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India wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant mentioned he batted with restraint on the opening day of the fifth Check towards Australia as a result of character of the SCG pitch didn’t enable him to be in his customary aggressive self. Pant, who copped extreme criticism from all corners for his callous method to batting through the earlier Check at Melbourne, made a 98-ball 40 in India’s 185 all out right here on Friday. “In this innings, I wasn’t in frame of mind where I felt I could take charge of the game looking at nature of the wicket,” Pant mentioned within the post-day press meet.
“Sometimes you have to play secure cricket as there were occasions where I could have taken 50-50 chances but didn’t,” he added.
The left-hander additionally mentioned he’s evolving as a batter, looking for the correct stability between defence and aggression.
“You want to bat the way that comes naturally to you but keep evolving and trying to keep a balance between attack and defence.” Pant admitted {that a} batter tends to complicate issues when he’s not batting properly.
“When you are not doing well you tend to overthink,” he mentioned.
Debutant Aussie all-rounder Beau Webster concurred with Pant’s view on the pitch.
“They (India batters) decided to knuckle down and made us bowl lot of overs. I am not sure what a good score on this track but we would have batted first had he won the toss,” mentioned Webster.
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