{"id":260893,"date":"2025-07-13T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260893\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:29:10","slug":"ind-vs-eng-3rd-test-out-nahin-hona-hain-rishabh-pant-prods-himself-to-battle-through-pain-barrier-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260893\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs ENG 3rd Test: ‘Out nahin hona hain’ – Rishabh Pant prods himself to battle through pain barrier | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"INDIndia’s Rishabh Pant celebrates after scoring fifty runs day four of the second cricket test match between England and India at Edgbaston in Birmingham, England, Saturday, July 5, 2025. (AP Photo\/Scott Heppell) London: Half an hour prior to the start of India\u2019s innings on Friday afternoon, Rishabh Pant<\/a> headed to the practice area at Lord\u2019s. He batted for a good 30 minutes in the nets.The practice area is adjacent to the main ground here and many spectators thronged the area. One of the fans screamed, \u201cPant bhai , are you okay?\u201d Pant, who was getting ready to face another delivery, replied, \u201cTry kar raha hoon. Woh hi check kar rahe hain (I\u2019m trying. That\u2019s what I\u2019m checking).\u201d<\/p>\n

KL Rahul press conference: On last over fight, Rishabh Pant run out and fired up Shubman Gill<\/p>\n

Pant\u2019s left index finger, which took a blow from a Jasprit Bumrah<\/a> delivery on the first day of the match, was still hurting. With every shot in the nets, he was heard grunting cuss words. The concerned throwdown specialists and support staff tried to ask him if he was in pain. Pant warned them sternly, \u201cNobody will ask me about the pain. If I\u2019m saying I\u2019m fine, that means I\u2019m fine.\u201dEven as Pant went about constructing another crucial innings of 74 for India on Saturday morning, it was evident that the pain had not subsided. Every shot that got the bottom hand into play brought a grimace to his face.Pant\u2019s greatest motivator is himself. He keeps talking to himself about how the game is moving. A week before he left to play the U-19 World Cup in Jan 2016, TOI had visited one of his practice sessions at the Sonnet Club in Delhi. While he was practicing his range hitting on a rough patch of the ground, he kept reminding himself, \u201cOut nahin hona hain (don\u2019t get out).\u201d<\/p>\n

Poll<\/p>\n

Do you think Rishabh Pant’s self-talk is an effective strategy for him during matches?<\/p>\n

Talking to himself has always been Pant\u2019s defence mechanism. \u201cI always talk a lot to myself. You get to know about it because the stump mic catches it. My late coach Tarak Sinha taught me to keep talking to yourself. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing since childhood. It helps me a lot,\u201d Pant had said.He once told TOI that he loves to feel nervous before a game. One may have noticed that he used to have dry coughs when he took guard early on in his innings. That is again a part of his defence mechanism, to fight the jitters in his stomach.It\u2019s very difficult to decipher Pant\u2019s thought process. Perhaps his inner voice is the best option. On Saturday, he once again egged himself on to bat through pain and ensured India didn\u2019t fall behind in the Test early on Day Three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India’s Rishabh Pant celebrates after scoring fifty runs day four of the second cricket test match between England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,99923,99922,43158,11539,95794,22958,99921,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-player-mindset","10":"tag-ind-vs-eng-test-match","11":"tag-india-cricket","12":"tag-jasprit-bumrah","13":"tag-lords-cricket-ground","14":"tag-rishabh-pant","15":"tag-rishabh-pant-injury","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114844517448751082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}