanding position.

“Definitely, it was emotional because coming back, I wanted to score in each and every match, which I couldn't do,” Pant said after the Chennai Test.