India, June 19 -- "Finally," he smiled, cheekily. "It feels good but at the same time, it's a responsibility also to share your knowledge, your experience."

Being cheeky is something that comes naturally to Rishabh Pant. Cheeky good, that is. He is a constant stream of chatter from behind the stumps, and he will often make you laugh, but he is never malicious or offensive. But more than anywhere else, his cheekiness manifests itself in his batting. Sometime to irate 'Stupid, stupid, stupid' admonishments of the kind Sunil Gavaskar doled out in Melbourne last December, but also with spectacular outcomes.

Pant is on his third full tour of England. It was here that, in August 2018, he made his Test debut midway through a five-match series....