{ "id": "70470", "author": "23", "cnmid": "0", "title": "'Biggest Thing In My Life': Rishabh Pant After Winning The Brisbane Test For India", "lang": "en", "series": "428", "cup_year": "2021", "article_type": "General", "excerpt": "Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, whose dismissal for 97 through the rush of blood on the fifth day of the last Test in Sydney denied India a possible victory, on Tuesday stayed till the end on the f", "subtype": "", "editor1": "

Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, whose dismissal for 97 through the rush of blood on the fifth day of the last Test in Sydney denied India a possible victory, on Tuesday stayed till the end on the fifth day of the Gabba Test to ensure he saw India off to a historic win at the venue considered to be a fortress for Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The highest target chased at The Gabba before India surpassed 328 with three wickets in hand on Tuesday was 236, way back in 1951 by hosts Australia against West Indies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Over the next 70 years, although teams have made bigger fourth-innings score at The Gabba -- like 450 by Pakistan in 2016 -- no one has chased a fourth-innings target to win a game. Importantly, no team had beaten Australia in Brisbane in the last 32 years. The last time the Aussies lost a Test at The Gabba was against West Indies in 1988.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

So when Cheteshwar Pujara (56) was the fourth wicket dismissed with the score at 228 on Tuesday and India needed exactly a 100 to win, the odds were stacked heavily against them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n