Rishabh Pant’s gigantic six off Nathan Lyon: The Indian wicket-keeper batsman was seen scoring a monumental six in the first innings.
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During the third day of the second Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Perth, India wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant hit a monumental six off Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
Pant, who came in to bat at No. 7 in the 86th over, ended up scoring 36 (50) with the help of two fours and a six. While the Indian team and fans would have wanted for him to take India much closer to the Australian total, Pant made sure that India’s trail remained under 50 runs.
With India playing four specialist fast bowlers and with all of them having minimal potential with the bat, Pant was practically left with not many batting partners. Therefore, playing the big shots seemed to be his sole option in a bid to accumulate runs against a quality bowling attack.
Pant was the penultimate Indian batsman to be dismissed, eventually getting out in the 106th over of the innings. It was Pant’s attempt to up the ante which saw him mis-timing a Nathan Lyon delivery to Mitchell Starc at long-on.
Of the three boundaries which he hit, Pant took on Lyon in the 102nd over of the innings when he hit a four and a six in the same over against Australia’s premier off-spinner. On the third ball of the over, Pant stepped out to loft a delivery over the bowler’s head.
In which was a colossal hit, it ended up landing on the second tier of the Perth stadium. Watch the full video below:
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