Rishabh Pant won many hearts with his picture ‘babysitting’ Aussie skipper Tim Paine’s kids and the Indian keeper is now again winning the Internet with a new video of him going viral.
In this one, Pant is seen being introduced to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as the Indian and Australian teams visited his residence, Kirribilli House, on New Years Day. The PM immediately recognises the young cricketer and shakes his hand, also adding, ‘Aah yes, you sledges right? You are very welcome. We like competitive game.’
His wife then also greets Pant and says, ‘So lovely to have you here.’
Pant was involved in some verbal exchanges between deliveries during the Boxing Day Test, with Paine, who is also Australia’s keeper.
Paine at one stage raised Pant's omission from India's limited-overs squad, suggested his younger rival would have enough spare time as a result on his "holiday" to babysit his children and join one of the franchises in Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 league.
"You can come over for dinner. Do you babysit? I'll take my wife to the movies, you can look after the kids?" Paine was heard to say on the TV broadcast.
Pant responded by questioning Paine's appointment as Australia's "temporary captain" in the aftermath of a ball-tampering scandal in March that led to 12-month bans for then Australia captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner.
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