Australia coach Andrew McDonald was not the least bit surprised by Rishabh Pant’s blistering knock of 61 off 33 balls, hitting four sixes and six fours, on the second day of the Sydney Test in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and the wicket-keeper batsman’s Cited his “amazing” ability to apply pressure. Back to the bowler.
Pant scored the second-fastest fifty by an Indian in a match against Sri Lanka in Bengaluru in 2022, with 29 off the first ball of the man from Haridwar in Uttarakhand.
‘It’s not surprising the way he plays. We were a little surprised at first by the way he handled things. He has an incredible ability to put pressure back on the bowlers. It was the perfect inning for the situation,” McDonald said in his second-day post-game press conference.
