In the second innings of the Mumbai Test on Sunday, November 3, Rishabh Pant produced a hard-fought and aggressive fifty, continuing his excellent batting form for India. After an overwhelming collapse of the batting order on Sunday, Pant reached his fifty off just forty-eight balls to guarantee that India entered the lunch break at 92 for six. However, 10 balls after lunch, the Kiwis got the crucial breakthrough of star wicket-keeper batter but it started a massive debate on social media.
Rishabh Pant's controversial dismissal
In the second over after lunch, Pant was caught by Tom Blundell on the fourth ball of Ajaz Patel. However, the umpire called it a not out but players convinced Latham to take a review and go upstairs. The ball was really close to Pant's bat that was also brushing his pad. The snickometer showed a clear spike when the ball was passing by the bat but the controversial point was that Pant believed that the sound was from the bat hitting the pad and he had not edged the ball.
He was also seen having an animated chat with the on-field umpires. However, the final decision went against him and the Indian had to depart after a well-compiled 64-run knock of 57 balls. Pant made a disappointed walk back to the dugout.
India in a precarious situation
After losing the first five wickets for just 29 runs, Pant revived the Indian hopes to avoid a whitewash. He single-handedly raised India's chances to stop the Kiwis from clean-sweeping them but India needed 41 more runs a the time of Pant's departure and they were back in a precarious situation staring in the eyes of a potential whitewash.
