If England have, in the space of a month under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, invented a new way to play Test cricket, then Rishabh Pant here offered a reminder that it is not one for which they have a patent.
On the first day of a fifth Test taking place ten months on from the fourth, the India wicketkeeper scored a savage 146 to drag his side from 98-for-five to 338-for-seven at stumps and serve this new England a dose of their own medicine after a fortnight spent carting New Zealand around Headingley and Trent Bridge.
