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  • Rishabh Pant created history, the only Indian to do this amazing in Test cricket

    Team India’s wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, playing his fifth Test in Australia, made history. In fact, in the first Test being played between India and Australia, Pant has done a wonderful job, which could not be done by any Indian player till date.

    Pant scored 29 runs in 40 balls in India’s first innings in the Boxing Day Test and shared a crucial 57-run partnership for the fifth wicket with captain Ajinkya Rahane. With this 29 runs, he joined a special club.

    Pant has scored 25 or more in the last eight innings in Australia. Pant is the only player to do this amazing. No Indian batsman had done this feat on Australian soil before in Test cricket. Pant has scored 25, 28, 36, 30, 39, 33, 159 * and respectively in the last eight innings in Australia.

  • Former stars hail stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane’s leadership

    India’s stand-in skipper Ajinkya Rahane drew praise for his tactical acumen with former stars hailing his effective bowling changes that put the visitors in a dominating position in the second Test against Australia here on Saturday.
    Australia opted to bat but it was India that seized the initiative with Rahane shuffling his bowlers smartly to keep the hosts under the pump.
    Whether it was the early introduction of off-spinner R Ashwin or the decision to hold back debutant Mohammed Siraj, all his ploys yielded results and eventually the hosts were all out for 195.