Pant smashes 89-ball century!

July 01, 2022 22:13

India 251-5 (58 ovs) vs England | Scorecard

Pacer Broad is back into the attack. Pant clips the first ball off his hips to fine leg for a single.

Jadeja cuts the third ball but the fielder at point comes up with a diving stop to save some runs and drives the next into the covers.

A watchful Jadeja plays out the rest of the over as Broad concedes just a single in his 13th over.

Spinner Leach comes back into the attack. Pant pushes the second ball through square leg for a single and Jadeja takes one into the covers.

In the next over, Broad gets some sharp swing but the line is too wide to make Jadeja play. A few balls later, he drifts down the pads as Jadeja misses the glance but gets four leg byes.

In the next over, Pant comes down the track and swings Leach over midwicket for a four to take his score into the 90s.

He jumps down the track to the next ball and lofts it back over the bowler's head for another boundary, followed by a single to square leg to take his score to 97 and Jadeja takes one off the next to the fielder at long-on.

Pant sweeps the last ball to fine leg for another run to inch closer to his hundred.

Broad bowls it short as Pant pulls it to fine leg and rushes back for the second to race to his century from 89 balls.

A terrific knock under pressure from the young left-hander as he counter-attacked to bring India back in the contest.

This is Pant's fifth Test century, with four of them coming away from home.

Pant pulls the next ball to deep square leg for another run before Jadeja steers a wide delivery past the slips for a four to raise the 150-run stand from 182 balls.

Jadeja pushes the fourth ball to mid-on for a single to bring up his fifty from 109 balls, and he celebrates in his trademark style by swirling his bat like a sword.

Broad keeping it short to Pant, who pulls it to deep square leg for just a single and Jadeja clips the last ball for another run as 10 come from the over.

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