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[Watch] When Rishabh Pant Hit Famous Winning Runs At Gabba To Breach Australia's Fortress

image-lrkkmn2mWhen Pant hit the winning runs at Gabba [x.com]

Rishabh Pant's legacy-defining moment for Team India arrived on this day (January 19) three years ago, as the extravagant wicketkeeper-batter smashed a legendary 89 in his team's successful run-chase to breach the fortress of 'Gabba'. 

Pant played his magnum opus knock amidst the sternest of adversity and helped India gun down the imposing 328-run target versus the Australians in the series-deciding Test of the summer at the daunting venue, where the hosts hadn't lost a Test match in 32 years.

But the explosive Indian left-hander managed to eclipse the great mountain for his team with a tremendous effort, his best knock of the series reserved for the final showdown of the highly demanding 2020-21 trip Down Under.


When Pant Hit The Winning Runs At Gabba 

The match-winner struck eight fours and a solitary maximum during his great innings, but it was the one hit to secure the winning runs that will stay with him for the rest of his life while also being etched in every Indian cricket fan's memory and heart.

Facing tall Aussie speedster Josh Hazlewood with another three runs required off the 20 balls remaining on Day 5 in Brisbane, Pant took the pacer's attempted yorker on the full and dispatched it through the vacant long-off region to complete what is remembered as India's greatest series win.

Given the obstacles the Indian team faced after undergoing pre-series quarantine amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and heaps of injuries, to be able to then overcome the embarrassing '36 all out' in Adelaide with wins in Melbourne and Brisbane while exhibiting great resolve in a draw in Sydney remains a victory unparalleled in India's cricket history.

Pant was one of the leading heroes of this remarkable achievement. After missing the first Test in Adelaide, the youngster smashed 274 runs in his five innings at a strike-rate touching 70 against one of the finest attacks in the world.