Rishabh Pant: Every time I go out to bat, I just enjoy myself
Updated On: 05 January, 2019 07:36 AM IST | Sydney | R Kaushik
'Keeper-batsman Rishabh Pant slams quickfire 159* to tire Australia as India declare at 622-7 on Day Two; says he doesn't think much about centuries
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Ecstatic Rishabh Pant celebrates his 100 against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday. Pic/Getty Images
Since making his debut in Nottingham in mid-August, Rishabh Pant has scored two hundreds and as many fifties in nine Tests, boasting an impressive average of 49.71 to go with a strike-rate of 73.80. Upwards of 56 per cent of his 696 runs have come in boundaries — he has already struck 70 fours and 17 sixes — but he has shown as this series has progressed that he is not just a dasher.
His maturity as a batsman was on evidence at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) yesterday as well. Alongside Cheteshwar Pujara, he was a picture of watchfulness during a sixth-wicket stand of 89 as he followed team plans to the letter on Day Two of the final Test. Then, when the time came to get on the bike, he did so with consummate ease, playing strokes orthodox and cheeky as he hurtled to 159 not out in just 189 deliveries.
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