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Rishabh Pant Unleashes Power-Hitting Masterclass in Preparation for Duleep Trophy Ahead of India vs Bangladesh
Rishabh Pant Unleashes Power-Hitting Masterclass in Preparation for Duleep Trophy Ahead of India vs Bangladesh
Rishabh Pant is back to business, showing the same panache that has made him a household name in red-ball cricket. Eighteen months of harrowing hiatus after a dreadful car accident in December 2022, dynamic Indian wicketkeeperbatter is preparing for his longawaited return to Test cricket.
While he has already rebooted his career in T20I and ODI formats with aplomb, the upcoming Test series between India and Bangladesh, which starts on September 19 in Chennai, will be his comeback to the format which brought stardom into his career.
On Friday, Pant shared a snippet on Instagram of his strenuous training at the nets, where he was seen honing his patented shots: slog sweeps, reverse sweeps and also belligerent pulls.
This video he had captioned, “I try not to have expectations because they tend to tear you apart. I try to work as hard as I possibly can and give every ounce of a hundred percent & keep Learning from it. #RP17.”
Ahead of the Test series, Pant will tune up in the Duleep Trophy, which India B will play under the captaincy of Abhimanyu Easwaran.
The four-team competition has been revived this season to give India’s Test aspirants proper match practice ahead of the home season and for Pant, this is a vital part of his comeback roadmap into red-ball cricket.
The comeback to competitive cricket had started earlier this year when he led Delhi Capitals in the IPL. Though his franchise finished sixth, Pant topped the run-getting charts for his team, scoring 446 runs in 13 matches at a strike rate of over 155, with three half-centuries.
He has been equally effective upon his return to the international arena.Pant has played a vital role in India’s ICC T20 World Cup win, finishing third among the highest run-getters for the team, with a record for most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in a single T20 World Cup edition.
So, while Pant gears up for the upcoming Test overviews against Bangladesh, the cricketing fraternity is all set to be treated with his exciting performance on the pitch. Pant, being a game-changer, has scored 2,271 runs in 33 Tests since 2018 at an average of 43.67 with the help of five centuries and 11 fifties.
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The excitement will increase manifold with his extraordinary record in Australia, more so in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, having scored 624 runs in seven matches on Australian soil at an average of over 62. And all eyes will be on Pant when he takes the field representing India B in the Duleep Trophy and subsequently during the Test series against Bangladesh-one more important chapter in this unbelievable cricketing odyssey.
