{"id":1220499,"date":"2025-01-04T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=1220499"},"modified":"2025-01-04T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:39:26","slug":"watch-rishabh-pant-brutalizes-scott-boland-opens-his-account-with-huge-six-in-second-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/watch-rishabh-pant-brutalizes-scott-boland-opens-his-account-with-huge-six-in-second-innings-1220499\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rishabh Pant BRUTALIZES Scott Boland, opens his account with huge six in second innings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant came out to bat with the visitors looking in a spot of bother at 59\/3, having just lost star batter Virat Kohli. Despite being under massive pressure, the 27-year-old opened his account with a big six down the ground on the first ball he faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1\">The video of Pant\u2019s first-ball six off Scott Boland\u2019s bowling went viral on social media within no time. Pant\u2019s six off Boland was the seventh instance of an Indian batter hitting a six off the first ball of an innings in Tests and only the second time that it happened in an away Test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data- data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aate hi RISHABH-PANTI shuru! \ud83d\udd25<br><br>When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RishabhPant17?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RishabhPant17<\/a> steps in, the entertainment level goes \ud835\udde8\ud835\uddfd&amp;\ud835\udde8\ud835\uddfd \ud83d\udcc8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvINDOnStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvINDOnStar<\/a> \ud83d\udc49 5th Test, Day 2 | LIVE NOW! | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ToughestRivalry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ToughestRivalry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BorderGavaskarTrophy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BorderGavaskarTrophy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tiJiuBOEDO\">pic.twitter.com\/tiJiuBOEDO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarSportsIndia\/status\/1875417449274994747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pant showed a completely opposite attitude than what he showed in the first innings of the Sydney Test. The 27-year-old batted quite sensibly, scoring 40 runs off 98 deliveries in the first innings and was the top-scorer for the Men in Blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wicketkeeper-batter came out to bat after Boland dismissed Kohli for just 6 runs on the first ball of the 14th over of India\u2019s second innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 27-year-old wasted no time in smacking the Australia pacer at the SCG and hit an incredible six off the very first ball of his innings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":1220522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[155,191,249,6414,144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WATCH: Rishabh Pant BRUTALIZES Scott Boland, opens his account with huge six in second innings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The India 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