Cape Town: Overjoyed with Rishabh Pant’s batting in India’s second innings, bowling coach Paras Mhambrey said on Thursday that the wicket-keeper batsman got runs when the team needed him the most. Pant scored an unbeaten century in tough conditions, facing some unfavorable bowling by the home bowlers. Thanks to Pant’s fearless attitude, India set the Proteas a target of 212 runs.
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“It was a great innings that really got us back in the game. There is pressure on him (Pant) from a personal point of view, obviously not scoring runs in a couple of innings but scoring runs at crucial stages is important for the team.” Pant faced criticism for poor shot selection in his last innings But on Thursday he played a brilliant innings. Not an easy wicket to bat on, but (he) showed a lot of character there, really pleased,” Mumbrey said.
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The coach was happy that Pant responded to the situation in the best possible way as he did not play any rash shots and focused on building partnerships. “At that time, you ideally wanted a partnership and you have someone like Virat (Kohli) at the other end, you wanted to have a good partnership, which was going on.
“At that level, as a batsman, you sometimes have to take a back seat and assess the conditions and say what is right at that level. He (Pant) batted very well in terms of the way forward for the game and in that sense. “Mambare said that Pant realized that after the captain was dismissed, Pant took the role of leader at the crease. “Once you lost Virat, he had to take that lead role and what he did and then tell -Also partnered with Anders. He batted very intelligently, giving us a great chance to win a Test from here.” Mhambrey was hopeful that the conditions would give his pacers a fair fight and they just needed to hit the right length.
“It’s not an easy wicket, I think there’s a little weird bounce on a patch that’s built up, but it’s not going to be an easy wicket.” We still know that even today in the later stages, some The balls kicked, hit the gloves, hit the chest. Keep it simple, hit the right areas and be patient about it,” signed the bowling coach.
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