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‘A different conversation…’: Marco Jansen speaks about Rishabh Pant’s execution changing the match outcome for India
Indian team posted a low first innings total against South Africa in Guwahati, to which Marco Jansen said Rishabh Pant's shot selection might have led to a different outcome.
Last Updated on - November 24, 2025 9:01 PM IST
Indian team posted a below average score in their first innings against South Africa during the Guwahati Test, and captain Rishabh Pant is getting a lot of flak for his poor shot selection against Marco Jansen but the Proteas wrecker-in-chief reckons had the flamboyant keeper got his execution right, things might have turned out different.
Rishabh Pant gave Marco Jansen the breakthrough when India were reeling at 102 for 4. The tall South African bowler had kept the delivery short of length and the ball climbed on Pant, taking the edge into the keeper’s gloves.
“It’s not that things will always be going your way. So there are times where Rishabh Pant would have hit that one fifty rows back, straight back over my head and then we would be having a different conversation,” he told media when asked if he was surprised with Pant’s selection of shot.
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Marco Jansen might had realised early into the first innings of India that neither there was nip in the air nor off the surface movement, which would have forced him to try out bouncers. This was an idea that worked well for him on the third day.
Having taken South Africa close to 500 (489) with a superb 93 off 91 balls on day two, Marco Jansen starred with the ball as well, as he secured 6 wickets to his name for 48 runs in India’s paltry first innings score of 201.