Rishabh Pant survived ‘Diamond Duck’ in debut match as captain
Indian star wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant captained Team India for the first time, but he could not win the team. South Africa won the first match of the five-match T20I series by 7 wickets. In this match played in Delhi, Rishabh Pant made a lot of runs with the bat.
Rishabh Pant, who came to the field with a bat after two wickets, played an innings of 29 runs facing 16 balls. During this, Pant also hit 2 sixes and the same number of fours. Pant’s strike rate was 181.25. However, in the debut match as captain, Pant narrowly escaped being the victim of a diamond duck. For this he also clashed with two African fielders.
Pant clashed with two African fielders like this
Actually, this incident happened on the first ball of the 13th over of the Indian innings. Then Rishabh Pant came to the field as a new player and was standing on non-strike without playing any ball. Then Shreyas Iyer defended the ball of Kagiso Rabada. Pant ran for one run and had come to half the crease. Then Iyer refused and started returning, when Pant first clashed with the bowler Rabada.
In this way, Pant survived the hunt for Diamond Duck
After confronting Rabada, Pant recovered and started returning again, then he clashed with another African fielder and reached the crease while falling. This second fielder picked up the ball and threw it on the stump, but missed the runout. In this way, Rishabh Pant was saved from being a victim of a diamond duck in his very first match as a captain. When a batsman gets out without playing any ball and without scoring a run, then he is called a victim of Diamond Duck.
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Team India lost by 7 wickets
Actually, batting first after losing the toss in the match, Team India scored 211 runs for 4 wickets. Ishan Kishan played an innings of 76 runs in 48 balls. In reply, South African team lost 3 wickets and scored 212 runs in 19.1 overs and won the match by 7 wickets.
