Rahul Tiwari
khelja|04-01-2025
Ultimately, Rishabh Pant's bat roared in stormy style in the second innings of the Sydney Test. Rishabh Pant showed his brilliant performance in the last match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy being played in Sydney. He batted in T-20 mode and scored a brilliant half century in just 29 balls. Pant's stormy fifty forced the fans present in the stadium to dance. At the same time, 'God of Cricket' Sachin Tendulkar also became a fan of this innings of Rishabh. After this inning of Pant, he said that watching Pant bat is always entertaining.
After Rishabh Pant's stormy innings, even Sachin Tendulkar could not stop himself from praising the Indian wicketkeeper. Sachin wrote for Pant on X-Post, 'On a wicket where most of the batsmen have batted at a strike rate of 50 or less, Rishabh Pant's innings with a strike rate of 184 is truly remarkable. He has troubled Australia from the very first ball. It is always entertaining to watch him bat. What an impressive innings.
On a wicket where majority of the batters have batted at a SR of 50 or less, @RishabhPant17's knock with a SR of 184 is truly remarkable. He has rattled Australia with ball one. It is always entertaining to watch him bat. What an impactful innings!#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/rU3L7OL1UX
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 4, 2025
Rishabh Pant scored the highest score of 40 runs for India in the first innings of Sydney Test. In the second innings he scored a fifty. First he completed his half century in 29 balls. Even after this, the fast-paced game continued but on the personal score of 61 runs, Pant was caught by Alex Carey off the ball of Pat Cummins. Pant hit 6 fours and 4 sixes in 33 balls. His strike rate was more than 184.
In the last test, Team India's first innings was limited to 185 runs. Rishabh had scored 40 runs. Scott Bowland took maximum 4 wickets. Australia's first innings collapsed for 181 runs. Debutant Beau Webster contributed 57 runs. For India, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna took three wickets each. By the end of the second day's play, Team India had scored 141 runs after losing 6 wickets in the second innings. Based on the lead of four runs in the first innings, India's total lead has become 145 runs.