Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant, who hit his seventh Test century in the first Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Test against England at Headingley, said he initially considered three celebrations but ultimately chose a familiar one — the front handspring. 

On Saturday, Pant hit an astonishing 134 and now holds the record for most Test hundreds as a wicketkeeper for India, going past the legendary MS Dhoni’s tally of six centuries. It was also Pant’s third Test hundred in England — which is a mammoth feat as no other visiting wicketkeeper has more than one Test century in the country.

“I had three celebrations in mind — of an OK sign on the eye [which footballer Dele Alli does], another was ‘let bat do the talking’. Then I thought, I will quietly do the one I know well. I have been doing it from my childhood [handspring].