Rishabh Pant Cannot Stop Laughing As He Cooks Pizza: 'Only Thing I Can Do With Broken Foot...'
Rishabh Pant is doing the only thing he can do with a broken foot: Cook a pizza and he seems to be loving it.
Rishabh Pant's England tour may have ended prematurely on a painful note but the India wicketkeeper-batter has found a fun way to pass time while recovering from foot injury he sustained while batting in the 4th Test at Old Trafford. Pant broke his foot after missing a reverse sweep off Chris Woakes with the ball landing on his left boot.
The injury has pushed him into the sidelines for at least six weeks.
The 27-year-old star has shared a clip on his social media handles showing how he's spending the time away from cricket. And in his own words, it's the 'only thing" that he 'can do with a broken foot".
'Today I'm going to show you how to make pizza. Guys, bear with me. I think I'm gonna make vegetarian pizza. I love vegetarian. Yeah, with the truffle. I think two more pizzas and I'll be sorted," Pizza tells the viewers as he kneads and arranges toppings in a kitchen under the supervision of a chef.
'It's hot in here boys!" he quips. 'The pizza is getting ready and I'm going to wait for it. Very hot in here, boys and girls."
While the pizza is getting ready, Pant realises how his mother will react to him cooking the Italian dish.
'That's the only thing I can do with broken foot right now. Baking pizza. Mother must be thinking ' Ghar pe to kuch banaya nahi hai, yaha pizza bana raha hai (Hasn't cooked anything at home and here he's cooking pizza!)," he says.
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