India’s Rishabh Pant scored 61 off 33 balls in opposition to Australia on Day 2 of fifth Take a look at.© AFP
Rishabh Pant performed some of the terrific knocks of his profession in Take a look at cricket on Saturday. With the Indian prime order as soon as once more failing to offer the facet a robust begin, Pant walked in on Day 2 of the fifth and ultimate Take a look at vs Australia along with his facet reeling at 59 for 3 and went on to hit the quickest fifty by a visiting batter on Australian soil. His contribution of 61 off 33 deliveries, laced with six fours and 4 sixes, obtained him lots of reward by former India stars. In the meantime, India’s 1983 World Cup-winner Krishnamachari Srikkanth got here up with a humorous tweet to laud the southpaw.
“What a knock by pant! He is simply taken the pants of the Aussies! #INDvsAUS,” wrote Srikkanth on X.
What a knock by pant! He is simply taken the pants of the Aussies! #INDvsAUS
— Kris Srikkanth (@KrisSrikkanth) January 4, 2025
Pant accomplished his fifty off 29 balls with the assistance of a six in opposition to Mitchell Starc. He bettered earlier 33-ball efforts by England’s John Brown (Melbourne 1895) and West Indies’ Roy Fredericks (Perth 1975). It was additionally the second-fastest half-century by an Indian batter in a Take a look at match.
The quickest half-century file by an Indian batter in a Take a look at match additionally belongs to Pant which he attained in 28-ball in opposition to Sri Lanka in Bengaluru in 2022.
The wicketkeeper-batter’s knock was lastly put to an finish by Australia captain Pat Cummins off an outdoor edge to Alex Carey behind the stumps. Pant slammed 61 off 33 balls studded with 4 sixes and 6 fours. He was additionally concerned in a 46-run essential partnership with Ravindra Jadeja to take India’s whole previous three figures.
India ended the day at 141/6 and shall be hoping Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar, who remained unbeaten at stumps, so as to add some priceless runs earlier than the facet involves defend what appears to be a modest whole within the making.
With the sequence guests main the sequence 2-1, the Indian bowling assault must be in full swing within the ultimate innings if India hope to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
(With ANI Inputs)
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