Rishabh Pant, renowned for blasting spinners in Test cricket, was seen approaching the match as if it was a short format game, during the opening Test match of the two-match Test series on Friday, March 4, at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali, Chandigarh.<\/p>\n
Against Sri Lanka, he smashed four sixes and nine boundaries. Pant hit an unbelievable six in the opening ball of the 76th over, followed by an unbelievable six and four in the second and third deliveries. Pant took a double on the 5th ball of the over after defending the 4th. The young wicketkeeper-batsman was not finished yet, as he hit another boundary on the penultimate delivery of Lasith Embuldeniya\u2019s over to make it 22 runs.<\/p>\n
Pant\u2019s 96 marked India\u2019s second half-century in the first innings, with Hanuma Viahri, the new No. 3 batsman, getting 58 off 128 balls. Likewise, Virat Kohli, who is playing his 100th Test match for India, is the nation\u2019s 12th player to reach the milestone, finished with 45 from 76 balls.<\/p>\n
Lasith Embuldeniya took two wickets for 107 runs in 28 overs, including Kohli\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n
India scored 357 runs on Day 1, with Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin scoring 45 and 10 runs respectively. Despite being Virat Kohli\u2019s 100th Test match, Rishabh Pant stole the show in the opening innings of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Mohali on Friday. Pant\u2019s 96-run blast saw India conclude the day on 357\/6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-rishabh-pant"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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