After a series of failures with the bat in all formats, Indian wicketkeeper-hitter Rishabh Pant returned to form on Day 2 of India’s warm-up game at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He made a strong selection case before the first Test against Australia with a century-long break with just 73 deliveries.
Pant broke a total of 22 runs on the final day of Saturday. He was hitting 81 of 67 when Australian pacemaker Jack Wildermuth came on attack. With 19 races short of his eleventh one hundred first class, Pant wreaked havoc on the SCG and reached four limits and one six to finish the finish.
Many would have thought that the wicket hitter will come the next day and improve the century. But he had other plans. After being hit in the ribs from the first installment, Pant launched a lethal attack on the pacemaker to hit all three figures.
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Pant’s 103 undefeated included nine fours and six sixes. He teamed up with Hanuma Vihari, who also scored 104 unbeaten on 194 balls, to sew a whopping 147-run position for the fifth wicket. As a result, India took a sizable 472-run lead in the second inning late in the day.
In their first innings, India was out by 194, which would have been a lot less if it weren’t for Jasprit Bumrah’s first-class top fifty spearhead pace, but the visitors staged a strong comeback with both bat and bat. With the ball.
Going out to bat again at the start of the day’s play, all the other Indian hitters, except Prithvi Shaw (3), were between runs. In addition to Vihari and Pant, Shubman Gill (65) and Mayank Agarwal (51) scored half a century in India’s second inning.
India had eliminated Australia A by 108 after being sacked by 194 on SCG’s opening day.
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