Twitter appreciates Rishabh Pant’s tone
The beauty of Test cricket is that it is like life, sometimes it becomes easy and sometimes it becomes difficult but still you need to stick to it. Then there’s Rishabh Pant’s way, where you knock it out of the park, no matter what the challenges are on you.
With doubts hovering over the Indian batsmen, Rishabh Pant came out and started belting the ball as he usually does. Pant wreaked havoc on the dominant English side and at one point it seemed that skipper Stokes had no answer for Pant’s talent. It was also a disappointing day for the bowler Stokes as he kept bowling no balls to create trouble for Rishabh Pant.
Brendon McCullum at the helm of English cricket, Ben Stokes and his team have been playing aggressive Test cricket, but one Pant gives him a taste of his own medicine. He played a blistering innings of 146 runs in 111 balls and ran ahead M S DhoniRecord of 100 runs in 93 balls outside India. Pant hit 20 fours and 4 sixes in his scintillating innings and scored runs at a strike rate of 131.53.
When the Delhi Capitals captain came out to bat, India were trailing 71-4 and their top order was completely gone, the likes of which Virat KohliHanuma Vihari, Chetshwar Pujara, and Shubhman Gill.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
England Playing XI: Alex Lees, Zak Crowley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny BairstowBen Stokes, Sam Billings, Matty Potts, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, James Anderson
India’s Playing XI: Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar PujaraHanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra JadejaShardul Thakur, Mohammed ShamiMohd Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah