Bangalore: As n the current Test series against New Zealand in Bangalore, Rishabh Pant is all set to going back to the crease for Team India. The dynamic wicketkeeping batsman had to sit out on the second day of the match because of a knee injury, the same knee that has had surgery done on it. Nevertheless, it is believed that Pant would be fit to resume his place in Indian line-up on the fourth day of the Test match as he has been seen wearing pads in the dressing room.
Pant had to leave the field due to a knee injury during the second day of the Bangalore Test. However, from the news emerging from the camp, this injury is not serious enough to rule him out for the rest of the series. The third day was also warm up for Pant but he did not enter the ground to bat but he had a chance to have a word with fielding and bowling coaches as well as perform warm up session during intervals of play. The team management still seems to have high expectations that he would be back on the field soon, Pant also echoed the same sentiments stating he is fit to perform without much complications.
Cricket team India has come up with a great comeback in the Bangalore test. Following on 46 all out in the first innings, Indian batsmen came up with a powerful show in second innings scoring 231 for three. …making himself a absolutely crucial figure in the side Kohli was the main scorer in this match contributing a rather inertly paced 70 runs of 102 balls including 8 fours and one six. In the same wicket, Surpriz Khan also played a good knock and stayed not out on 70 of 78 balls; 7 fours and 3 sixes. Rohit Sharma also played a useful innings, making a fifty-plus score of 52.
The Indian team staged a comeback through Kohli who bats solidly and Surpriz Khan who continued to press on relentlessly. Rohit Sharma, yet again, came up with a fifty that made India’s total competitive enough in the second innings for New Zealand. The rescue act of a team’s batting has been made possible by individual performances from the particular batting lineup.
There is a huge expectation for Pant’s possible inclusion in the playing eleven, more so given how he was relentless in his efforts to recover from injury. The team selection likely to be implemented by this strategy will continue to have Pant at the lower middle order to add to India’s visitors power play aggressive stroke and fast leg side running between wickets. He will also help in strengthening the Indian batting line up by offering the team the best someone who can build or accelerate the innings.
Attention, of course, focuses on Pant’s return and India’s opener’s option to keep up the performance with the Test match entering the fourth day. The Indian team which has shown commitment and improvement has their sight set on trying to get a good result in the cricket series. Kohli, Khan, Sharma, and Pant and others have begun reacting interchangeably, with young Pant expected to shine in the remaining matches and bring down the curtains on this well fought TESTING Test series.
Rishabh Pant coming to bat at No 7 position can be really advantageous for the Team India while they aim at building upon their fairly good second innings in Bangalore. Due to excellent mentality and superiority in the minds, India is ready for the battle against New Zealand in the test series and can reach a high level in the matches. Both fans and critics will keenly about Pant’s performance and strategies of India in coming days.