Rishabh Pant's short but eventful career has been littered with near-misses and the biggest of them of all has to be a knock-out punch delivered by the selection committee that preferred Dinesh Karthik over him in the England bound World Cup squad.

Before the 2017 Champions Trophy in England, Pant was kept on stand-by and once again according MSK Prasad, Pant was "almost there".