Portugal Colonial - Pant puts best foot forward to give India hope

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Pant puts best foot forward to give India hope

SPORTS 21.01.2022

Rishabh Pant made a hard-hit 85 to spearhead India's bid to square the series in the second one-day international against South Africa at Boland Park in Paarl on Friday.

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India, who lost the first match by 31 runs at the same venue on Wednesday, made 287 for six after captain KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bat.

The left-handed Pant made batting look easy on a slow pitch, striking the ball to all parts of the ground and on several occasions taking one hand off his bat as he hit the ball.

Pant hit ten fours and two sixes in a 71-ball innings.

Rahul made 55 off 79 balls and shared a third-wicket partnership of 115 with Pant.

But Rahul was dropped twice and the stand should have been broken after the pair had added only six runs when an easy run-out opportunity was botched with both batsmen at the same end of the pitch.

Shardul Thakur (40 not out) and Ravichandran Ashwin (25 not out) scored freely in an unbeaten seventh-wicket stand of 48 in the last six overs as the bowlers wilted in heat which reached 40C (104 degrees Fahrenheit) towards the end of the innings.

A.Motta--PC

Portugal Colonial - Pant puts best foot forward to give India hope

Pant puts best foot forward to give India hope

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