‘I have five girlfriends in my bag but only 1 in real life’: Manish Pandey discloses love for his bats
Manish also revealed his own set of superstitions which he follows.
Manish also revealed his own set of superstitions which he follows.
Mukesh picked up four wickets in five overs and consequently left the Karnataka tail just too much to do. All of this within the first hour of the day's play and there simply had to be just one winner from there- Bengal.
It will be an interesting battle between the Bengal pacers and the likes of Rahul, Karun Nair, Manish Pandey and 19-year-old Devdutt Padikkal.
Shreyas Iyer and Shivam Dube failed to accelerate as well as they would have liked but a good little cameo from Manish Pandey in the last few balls somehow propelled India to above 160.
An excellent fifty from Manish Pandey powered India to 165 for 8 in 20 overs. Pandey scored runs 50 runs off 36 balls. His blitzkrieg included 3 fours.
Bumrah bowled the penultimate over giving away just 4 runs. Following him, Shardul Thakur conceded just 6 runs in the final over to force a Super Over.
Manish Pandey couldn't contribute much with the bat in the three ODIs as the top-order, got the job done for India in the last two matches against Australia.
Rahul, the highest-ranked India batsman, has gained 26 points is now on 760 rating points, just six behind Australia's Glenn Maxwell after scores of 45 and 54 in his two innings against Sri Lanka.
At a stage, India were 164 for 6 and were looking to be bundled out, but Manish Pandey’s 31* off 18 balls along with Thakur’s 22* off 8 took the Men in Blue to 201 in 20 overs.
In 2008, Kohli steered a side featuring Ravindra Jadeja and Manish Pandey to overall victory in Malaysia, leading by example and making a superb hundred in the group stage against the West Indies.
