{"id":17332,"date":"2025-07-24T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17332\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:08:10","slug":"india-dealt-blow-with-rishabh-pants-retirement-against-england-in-fourth-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17332\/","title":{"rendered":"India dealt blow with Rishabh Pant&#8217;s retirement against England in fourth Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rishabh Pant&#8217;s retirement through injury slowed India&#8217;s progress on day one of the fourth Test against England, with the tourists reaching stumps on 4-264.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">With England eyeing a victory at Old Trafford that would seal a series win with one Test to spare, the hosts put India in to bat in overcast Manchester conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But India cruised through to lunch untroubled on 0-78.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Three wickets in the afternoon session cost just 36 runs, including India captain Shubman Gill, swinging momentum back in England&#8217;s favour before tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England spinner Liam Dawson picked up his first Test wicket in eight years when he had opener Yashasvi Jaiswal caught for 58.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-23\/shubman-gill-india-england-spirit-of-cricket\/105562100\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit of cricket in spotlight after Lord&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">England&#8217;s time-wasting tactics during the Lord&#8217;s Test prompt India captain Shubman Gill to question if they were playing &#8220;in the spirit of the game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">As he often does, the entertaining Pant upped the ante after tea by playing a number of flamboyant shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">However, his innings was halted abruptly when he retired hurt on 37, having taken a blow on the foot trying to reverse sweep Chris Woakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sai Sudharsan&#8217;s maiden Test 50, a patient knock that took 134 balls to achieve, had already taken India past 200 before he got a hook shot all wrong to fall for 61.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England could not make any further inroads, leaving the Test finely poised going into day two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sudharsan said India was hoping for the best in regard to Pant&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We will get more information tomorrow, but if the injury is serious, obviously it is a big blow,&#8221; Sudharsan told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;He was batting really well today, so we will really miss out if he doesn&#8217;t come back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We will have to do our best to negotiate the loss if he doesn&#8217;t, we have plenty of batting and all-rounders to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">India&#8217;s experienced Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur will both resume on 19 on day two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rishabh Pant&#8217;s retirement through injury slowed India&#8217;s progress on day one of the fourth Test against England, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,740,1208,16285,1209,5752,14674,10535,85],"class_list":["post-17332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-fourth-test","tag-india","tag-manchester","tag-old-trafford","tag-rishabh-pant","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}