***Official*** India in South Africa 2021-22

[OverratedSanity]

Pant

 

[eroticfishcake]

Pant throwing the bat literally

 

[Spark]

Pant

genuinely amazed that ended up a dot ball, rather than caught somewhere or skewing down to the boundary for four somehow

 

[Spark]

now he's ended up literally at point

 

[OverratedSanity]

DId Pant try to ground his bat across the wide tramline?

 

[slippy888]

Not playing the 7th batsman cost us this test match

 

[Arachnodouche]

Hating everyone from Kohli on down so much atm. This could've been something even more special from Pant today.

 

[ashley bach]

I'd be genuinely interested to see which (proper) series were more bowler-dominated than this one.

surely you know the answer to this if you think about it, not even close.
clue is that it was less than a year ago.
you can't fail.

 

[h_hurricane]

Not playing the 7th batsman cost us this test match

We only have 2 batsmen ffs.

 

[Spark]

surely you know the answer to this if you think about it, not even close.
clue is that it was less than a year ago.
you can't fail.

yeah no, that series had a test match in which england (repeat england) scored 550.

 

[honestbharani]

Has Pant batted well with the tail? This is the first time Iam seeing him with the tail.

Not really... None of our batters are actually that good at batting with the tail coz the tail does not really end up batting all that much anyways. You need them to be able to defend 2 or 3 balls an over in order for any batsman today to actually do a decent job of batting with the tail and we have 3 to 4 #11s every game.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The line to the right handers has provided so much more bounce to the bowlers. Not seen many climb when they've bowled to Pant. Reckon Elgar is going to be key again. Its not that treacherous relatively speaking to the lefties imo.

 

[cnerd123]

Some luck going our way finally

Do they literally have 9 on the fence for him?

 

[Spark]

if india do manage to win this game, they should give a shout out for a strong contribution from x. tras, coming off a solid year for the english batting order too

 

[WpGuy]

Still here, SA still need to pick a spinner... still not nonsense. 4 fast bowlers weakening the batting because you don't want to make a choice between Olivier and Jansen, still terrible selection. Not first time this has happened, nor will it be the last no matter how many times SA has been bitten by the stupidity of it all.

maharaj dropped the game, extra batsmen no spinner.

 

[ashley bach]

yeah no, that series had a test match in which england (repeat england) scored 550.

yeah that's right, but what about the other 7 innings?
surely in the context of ''series dominated by ball'' you have to look at the larger picture?
for me this series was dominated by the ball like no other in a long time.

 

[Spark]

yeah that's right, but what about the other 7 innings?
surely in the context of ''series dominated by ball'' you have to look at the larger picture?
for me this series was dominated by the ball like no other in a long time.

yeah, no.

 

[Calm_profit]

200 lead finally!

 

[h_hurricane]

Immense innings from Pant ! 200 at least keeps India in the game by the skin of the teeth. Need more though.

 

[Kirkut]

Apologies for comparing Pant with Afridi. He's more like an erratic version of Gilchrist.