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India vs Australia: Rishabh Pant and Sunil Gavaskar© X/Twitter
India’s begin to the third day of the fourth Check in opposition to Australia in Melbourne was not promising in any respect because the Rohit Sharma-led facet misplaced Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja within the first session itself. Being the final specialist batter left after India had gone 5 down on Day 2, all eyes had been on Pant to ship a memorable knock. However he may rating solely 28 off 37 balls. He did get just a few boundaries and had fortunate escapes, earlier than falling to Scott Boland after trying a lap shot and getting caught by Nathan Lyon.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar was livid with Pant’s shot choice with India in dire straits.
“That is a terrible shot selection especially with the fielders placed where they were. He seems to have two ways of scoring either by hammering the ball over long on or looking to play these shots. Which means, at the Test level you can’t always score consistently. If he wants to bat this way, he can’t bat at no. 5 but lmaybe ower down the order. That means that he will score some runs here and there,” Sunil Gavaskar stated on Star Sports activities.
“You see some of his fours there were edges through the slips. His 50 plus conversion rate is just 19 per cent? Is that good enough for a no. 5?”
Speaking in regards to the continuing on Day 3 earlier than Lunch, India misplaced the in a single day pair of Rishabh Pant and Ravidra Jadeja earlier than reaching 244 for seven. India, who began the day on 164 for 5 and 310 runs in arrears, diminished the deficit to 230.
Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar had been batting on 40 and 5 respectively when lunch break was known as. Pant made 28 earlier than making a gift of his wicket to Scott Boland, whereas Jadeja was trapped lbw for 1.
With PTI inputs
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