New Delhi: Rishabh Pant made a sensational comeback to Test cricket and scored a century on day 3 of the first Test match between India and Bangladesh at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Pant scored 109 runs off 128 balls with the help of 13 boundaries and 4 maximums. He also stitched a crucial 167-run partnership with Shubman Gill for the fourth wicket. Pant returned to Test cricket 634 days later after he suffered a life-threatening car accident in December 2022. He equalled Dhoni’s record for most Test centuries by an Indian wicketkeeper-batter.
Pant played a Duleep Trophy match and scored a half-century for India B before making a return to the national side. He looked promising in the first innings of the Test match and scored 39 runs off 52 balls.
Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar compared Rishabh Pant with MS Dhoni and said that he has a good technique similar to Dhoni. He further added that people talk about Dhoni’s leadership and power-hitting but he had a pretty solid defensive technique and Pant also has a similar technique.
“He has got a pretty good defensive technique, bit like Dhoni, whose defensive technique was quite good. People talk about the leadership and the big-hitting power that Dhoni had, but his defensive technique was pretty good, and the same with Rishabh Pant as well” Manjrekar told ESPNcricinfo.
‘Pant has his own way of scoring runs’: Sanjay Manjrekar
Manjrekar also praised Rishabh Pant and said that he has his own way of playing and getting runs. He further added that Team India will need Pant when they tour Australia for the five-match Test series in November.
“We’ve seen these phases but it’s about Pant playing as per the situation, sometimes dependent on his mood but also very careful about choosing the right kind of bowlers as long as there were off-spinners bowling, he wasn’t taking too many chances. So he is that kind of player who has his own way of getting runs and has his own agenda – a bit like Virender Sehwag. When India goes to Australia, that is when they truly need him,” Manjrekar added.
Rishabh Pant scored his sixth Test hundred in the first Test against Bangladesh at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Cricket Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
