Pant still batted for more than an hour while limping for runs
Rishabh Pant is being lauded for his move to bat through pain of a foot fracture during the fourth Test against England. Pant, who walked off the pitch in excruciating pain on the first day, limped down the stairs from the dressing room at Old Trafford after the fall of the sixth wicket and batted for more than an hour.
The southpaw reached the fourth fifty of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy before returning as India’s ninth wicket as they were restricted to 358 all out by England. Despite the fracture, the Indian keeper hobbled to singles and took the aerial route whenever there was a chance, even though it was nowhere near to his attacking ability in the first three Tests.
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While many were effusive in their praise of Pant including the Manchester crowd who gave him a stand ovation when he walked in for the second time, England great David Lloyd felt the ‘Legends Lounge’ inside the stadium felt he was taking advantage of the officials.
“Pant looked in pain; pretty heroic of him to come out, though. Northerners, whether they are tough enough, but I was in that legends lounge today, and the consensus was ‘He has milking that injury. It can’t be that bad. He’s milked it, coming down those steps, and one or two said, ‘He should be timed out,’” Lloyd said while speaking on talkSPORT Cricket.
Pant wasn’t allowed to have a runner as the ICC had discontinued the rule back in 2011 which required the left-hander to take his chances only when fielders near the boundary had to run to get the ball. Pant was also welcomed by a superb yorker directed at toes by England captain Ben Stokes, which he flicked on the leg-side.
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In the process, he equalled former opener Virender Sehwag’s record of 90 Test sixes – the most by an Indian.
While his batting position in the second innings is not confirmed, Pant is surely out of the fifth and final Test at The Oval as the BCCI confirmed that he will be out of action for close to six weeks. Dhruv Jurel, who scored a fifty in the warm-up matches with India A, has come as a substitute for Pant from the second day of the third Test and is likely to get a playing spot in the fifth Test.
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