Mohali: Rishabh Pant is an anomaly in Indian cricket. He changes the course of a game faster than opinions about him. Friday was just another day of the now-usual Pant-mania as he walked in at 170/3 40 minutes before tea, took on a rather erratic but effective Sri Lankan attack and left the field half an hour before stumps after ravaging the tourists with a 97-ball 96 on the opening day of the two-Test series.
The 172 minutes of exhilarating batting, which was ended by Suranga Lakmal breaching the batter’s defence with the second new ball, put India in a position of dominance with 357/6 on the board at stumps. The carnage inflicted by Pant aside, Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne may be ruing playing three seamers and one specialist spinner.
He has laid the foundation for Ravindra Jadeja (batting on 45) and Ashwin (batting on 10) to bat Sri Lanka out of the game on Saturday morning.
This story is from the March 05, 2022 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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