Rishabh Pant is the captain in the Guwahati Test, he has more responsibilities but an irresponsible attitude was seen in his batting. When he came to the crease, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudarshan were out within 10 balls. After the continuous fall of wickets, it was expected from the captain that he would play carefully but he was out while trying to hit a six. Captain Pant scored 7 runs in 8 balls.

South Africa had scored 489 runs in the first innings. Senuran Muthusamy scored his first Test century, while bowler Marco Jansson also played an explosive inning of 93 runs. He hit 7 sixes in this innings. It was expected that Indian batsmen would also do well on this pitch, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal had given a good start, but after their dismissal, Team India fell apart. The worst wicket among these was that of captain Rishabh Pant, who was out after playing a bad shot.

The veteran called Rishabh Pant’s shot ‘brainfed’

Former South African fast bowler Dale Steyn described Rishabh Pant’s shot as ‘brainfed’. Although he did not write the name of Rishabh Pant, but after Pant’s dismissal he wrote on social media, “This is just a brainfed shot.” Let us tell you that brainfed means that shot in cricket. It was not played thoughtfully, rather it was played without thinking or by losing concentration. This is irresponsible or a bad shot from one side.

That’s just a brainfade shot

— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) November 24, 2025

Rishabh Pant hit a six on the second ball

Rishabh Pant had hit a six on his second ball. Even on the ball of Marco Jansson on which he was out, he went ahead and played a big shot. But the ball took the thick edge of the bat and went into the hands of the wicket keeper. The sound came clearly, so the umpire also had no problem in giving out. However, Pant surprised everyone by taking DRS also. Before Pant’s wicket, 3 wickets in the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal (58), Sai Sudarshan (15) and Dhruv Jurel (0) had fallen within 3 overs.

Just saw dismissal of Rishabh Pant seems wasn’t interested to bat today, I know it’s his style of gameplay but wasn’t the right situation #Cricket #indvssa

— Sagar Sirwani (@SagarSirwani03) November 24, 2025

Rishabh pant is the most irresponsible batsman in Indian team. #INDvsSA

— Anirudh dubey (@adnightowl95) November 24, 2025

Rishabh pant needs to understand the situation. Aggression doesn’t mean hitting every ball. You are the captain of India, what are you doing. #TestCricket

— Mahesh Joshi (@MaheshJ61136850) November 24, 2025

Rishabh Pant is the most irresponsible cricketer, always hiding his failures behind the excuse that ‘Yeh toh mera natural game hai’.

— Soumya here (@here_soumya) November 24, 2025

Indian fans also seemed angry with Rishabh Pant’s shot selection and the position in which he tried to play that shot. Fans criticized Pant’s shot on social media.