Apart from the Indian team management, former BCCI chief selector MSK Prasad’s heart is also swelling with pride seeing the dramatic turnaround in Rishabh Pant’s career.

With his performances in the last two international series (v Australia and England), the explosive wicketkeeper-batsman has finally lived up to his potential of being a match-winner for Team India. Pant has showed how fortunes can change dramatically with a few good performances. He arrived in Australia last November after a timid IPL. He didn’t start in the ODI series and was dropped from the playing XI in the T20I series—his most preferred format. Pant didn’t figure in the first day-night Test at Adelaide Oval which India lost by eight wickets. He was drafted in the XI for the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne, where he scored 29 and took four catches. From thereon, the pint-sized dynamite has not looked back.