IND vs AUS: 'I wasn't in mind set', says Rishabh Pant | Cricket Information

NEW DELHI: India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant defined that he adopted a restrained strategy on the opening day of the fifth Take a look at towards Australia because of the difficult nature of the SCG pitch, which prevented him from enjoying his regular aggressive recreation.
Pant, who confronted criticism for his reckless batting within the earlier Take a look at at Melbourne, scored a affected person 40 off 98 balls in India’s whole of 185 all out on Friday.
“On this innings, I wasn’t in mind set the place I felt I might take cost of the sport taking a look at nature of the wicket,” Pant mentioned in the course of the post-day press convention.

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“Typically you must play safe cricket as there have been events the place I might have taken 50-50 possibilities however did not,” he added.
The left-hander additionally famous that he’s evolving as a batter, striving to strike a stability between defence and aggression.
“You wish to bat the way in which that comes naturally to you however hold evolving and attempting to maintain a stability between assault and defence,” he mentioned.

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Pant acknowledged the psychological challenges of batting throughout a tough patch.
“If you end up not doing nicely you are likely to overthink,” he admitted.
Debutant Australian all-rounder Beau Webster shared Pant’s evaluation of the pitch.
“They (India batters) determined to knuckle down and made us bowl lot of overs. I’m not certain what a great rating on this observe however we might have batted first had we received the toss,” Webster mentioned.

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