'He’ll hit you for a six, he will babysit your kids': Bharat Army comes up with a chant for centurion and 'Babysitter' Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant had been in news for his chatter behind the stumps in India vs Australia series. On Day 2 of the fourth Test, he let his bat do the talking for a change. He hit an unbeaten 159 off 189 balls to silence the critics who had begun to question his place in the team after he failed to impress in the earlier Tests. Pant, who is now very famous in Australia for his banter with Australian captain Tim Paine, has also got a chant for himself, composed and written by Bharat Army, a group of die-hard Indian cricket fans who travel everywhere the team goes and plays. After Pant scored his maiden hundred in Australia, Bharat Army came up with a chant for the Delhi boy. The chant goes like, “We’ve got Pant, Rishabh Pant; I just don’t think you’ll understand; He’ll hit you for a six; He’ll babysit your kids; We’ve got Rishabh Pant.”

The banter between Pant and Paine has caught everyone’s attention. During the third Test, Paine asked the 21-year-old Indian wicketkeeper whether he would like to babysit his kids after being dropped from the one-day side. “Do you babysit? I’ll take my wife to the movies one night and you can babysit,” Paine went about with the banter. Pant returned the favour to Paine when he came in to bat, by asking the short-leg fielder whether he had ever heard of a temporary captain, a cheeky reference to the current Australian captain who had replaced Steve Smith after the ball-tampering scandal in March. The banter took a sweet turn when Paine’s wife clicked a picture  of Pant with one of their kids in the Indian wicket-keepers arms at a small gathering of the two teams at Australian PM’s house. Pant’s Sydney knock and the on-going banter inspired the Bharat Army to come up with the above chant. It somehow gave a Barmy Army feel at the Sydney Cricket Ground.