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AUS vs IND | Twitter swoons as Pant plays fire with fire after counterattacking on-song Boland with first ball four

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ByArijit Kundu, SportsCafe Editor

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Defensive mindset does not necessarily work all the time in the realm of red-ball cricket. This could be the possible reason behind Rishabh Pant's ploy to play fire with fire as he counterpunched on-song Scott Boland on the first ball that he faced right after Virat Kohli's departure in Adelaide.

India faced a tough challenge against the hard new pink ball that the Australian bowlers donned under the floodlights. Trailing by 157 runs, they lost three wickets quickly in the last session of the second day with Virat Kohli being removed by Scott Boland. Unbothered by the pressure, Pant took an aggressive route to dwarf Boland’s confidence.

After drawing the outside edge of Kohli on the third ball of the 15th over with a length delivery outside the stumps, Boland was all set to bowl against new batter Pant. He went for a similar line and length against the wicketkeeper-batter, but to his surprise, Pant charged down the ground with nimbe feet and thrashed him through the wide of mid off region. The ball raced away to the cushions like a tracer bullet and the Twitterverse lauded the left-hander’s courage.

Too good

WOW

Beast

Pure audacity

Bang bang

Unreal

Great onw

True

Pant charges

Legend

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