Rishabh Pant hails team’s fighting spirit

Bengaluru, June 19

India captain Rishabh Pant hailed the fighting spirit of the side after the hosts came back from two games down to take the five-match series against South Africa into the decider, which was washed out here today.

“It might get a little bit frustrating, but there are a lot of positives, especially the way the whole team showed character after the series was 0-2,” Pant said. “We are trying to find different ways of winning matches, we are trying to play in a new way. Mistakes will happen, but we are going the right way,” he added.

India head coach Rahul Dravid made it clear that the under-fire Pant is a “big” and “integral” part of the set-up heading into the T20 World Cup in Australia. Pant managed only 58 runs in the series. “Personally, he would have liked to score a few more runs but it is not concerning him. Certainly, he is a very big part of our plans going ahead in next few months,” Dravid said.

Medium-pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who took six wickets for 85 runs with a best of 4/13, was named the Player of the Series.