duleep trophy 2024 rishabh pant hit fifty on 34 balls ahead of ind vs ban test series

Indian cricket team’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant has returned to first class cricket. After a long gap of 21 months, his bat has spoken in the Duleep Trophy. Although his bat was silent in the first match against India A, but in the second innings he played a quick innings and scored an important fifty for the team. Pant’s selection in the Indian team for the Test series against Bangladesh is almost certain and his innings has also given him a lot of confidence.

While playing for India B, Pant was able to score only 7 runs in 10 balls in the first innings against India A. But in the second innings, his style was different. In this innings, it seemed as if he was playing T20 cricket. In the second innings, he scored a half-century in just 34 balls and then got out after scoring 61 runs in 47 balls. Pant hit 2 sixes and 9 fours during this time while his strike rate was 129.79. This is Pant’s 20th half-century in first class cricket.

Let us tell you that the top order batsmen of India B proved to be flops. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out after scoring just 9 runs in this innings while captain Abhimanyu Easwaran played an innings of 4 runs. Mushir Khan, who scored 181 runs in the first innings of this match, was out on a golden duck in the second innings and Sarfaraz Khan scored 46 runs in 36 balls with the help of a six and 7 fours in the second innings.