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Indian wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant did not have a good start with the gloves on Day 1 of the ongoing third Test against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).
Pant dropped two catches within a span of three overs and granted two lifelines to the Australian debutant Will Pucovski.
During the 21st over of Australia’s first innings, Pant dropped a regulation catch off Ravichandran Ashwin’s bowling.
Then in the 25th over, Pant put down another chance when Mohammed Siraj bowled a short delivery to Pucovski. The Aussie opener got hurried due to the pace, and the red-leather got off the glove, but Pant spills it out while running back to grab it. Though the soft signal on the field was ‘out’, but later it was reversed.
Meanwhile, Pucovski went on to score a half-century. However, soon another debutant Navdeep Saini sent Pucovski back to the pavilion in the 35th over. The young Aussie played a 110-ball 62 run knock. After the end of day’s play, Australia have posted 166/2 with Marnus Labuschagne (67 not out) and Steve Smith (31 not out) at the crease.
Pant’s back-to-back drops didn’t go down well with fans on Twitter as they went on to criticise the Indian keeper for his mistakes.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Fielding is costing in the past hour in this
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath)
is Kamran Akmal of India.
— King in the North 🐺 (@skywalker8901)
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You can’t drop catches like these
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
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Rishabh Pant kee♏ps proving to us time & again as to how bad he is behind the stumps !!! Definitely not good sings for India and they need to look for alternate options like Ishan, Samsun for fu💫ture !
— Vikrant Moily (@IamVikrantMoily)
Two Catches dropped by Rishabh Pant ma🎶y pꦿrove costly.
— Jayess (@Sootradhar)
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Rishabh Pant is a terrific combo of some of all time greatest players.
He bats like Dhoni,He has fitness like Rohit, and catches like✨ Kohli.— Satya Chaudhary (@satyagodara)
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Since the start 🎐of 2018, Rishabh Pant averages 0.86 dropped catches per Test played.
Of all keepers to play 10 matches in that time, Pant's drops-per-Test record is the worst.
— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst)
After Seeing Rishabh Pant Dropped Two Catches…
Wriddhiman Saha Rn –
— Jethalal (@Jethiya_lal)
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Saha after watching Rishabh Pant dropping catcheꦛ♎s:-
— Prince Prabhakar (@Dhoni_Dhoni7)
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