The Indian home season kicked off with aplomb in Bengaluru with the Duleep Trophy opener between India A and India B on a spicy deck on the Chinnaswamy stadium. The luxurious inexperienced pitch offered a improbable alternative for the India A pacers to stamp their authority after skipper Shubman Gill gained the toss and selected to bowl first. Though openers Abhimanyu Easwaran and Yashasvi Jaiswal remained steadfast in a 33-run opening stand, wickets quickly started to tumble and the crew have been left reeling at 67/3 with Musheer Khan and Rishabh Pant on the crease. The latter, returning to first-class cricket after two years, started in emphatic vogue with a boundary however his attacking instincts led to his downfall, full with some brilliance from Gill within the discipline.
Pant shuffled down the monitor on the second supply of the thirty fifth over and tried to dispatch Akash Deep down the bottom with a flat-batter shot. Nonetheless, he may solely join with the toe-end of his bat in opposition to the ball angling inwards and the pink cherry soared excessive within the sky whereas travelling previous the 30-yard circle. Gill, stationed at mid-on, was fast to anticipate the trajectory as he sprinted backwards with the ball coming over his shoulder, earlier than timing a dive in entrance of him to perfection. The India A skipper was practically parallel to the bottom when the SG ball caught in his prolonged palms and unsurprisingly celebrated the marvellous take with ectsacy whereas Pant stood his floor distraught.
The wicket-keeper batter had no possibility however to stroll off the sphere for a paltry rating of seven, sparking debate on Twitter over his potential return to the Take a look at crew after the prolonged break from red-ball cricket.
Gill exhibiting his health stage!!
Absolute blinder!
Blinder of a catch by Shubman Gill to do away with Rishabh Pant. pic.twitter.com/3ZcAFskFMs
— psyf (@PsyfeR888) September 5, 2024
A spectacular diving catch from India A captain Shubman Gill operating backwards ends Rishabh Pant’s keep. A wild hoick throughout the road and the ball flew off the forefront earlier than Gill pulled off a blinder. Akash Deep proceeds to scrub up Nitish Kumar the subsequent ball
#DuleepTrophy pic.twitter.com/SZJejpvpWW— Lalith Kalidas (@lal__kal) September 5, 2024
Gone
Dismissed
Rishabh Pant dismissed for 7 in 10 balls. https://t.co/NoXQXiiMqa pic.twitter.com/bgQA9OjqyY
— 𝗥𝗼𝗵𝗶𝕥 𝗬𝗮𝗱𝗮𝕧🇮🇳 (@rohit_ydv96) September 5, 2024
Rishabh Pant when bowler just isn’t Lyon and Leach. pic.twitter.com/AWtfb0jxSy
— Oggy🐉 (@meri_mrziii) September 5, 2024
Unfortunate
OP
Catch bhoot op the bhayi subhnam ka aur koi hute toh chod deta pant ache contact me lag rhe the however sadly out
— SHASHANK NIRVAN (@ShashankNi23933) September 5, 2024
Pant 😭😭
— Havok (@slogsweep__) September 5, 2024
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