Pant's keeping has been under constant scrutiny and the stumper dropped Australia's debutant opener Will Pucovski twice on the rain-hit opening day of the third test to renew that debate. Saha kept wickets in the first test in Adelaide but Pant replaced him in Melbourne and has retained his place in Sydney. "It's part of the game, we all drop catches," Siraj said. Former India stumper Parthiv Patel detected a flaw in Pant's technique against spinners. "He was trying to catch with hard hands," Patel, who played 25 tests and 38 ODIs between 2002-2018, told Cricbuzz website.

Source: bd News24 January 07, 2021 15:11 UTC