India's Rishabh Pant accomplished a unique milestone, becoming the second wicketkeeper-batter in cricket history to score hundreds in both innings of the first Test match against England at Headingley.  

After reaching his second century, the 27-year-old made headlines when he refused Sunil Gavaskar's request for a somersault celebration, choosing instead to make a novel gesture that pointed to his eye.

In the last innings, India set a difficult target of 371 runs for England thanks to Pant's outstanding performance and KL Rahul's century. Together, they formed an important 195-run partnership for the fourth wicket, which helped India reach 364 in the second innings.

Similar to his celebration in the first innings, when Pant achieved his century in the second innings, the whole audience and commentary team waited for his signature somersault celebration. But instead, Pant decided to gesture to Gavaskar in the spectators, telling him to somersault later.

"Very, very happy. I mean, anytime an Indian does well, you feel very happy because you know the passion for cricket in India, how just about every, in every family, I'm sure there is at least one person who, it might not be everybody, at least one person who follows the game," Gavaskar said on Sony Sports Network after Day 4.

Gavaskar continued his praise for Pant's comeback, stating: "And therefore to make that family happy, if you can do well, if India does well, then naturally it is, it's a great feeling. And so, to see this young kid come back, I mean, look what had happened to him with all those, with that crash."

Former England captain Michael Vaughan questioned Pant's new celebration during commentary: "Can you explain what that celebration is? Do you know what that is? I was waiting for that flip as well. I was rather disappointed with the commentary when he didn't produce a double flip. Knowing Rishabh, he's always going to try to improve his celebrations, but I guess your celebration is probably taking this bit."

Gavaskar explained Pant's new celebration: "No, this is, I think that's basically, thanking the gods above. He had something in his eye. He kind of put us on the signal."

Gavaskar then made a stunning revelation, saying that even he was planning to do a backstand, but his age kept him from doing so.

"You know what, I've got to confess that after that, I came here, and I tried not to do the backflip, no chance of, at my age, but I used to do the backstand, and I was looking to do the backstand. So if I could do it successfully then, then I would have shown it here, but I wasn't able to,” Gavaskar stated.

England ended day 4 at 21/0 and need 350 runs more on the final day to win the first Test.