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Rishabh Pant answered his critics successful the champion imaginable mode with a stroke-filled 81 arsenic India were connected people for a mammoth archetypal innings score, reaching 475 for 6 against Afghanistan astatine luncheon connected the 2nd time of the one-off Test, successful Mullanpur connected Sunday (June 7, 2026).
In-front of a sparse Sunday (June 7, 2026) crowd, Pant did play his signature strokes but besides curbed his earthy instinct to spell aft each delivery, treating each shot connected its merit during his 121-ball sound that had six boundaries and 3 sixes.
He should person completed his period but debutant left-arm spinner Nangeyalia Kharote, who abruptly slowed the gait considerably. Pant charged down the way but couldn't afloat scope to the transportation of the transportation arsenic the lofted deed ballooned up for a elemental catch.
For Afghanistan, their IPL prima Azmatullah Omarzai was distinctly unlucky. He was precise awesome with the 2nd caller ball, beating the bat connected a fig of occasions without overmuch luck.
In the archetypal hr of 2nd morning, Shubman Gill (126 disconnected 177 balls) was dismissed by Mohammad Saleem (4/109 successful 20 overs), who bowled a quality to get escaped of Indian skipper.
It was pitched connected fuller magnitude connected off-stump transmission drafting Gill guardant and past determination was a hint of outward question taking the borderline of his bat ending a 169-run stand.
Dhruv Jurel played a fewer beauteous shots quadrate of the wicket but Saleem got 1 to reverse arsenic Jurel decided to permission the shot connected magnitude lone to find his off-stump pegged back.
However 1 dismissal that near the assemblage precocious and adust was Pant's arsenic they were expecting immoderate much fireworks from him erstwhile the spinners came into operation.
Going into the luncheon break, Washington Sundar (14 batting) and debutant Manav Suthar (9 batting) were astatine the crease.
Scoreboard
India 1st innings: Yashasvi Jaiswal c Afsar Zazai b Mohammad Saleem 24 KL Rahul c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Ziaur Rahman 100 Sai Sudharsan c Afsar Zazai b Mohammad Saleem 81 Shubman Gill c Afsar Zazai b Mohammad Saleem 126 Rishabh Pant c Azmatullah Omarzai b Hashmatullah Shahidi 81 Dhruv Jurel b Mohammad Saleem 19 Washington Sundar batting 14 Manav Suthar batting 9 Extras: (B-4 LB-12 NB-4 W-1) 21
Total: (For 6 wickets successful 110 overs) 475
Fall of wickets: 1/41 2/180 3/247 4/416 5/452 6/456
Afghanistan bowling: Ziaur Rahman 22-2-87-1, Azmatullah Omarzai 19-4-54-0, Mohammad Saleem 20-2-109-4, Nangeyalia Kharote 21-0-96-0, Abdul Malik 7-0-43-0, Hashmatullah Shahidi 21-1-70-1.
