Rishabh Pant is struggling to trouble the Aussies with the bat, this bowler has found a way to stop his rampage

Elite Indian Wicketkeeper Batsman Rishabh Pant once again failed to get going in the ongoing BGT Test-Series between India and Australia and fell prey to Pat Cummins. The problems of the Men in Blue have increased in the Gabba Test-Match and their chances of winning the match from here are looking very bleak.

The Indian Cricket Team is currently in big trouble in the third Test-Match of the ongoing 2024 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series versus the Australians. While the home side has managed to put up a big 1st inning score of 445 runs on the board, the Men in Blue are struggling out there in the middle, having lost four wickets for a score of just 51 runs. 

Once again, the Rohit Sharma-led team has suffered a top-order collapse. Apart from opening batter KL Rahul, no other player is able to settle down at the crease. The entire responsibility of saving the Gabba Test-Match is lying on the shoulders of skipper Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul. 

Meanwhile, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant is not having a good time in Australia and something has happened to him which had never happened to him before in his Test career. 

Australian captain Pat Cummins is getting the better of Rishabh Pant

Australian skipper Pat Cummins has emerged as a big problem for Rishabh Pant on the Cricket field. Notably, the fast bowler has managed to get the better of the Indian wicketkeeper batter on multiple occasions in the current series. Before this, he never succeeded to get the wicket of Pant. 

Talking about their H2H stats before the 2024 BGT series, Pant and Cummins had faced each other on 11 occasions. In these 11 occasions, Rishabh scored 91 runs versus the Aussie pacer and the 31-year-old had not found success in getting Pant out even once. 

But now, things have changed in a drastic manner. In the last five Test innings in which Pant and Cummins have faced each other, the latter had managed to score just 22 runs in 41 deliveries and he has also been dismissed by Cummins on three occasions in the current series. This means that the 27-year-old is becoming is becoming a constant victim of the Aussie skipper. 

Rishabh Pant's bat has not fired even once in the current BGT series

In the currently ongoing 2024 Border Gavaskar Trophy series, Rishabh Pant has failed to perform well and his bat has not shown the same kind of fear for which he is well known across the world. 

In the opening Test-Match in Perth, the 27-year-old managed to score 37 runs with the bat in the 1st inning and only a single run in the 2nd inning. Then in the Adelaide Test-Match, he scored 21 runs in the 1st inning and 28 runs in the following one. These scores show that he has not crossed the 50 runs mark even once in the current edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. 

The Southpaw has managed to get off to good starts but he has failed to convert those starts into big knocks. Even in the ongoing Gabba Test-Match, the former Delhi Capitals skipper got dismissed off the bowling of Pat Cummins, managing to score just nine runs in 12 deliveries.

Rishabh Pant will have to play important knocks if India want to have a chance of winning the series. 

This is the same Rishabh Pant who was batting tremendously well in the home New Zealand Test-Series, but as soon as he arrived in Australia, he has found it hard to score runs. However, Pant still has one inning in the Gabba Test and 2 Test-Matches left in the series where he can turn around his fortunes and India's fortunes as well. 

It remains to be seen how many runs the Southpaw manages to amass for the Men in Blue in the remaining contests. If the Indian Cricket Team want to win their 3rd consecutive BGT series in Australia, then Pant will have to find a way to rediscover his destructive form for which he is known and recognized in the world of Cricket. 

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