Rishabh Pant steals show by helping Bangladesh in field placements on Day 3 of IND vs BAN 1st Test – WATCH
Rishabh Pant is playing his first Test match in over two years after the horrific car accident in December 2022.
Chennai: Rishabh Pant is a personality both at the back of and in front of the wicket. While he is believed to be among the vital chirpiest wicketkeepers in world cricket, the southpaw made each and each person laugh their heart out by setting the Bangladesh fielding on Day Three of the ongoing first Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday.
The incident befell presently after the play started on an overcast morning on third day. Pant, taking the strike, noticed the opposition captain Najmul Hossain Shanto having a tricky time in his field placements. “Arre idhar aayega ek…bhai, ek idhar, one fielder here, mid-wicket,” Pant said. Interestingly, Shanto and the bowler (a pacer) did exactly as Pant advised by placing a fielder at mid-wicket, leaving the on-air commentators in splits.
Always in the captain’s ear, even when it’s the opposition’s!
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— JioCinema (@JioCinema) September 21, 2024
At lunch, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant cantered to fluent fifties as India reached 205/Three in their 2nd innings on the third day to take total regulate of the primary Test. Gill (86 batting) and Pant (eighty two batting), who this point added 138-runs for the unbroken fourth wicket, were at the crease at the tip of the primary session with India, overnight eighty one/Three, extending their bring about 432 runs.
Gill, initiating the day from 33, and Pant, resuming from 12, exploited the shortcoming of Bangladesh bowlers to make the appropriate out of a cool, damp morning with sensible shot-making. The Indian pair took on Bangladesh bowlers in their very own inimitable ways. Minimalism is quintessential to Gill’s batting as he plays shots with little flourish.
The short-arm pull from in front of the face or that zero follow-through punch through the covers, which he often executed off Nahid Rana and Mahmud Hasan, may perchance now no longer be out of the batting manual but productive then again.
Gill took another solid step forward in his growing familiarity with Test cricket here, declaring an individual fifty off seventy nine balls, and is looking good for more. Pant, then again, is playing his first Test after 2022, and celebrated his re-entry with a fifty of his own after getting pushed aside cheaply in the primary innings.
The left-hander started rather sedately, perchance wanted to get his eye in earlier than opening up. The breakaway moment came when he pulled off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz for a four across the primary drinks break of the day. Since that time, Pant’s dismantling of Miraz turned into a feature of the innings as he brought up his fifty off 88 balls. Once that fifty became achieved, the 26-year-old unfurled quite some those typical Pant shots.
Pant moved across the crease like a trapeze artist, and his scooped six over fine leg off Mahmud enthralled a sizeable weekend crowd here. He became dropped on Seventy two by Najmul Hossain Shanto off Shakib Al Hasan as India added 124 runs in the session.
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