India, Nov. 11 -- Out of sight can often quickly morph to out of mind. Rishabh Pant, however, commands a body of work so extensive and proven that messing with it wouldn't be advisable.

What about Dhruv Jurel though? A recurring theme of his career has been that of an understudy who is picked when Pant is unavailable. But even that arrangement has to give way to something more permanent if the performance warrants it. And Jurel is nearly there.

Over the years, the boundaries between a batter and a wicket-keeper batter have begun to overlap, pushing out the specialist keeping genre in favour of a slightly compromised version that may drop a few catches but is more likely to compensate with batting consistency.

Pant epitomised that cultu...