Rishabh Pant Smashes His Trademark One-handed Six to Send the Ball Goes Out of the Park: WATCH

The ongoing Bangladesh Test in Chennai marked Rishabh Pant’s return to the longest format of the game after almost two years. He couldn’t leave a huge impact with the bat in the first innings, scoring 39 runs off 52 balls. However, he seemed to be getting back into his skin with an array of artistic shots in India’s second essay at Chepauk and also notching up his 12^th half-century in the longest format of the game.

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Pant reached his fifty off 88 balls on the third day of the ongoing Test. But before reaching the milestone, he showcased his trademark shots, including a one-handed six and paddle sweep on knees.

It was the 40^th over of India’s second innings when Mehidy Hasan Miraz bowled a fuller delivery around off. Pant went down the track and lofted it aerially over long off, losing the grip of his bottom hand.

In Miraz’s next over, he got down low to paddle-sweep the ball fine of the gully fielder to pick up a couple of runs and reach 48. In the 44^th over, the wicketkeeper-batter picked up a single off the Bangladesh spinner’s bowling to reach his 12^th fifty in Test cricket.

Pant and Gill added 138-runs for the unbroken fourth wicket, were at the crease at the end of the first session with India, overnight 81 for three, extending their lead to 432 runs.

There was no respite for Bangladesh as Gill continued to dazzle with his down the ground and pull shots, while Pant was terrific in his loft, reverse-sweep, backfoot punch, and heave shots to dispatch bowlers all over the park.

After being dropped on 72 by Shanto off an off-colour Shakib, Pant brought out the sweep and down the ground shot over long-off to take a brace of fours and push the match out of Bangladesh’s reach at lunch.

Brief Scores: India 376 and 205/3 in 51 overs (Shubman Gill 86 not out, Rishabh Pant 82 not out; Nahid Rana 1-21) lead Bangladesh 149 by 432 runs